Shooting hoops at Donaldson Park (Photo: Arnold Clayton Henderson)

Where Phase I of the current Donaldson Park renovation redid just the center portion, Phase II moves to the two ends. Broadly, each end is getting more playing areas and more vegetation (native species at that!). Some elements are already completed, others in progress. Here, at the east end, two young men make their baskets on a basketball court that hadn’t been there. The parking area has been moved farther from the river (less flooding?). A thin asphalt walking path swings around it past wetland and river. With a planned adjacent restroom, and replantings, the east end of the park (abutting the tidal marsh and woods of The Meadows), should be both more usable and more natural. (Well, a reconstructed nature. The whole acreage was originally marsh, and you can’t turn it all back to that and still shoot baskets or run bases!) Keep watching.