A family of five is picnicking at a park in Cambridge, bickering over trivial things.

She remembered this crystal from years ago, when her family had picnicked on this very spot.

The mill's immediate vicinity was a bustling place where news was swapped, children played, families picnicked, friendships were forged and reinforced, and maybe a romance or two was sparked.

Grandmothers danced with toddlers as entire families, dressed in their best, picnicked at curbside stands offering curried goat and jerk chicken.

Amid the tombs and mausoleums of the Panteon Civil de Dolores, one of this city's largest cemeteries, families are picnicking.

"There's too much money involved," said George Ashby as he and his family picnicked over the weekend on the grounds of one of the housing projects.

A portrait of Andre Breton, surrounded by tribal masks in his Paris study, projects one set of values, while correctly groomed families picnicking on the grass at Eton project quite different qualities.

Outside, dogs snoozed next to their rapt owners; families picnicked on pizza, and parents rocked babies to sleep in strollers draped in American flags.

Teenagers lolled on the newly cut lawn, lazily reading Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a large Hispanic family picnicked on chicken salads in the shade.

When I visited, several families were picnicking, while small children splashed in the water of Crabtree Creek.