"Please Enjoy this Public Way" and We Did

I took this picture on October 12th, during a late afternoon walk here in Beverly, MA.  We walked along Lothrop Street, between Independence Park and Dane Street Beach.  Lothrop is a residential street with amazing ocean-front homes.  But the city of Beverly had the wisdom to create several "public ways" along between the houses, one every block or so.  Each "public way" is like a little garden, with benches, flowers, a path, and stairs down to the beach. And each is marked with a sign saying, "Please Enjoy this Public Way." And we did. The weather was great, the sea was shining, and the sky was beautiful, so I took this picture. Tonight I cropped the original photo to get this composition.