Minah League Baseball?

I really need to figure out a way to take my camera on walks...  In fact, I should just get in the habit of taking it everywhere!
This morning Oreo and I had an eerie walk.  The park was deserted (or so it seemed) which is odd because there are always at least some children at the playground if not hordes of people out on the ball fields.  At first I thought this would be nicely peaceful but it got weird fast.
When we rounded the corner into the park I noticed there were no cars in the parking lot (usually it's full to overflowing).  I scanned the edge of the park near the garden and over to the horseshoe pits and I could see a couple of people in the picnic shelter (I always assess every situation before continuing after many years in a dangerous neighborhood... it's just habit, I suppose).  Oreo and I continued on and at the first ball field there were a bunch of crows.  Oddly, they were set up to play ball.  There were a few in the dugout, one at the plate, catcher, pitcher, all the bases were covered, they had the outfield and even a shortstop hovering between second and third.  It struck me as really funny and I stopped to watch what they would do (as if the game would begin?) but they didn't do anything.  They hardly moved at all, in fact.  (I felt like they were waiting for me to leave.)  I glanced over at the picnic shelter to see if the other people were watching this as well but they were gone.  I just wish I'd had my camera!!
We continued on our walk.  That strange sense of vulnerability in an abandoned outdoor area was creeping in on me.  I started noticing maintenance equipment scattered here and there (lawn mowers, weed whackers, garbage carts, etc.) but still no people.  It was just a little unnerving but I still wasn't completely creeped out (yet).  Oreo didn't seem to sense my unease so we just continued walking.
As we passed the playground (usually loud and full of kids) I noticed a woman and two small dogs just up ahead.  Oreo generally likes meeting other dogs his size (usually barks at the grown-ups but likes sniffing the dogs) but occasionally the other dogs are not as eager to have their butts sniffed.  So I looked at our options in case we needed to avoid them.  The woman leashed one of her dogs and picked up the other one so I figured she knew what she was doing.  I was going to take Oreo around the long way so they could continue unimpeded.  But then I saw shiny confetti on the ground (probably from a birthday party at the playground or something) and got distracted BUT ONLY FOR A SECOND.  When I looked up they were gone.  I swear they just vanished into thin air!  There was nowhere for them to have gone.  The park is wide open at that spot.  There's a gully on one edge and fields in all directions.  They were nowhere to be seen.  They just completely disappeared.  I don't know what happened to the people in the picnic shelter, either, but it hadn't struck me as odd at the time.  I did a 360 turn, looking for evidence of the lady and her dogs.  I glanced over at the crows who were still eyeing me suspiciously, waiting to begin their game.  I scanned the grounds at the abandoned maintenance equipment and got a chill.  Oreo and I beat it out of there before we were somehow sucked into the mind of Stephen King.
I believe it's a good day to stay in and take care of business at home.  Enough strange things happen anyway so we don't need to go looking for trouble!