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Photos: Wednesdays on the Delaney Park Strip

It's Wednesday evening at the Delaney Park Strip, and from traffic-packed A Street to peaceful P Street, Anchorage's oldest park is bustling.

The evening begins quietly enough. A hard rain came late in the afternoon, but by 5:45 it's no more than a drizzle, although the swollen, gray clouds obscuring the Chugach Mountains to the east are the definition of ominous.

A handful of people gather under an awning on Ninth Avenue between H and I streets. It's the second-to-last week for Yoga in the Park, a free program offered on Wednesday by The Alaska Club.

It looks like the threat of rain will keep people away. But here come two women on bicycles, rolled-up mats strapped to their backs. Then comes a mother pushing a stroller. Then a man and a woman, mats tucked under their arms.

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