VISITING MY HOME

The trees in Santa Cruz Mountains are very tall... these are the trees in my side yard? ... They were right outside my window growing up.. I was on the side.. so side yard.

Living in Los Angeles for 5 years now makes me miss these trees sooo much! The last visit I decided to take some photos of my moms home inside and out.. I love going back to visit the little cabin in the woods that I grew up in..

Its funny how much I hated how far away I was from everything.. and now I would give ANYTHING to push the city away from me.

I will start outside on some things in my back yard.

first there is our old fireplace.. I believe we took it out when I was maybe 5 or 6.. and it is still in our yard.. My mom likes to treasure things.. Oh I am glad she does.

The fireplace was where my and my dolls would make dinner.. and my sister and her dolls would sit by the "fire" to keep warm.. It was a great thing to have in the yard.. and now it just looks cool.

There is a trail behind the fire.. covered in leaves because no human has traveled it in quite a few years. We used an old door as a bridge to cross over our creek and waterfall.

I didn't want to attempt to cross the bridge (door) as it would most likely cave in on first step. I think it was one of those hollow wood doors.. my mom always worried about us crossing it.. but we were little adventurists of course we were going to cross it.
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Then we had to travel up and around the stump to get to the top of the waterfall.. then there was a little creek with bunches of sticks after it would rain.. I remember always trying to build stick forts.. that was great fun!

Down from the waterfall a bit there was another steep trail down to the creek.. I would have gone down this one even though it was soo covered in leaves.. but.. then.. I saw what the leaves were hiding.. huge ugly spiders.. I didnt end up heading down to the creek..

Then there are just few things that my mom has around the yard..