This blog was written September 23 2006
As you all know how I love to brag about the beauty of the area I live in. Fall is no exception to this, so tonight I decided to take a stroll down to the end of my street to another sort of street/path that borders a bushy, overgrown little forest that edges the river. It is one of my favorite places to walk when I need to de-stress or just feel at peace. And, as I said, it is especially beautiful in autumn.
About halfway along this cute little wooded area, if you walk in a little ways, you come to a clearing where lies an old (probably haunted), abandoned mansion. The story is, it was left in a hurry, never sold and everything inside is as it was the day the occupants took off. Creepy. And cool at the same time.
If I had any sense of adventure or didn't have irrational fears of bears, monsters and Emily Rose, I'd love to go late night exploring with a flashlight and of course, my camera!
So, while it's still daylight, I continue on my trek down the end of the steet, and I pause at a home and wonder, what kind of people live in a yard where they dangle or put all sorts of weird things on their trees? Including a ceiling fan. I'd like to meet them. Maybe.
I continue "across the tracks" a.k.a. "the Emerson ghetto". Here I spy all kinds of lawn ornaments or human facsimiles. I love those fat one-dimensional bent over farmer people.
I bravely move forward, as this yard intrigued me alot and I was so glad I had my camera along or I would not have gotten this shot of cardboard Santa, some elf dude, some baking chic, and little troll guy. I would have gotten more of the interesting home-made, metal, cardboard animals and odd tire-art in the rest of the eccentric, oddball yard, but I suddenly heard someone lurking in the workshop and figured I better get the hell out of there before they weld me into one of their one-dimensional farmer ladies.
I raced back home from my exciting little excursion, and back to reality to the sight of my own backyard and wondered....WHO IN THE BLUE HECK IS GONNA HELP ME RAKE ALL THESE LEAVES???!!!
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