Some places I would play if I were still young and spry....

[chochiyo_sama]

Every time I go past these places (on the north route to Owatonna), I think about how much I would love to be about 10 years old and able to play.  Adults don't get to just play.  We are too concerned with looking silly and wasting time better spent doing important things like cleaning the toilet. 

But I still think about playing.  I loved to play near any kind of water.  And I especially liked it if there were trees clustered around the water. 

 

A little further down the road and around the curve is another cool spot.

 

I would have especially loved that big old tree sort of collapsed over the water.  I'd have been straddling that, pretending it was a horse or dangling a piece of string in the water pretending to be fishing.







These lovely horses on the other side of the road would have been a bonus. I would have been hanging over the fence offering them succulent grasses and apples.




This is the creek along side the horse pasture.  I suppose there are leeches in it.  There usually are.  But I would have waded in it anyhow.

Comments

[the_godiva]

This isn't the one with the headstone. (For the beloved horse or cow that died right there in that spot.)

I think the reason adults don't play is we're afraid of getting hurt. When we're really young we think nothing of running and falling down.

I can see that tree in the summer with a rope, swinging over the creek and letting go.

There wouldn't be any leeches in the winter when it's frozen, would there? And aren't leeches only in still water, not running water?

Isn't that birdhouse a little low for a birdhouse?

[chochiyo-sama.livejournal.com]

Nope--this is several miles West of that spot.

It could be true about getting hurt--I know I am much more concerned about getting hurt now than I used to be because the injuries could be so much more devastating as I am more brittle now than I used to be.

The creek isn't very deep--knee at most. Probably closer to ankle in most spots.

I've experienced leeches in rivers before. Ugh.

The bird house is actually higher than it looks. You are seeing the edge of the road embankment. :)

Good Pictures!

[erynashley.livejournal.com]

Cheryl, I love love love trees when they are missing the leaves and you can see the trunk break out into smaller branches and then smaller ones off of that. And the contrast in the picture between the black looking trunk and then the white background. I want a tree to be my next tattoo on my leg!