ask any of my siblings

and they'll tell you that the best part of a new house is exploring the woods inevitably surrounding it.
Mary, Jack, Kathryn and I explored the creepy barn out behind Matt's new house, followed by a brief investigation of the woods. Later, Mary, Nichole and I returned to the woods, and played around in these giant cement trenches, the use of which is being debated. Was it a dairy farm? A chicken coop? Some strange form of irrigation?
Who knows? Do you know?
I cannot, for some reason, coax my pictures off the camera, but when I do, you are in for a treat.
Until then, here are some pictures from my sister Mary's camera.
She took most of the pictures, but I took some, too.
I love Canon cameras.


This is my baby sister Mary, the high school graduate. She is pointing at a junk pile.
This is Mary, and my cousin Nichole.

Can you tell that that is a basketball court?
We found many things in junk piles around the yard and within the trees.
Including several bathtubs, a stove, a fridge, and a hot water heater or two. (These were actually pretty far into the woods.)
Have you ever seen such leafy greenness anywhere else? I think we might live in the garden of Eden.

This is the barn from behind. It doesn't look creepy at all here.