A Walk Around Our Neighborhood

This is a long post, but there are just lots of pictures.  :)

I love our neighborhood.  It's nice and calm and quiet, but people are friendly when you pass by and want to get to know you when you're playing at the park or walking the dog.  I love that we have tons of trees around us, it's relaxing, and lots of room to run and play outside.

This is where we live.  It's a little condo community.

This is our backyard.  When you walk up a short sidewalk outside of our front door (the opposite direction that Emily's going in the picture above), you come to this huge grassy area that's perfect for playing ball, having a picnic, running in circles,  or doing just about anything else you could imagine.

There's this great walkway that goes all the way around it, perfect for walks.

On the one side of the field there are the condos, and on the other side there's this ravine-type thing that runs the whole length.  It has lots of trees in it and a little stream in the bottom (there was probably more water back in the day), and there are lots of sticks and rocks and who knows what kinds of bugs or frogs or whatnot.  I bet little boys love to explore down there!

At the end of the field, there's a little playground that Emily loves.  It's simple but keeps her entertained, and sometimes we'll bring her sand toys and build things.

We usually take two walks a day, once around the field, and the other one around this great pond/stream-type thing that's in another section of our condos.  All we have to do is cross the street and go behind the other houses and we can see little waterfalls, bridges, and rocks with turtles hanging out on them.  Emily likes to make them dive into the water.  I didn't realize how big the pond was until we got the dog and started exploring more.  It goes almost the whole length of the street.

And since this post is already so long, I might as well throw in a few more pictures of Emily from our walk.  :)  Come and visit us!