Nostalgic trip around "The Loop"

Nolan Elijah & I spent the afternoon recently playing at Eagle Fern Park. We found a huge mushroom, petite wild flowers proving Spring was upon us, the boys spied on birds, of course skipped a good hundred rocks, played on the playground, and we took a great hike. Had the whole park to ourselves. It was warm out, smelled so fresh, and sounded refreshing.

After our play was done we loaded up in the car & headed up the road to George (where I grew up) . .

a couple miles up the old firestation & old barn announced we have arrived.

Took tons of pics from around the loop. Lots of wonderful memories up there! Here is a pic of my childhood home, which was always painted yellow with white trim.
The common observation while driving the 13 mile loop I called home 2nd grade on up . . . was the land that once was forest was now logged and/or young starter trees and the properties that were once logged clearings are now tall lush forests. Amazing. It is so refreshing to drive up there because, for now, there hasnt been a bunch of new development. Just an occasional new home but miles & miles of country land, tree farms, berry fields, host pastures & forests. LOVE it!

Alan and I really look forward to moving to a little farm of our own someday so our kids can experience all we got to growing up. Feeding baby goats with nippled glass pepsi bottles, shoveling stalls, horseback riding, gardening, pulling tansey, picking berries, fetching farm fresh eggs from the nests, and all the wonderful EXPLORING the surrounding lands. Note: I go to Feed Stores because I miss the general smells of farm life. No joke.