Near where Tobi and I live is "The Dead End". It's an area of overgrown park/woodlands at the end of Third Avenue and continues down and east to the North Creek Park Boardwalk. It's a beautiful area, and is a nice little scenic route between our two houses.
Our area of the world is full of marshes, which can have everything from Beavers to Snakes to Blue herons. Our Boardwalk has been around since we were about eight and is a wonderful area for getting in touch with nature. Of course, it's not exactly for the faint of heart. Slightly dilapidated, there are patches where, in the rainy months (or, essentially, all year), the water will periodically and startlingly cascade over the edge of the boardwalk, sending walkers fleeing to the raised edges, and the occasional snake will poke his head through the slates like a tiny green periscope.  |
| Tobi and Harvey venture into the woods. |
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| Don't go into the light! |
The woods themselves are a wonderful, storybook-like tangle off uneven, overgrown paths and greenery. It all completes back at 3rd Ave., where a broken, old, disused street, slowly being overgrown with blackberry bushes and ferns, connects back to the main road. It's one of the best walks in the world and I hope it never gets developed.
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| Tobi walks into a lit fairy-ring. |
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