Finding the forest

.. the boys and I were feeling a little nature deprived, okay it was just me, so I convinced, I mean we decided to head out and find a forest today.

.. earlier in the week a woman at a park outing had told me she "lived in the hills surrounded by forest. " And I was like and where the heck is that and how do I get there ...

.. she explained it to me like I had been living here and would know places .. I nodded like I might all the while remembering key phrases to later type in to google maps.

.. so it was with those snippets we put together a let's go see what we can find adventure.

.. we were pleased to locate a treed space with way more birds then people.

.. we liked the idea that we were standing in the hills we had long looked at while driving toward Daddy's work

.. it felt good to chill near a babbling brook .. 

.. but the real fun unfolded when we decided to get in the water .. 

.. then we got back in the car and drove longer, down a two lane road, very rare these days, until we found another nature like setting .. this one a man made lake good for snacking at