Exploring

We've decided it's time we start exploring our area a little more. 

(We've only lived here 4.5 years)

We took advantage of a relatively cool morning and headed off on a trail near our house with the kids.

It's and old railroad track that has been converted into a trail.  We bumped into one of the volunteers who maintains the trail and he was fun to talk to.  Looking at how tall the trees along the tracks were, and how some of the large trees had literally grown over the rails, we figured the railroad hadn't been used in a hundred years. 

Wrong.

Closer to 40 years, give or take.  Apparently it's true, trees DO grow freakishly fast on the East coast.

It was fun to spend the morning together, away from the house (and all the crazy projects we get ourselves into).

We even feel a little more "local".

(I should probably apologize for my awesome phone-pics mixed in with Seth's real pictures...they are definitely not as pretty!)