If you know what our old "back yard" used to look like, you know how painful this view could be for us. The photo above is of the back alley behind our house.
The positive side of this is that no one else uses this alley, so it has been basically all ours. Chalking, bubbles, bike riding, playing music and dancing. All ours (unless you count the servants/staff that look at us curiously from their rooftop quarters).
I've never lived in an apartment, short of for a period of time with "Nin'thia" when Terran was very small.
I grew up in the country ... on an expansive acreage where we had the run of our land as children. Even when I first moved out on my own, I still had my own place and didn't share my space with anyone. When Husb and I got married, we had a gorgeous piece of property with woods, a creek and an amazing back yard - all hidden from the rest of the neighborhood. Our plot in Ohio was not so remote, but still in the country, with room to run, plenty of acres for tearin' around and room to spread out.
Our "piece of green" here in Delhi is treasured, but teensy. I'm thankful for what we have, but I miss my green.
What matters though is that we are ALL still here together ::
[Hard to see, but Mia insisted on this particular chalk'ing day that we write out each member of our family on a different brick.]
