A walk around the neighborhood

Diana and Ben took a walk on Saturday while Emily baked bread. It was a usual foggy afternoon in Hidden Valley, but they took lots of pictures anyways. There is a nice loop from the house, up the hill to the swimming pool at Rainbow Ridge, through the container yard and then back through Hidden Valley by the lower road. Diana enjoys riding in her baby-backpack as long as you keep walking. Stopping to take pictures gets some quiet complaints.

The container yard is always interesting in the fog, although it can get muddy from the trucks. The trucks load and unload and gather into the twice-daily convoys down to the Lowlands. (The main geology offices are just up the road from the container yard, but Ben works at the Underground offices which are close to the mine.) All the electircal poles & boxes in town are painted orange to comply with the mining regulations which can make for fun colors in some of the more drab areas of the mine. The last picture is of the playground and the cafe/market/gym across the road from our house.

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