Playground

[glatt]

We had empty, undeveloped lots on my street in my childhood, and they looked a lot like that, except without the equipment and with a few more trees. Even had the rock ledge poking up.

We'd run around, make little "forts" and ride bikes on the trails that we developed over time.

I'm a safety minded person, but my only pet peeve is stuff that looks safe if you don't give it any thought, but that has hidden dangers. A little cliff is actually not very dangerous at all, because it's hardwired into our DNA to avoid falling off cliffs. But monkey bars over blacktop is dangerous, because kids are gonna climb and fall and break stuff. There was a home made playground posted somewhere on the Cellar years ago, and I disapproved of that one because it encouraged climbing but had significant non-obvious falling hazards all over the place and hard ground underneath.