beyond our back fence

If you climbed right up the bank of the left, you'd be in our back yard.  For some reason, we don't have a gate in the fence straight into Griffith Park - maybe out of some kind of feeling that we don't want to look too accessible? So we walk down the street, along past another few houses, and up into the park; or past a couple of houses up the street, and then slip down a different bank to a path that joins up with the ones that you see above.  After the early rains this winter, the grass has started to come through a startling shade of emerald green - subtitled yes, this is late December (and it's cold!  It's going to go down to 43 degrees tonight!  That's sweater and scarf weather, around here ...).