El Granada, California always had the best mix of suburban housing mixed in with empty lots and huge groves of Eucalyptus trees. This created a great enviroment for kids to built tree houses, forts  and neighborhood jumps. The town is much more devleloped now, so I decided to pull from. Other tree forts and jumps have been destroyed purposedly in this new age of liability. However, a few of these old masterpieces survive, and a couple are still built and manage to stay alive for a while before being torn down by scared property owners and uptight dog walkers. Here are my thoughts that, yea, astronomy is pretty neat as an elitist kind of thing.

[caption id=”attachment_139” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”A smaller, closer to the ground fort with the big one just visible in the background.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_140” align=”aligncenter” width=”269” caption=”The big house up in the trees.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_141” align=”aligncenter” width=”224” caption=”Climbing Up. Much higher than it appears in the picture.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_142” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”View from inside.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_144” align=”aligncenter” width=”300” caption=”Ground fort, view from above. It has a rain cover and camo.”] [/caption]

[caption id=”attachment_143” align=”aligncenter” width=”224” caption=”One of the exits/entrances to the ground fort.”] [/caption]