I found a green place

I found a green place!
Today is the first full day in my new house alone (I know, I’m milking it, two days ago was my first official day in the long haul, that night was my first night in it, the next day was my first full day in it and my first night alone, and now today is my first day completely alone. What.) and me and judy just got back from a long enjoyable walk. We just walked up that dirt road I had seen past the goats and pigs, it didn’t go very far, and then climbed up the ridge at the end. We followed what must have been bighorn sheep trails, they were littered with poop and pretty well used. Once we were at the top, I was pretty winded. It was neat to see the different kinds of foliage that grows here, a lot of it is what I want to call baby’s breath, even though I’m sure it isnt’, just something similar. Tons and tons of little tiny white flowers, it looks like white shrubbery from a distance. Everything looks like shrubbery, either white (which turns out to be flowers), green, which turns out to be sage, or, usually, yellow, which is tumbleweeds, bramble-y things, goathead things, etc. Also there are somethings that are a bright yellow, which also turns out to be flowers. Anyway, once we got up there I thought maybe we could walk back towards the long haul and climb down from near it, so I was walking back the way we came, but maybe 100 feet or so above the dirt road (and the highway, which is always visible and audible) We didn’t get very far though when it started sloping down, too steep to climb down safely (I think, I might try again when I’m in better shape) but I saw judy perking up her ears and I thought she might see a sheep or something, so I stopped and listened and I heard water falling, and looked around, and sure enough there was a spring or something making a little tiny waterfall. This steep slope, I should try to clarify, was like….butt cheeks or something, it was steep straight down and then steep straight up again, and the waterfall was between the two, accompanied by a whole lot of plants, so I decided that since we couldn’t get there from above that we would try again from below. Once we got there there was a clearing with a lot of rocks, I don’t know if these clearings are something Terry did, or the highway makers did, or if it is natural, or what, just clearings full of piles of big and small rocks. So there was a pen of some sort and I could hear the water behind it, but I couldn’t get to it from around the pen, the plants were thick and tall! Like a place that wasn’t a desert or something! I went in the little pen and it was beautiful, I felt like Mary from the secret garden. I even now think maybe I’ll try to hang out in there a lot or something. Just lots of plants, and green. Sage was growing on the ground and the back was basically obfusicated by foliage of various types, I got the idea that maybe it had been a place where grapes were grown at one point, but who knows if that is true. I couldn’t get to the water, the plants were just too thick, judy and I were covered in cottony things and there were all sorts of bugs and some of the plants had thorns, but I could see water falling, with a big white pvc pipe coming out of the same place and off the water fall, but I feel like I didn’t see a pipe before, so there must be another one farther back and I intend to go find it, I just don’t know when or how…yet. I’m already thinking about putting my hammock in there. I need to hang it somewhere. Maybe from the trailer to the rock wall behind it? Another thing I’d like to mention about the long haul is that I have a lot of flies here and Judy and Juliette both think they are the best in the world, they seem to spend every waking minute stalking, pouncing, running around looking up, circling, snapping, etc. at these awful flies. Its enough to make you want to pull your hair out!