[Personal] Do you ever miss a place where you have lived for a long time? 😞

I lived in this solitary place for nearly twelve years. I say solitary because while the place was huge and on twenty acres. It was also extremely remote. Plenty of area for quiet contemplation without interruption.

Where I live now it's oh so busy and noisy. 🙀

And I am not referring to all the kids!

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As a side note to those interested in cooking. My recipe for vegetarian approved beef liver is posted in my personal food photoboard:

https://similarworlds.com/DeWayfarer/photo?pid=1230108&rid=474182

Very few like liver so this is not a general post.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I miss the farm where I was born and lived the early years of my life. The house and barn were razed so they don’t exist. But the pastures, farm pond, fields and creek and other places remain. I have looked for images on Google Earth.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti I have done that myself. Memories.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer I lived east of this city in a rural area when I was a teen. My sister and I walked in the woods next to the house one winter and found a small cedar tree sapling, about a foot high. We went and got a shovel and dug it up and planted in our yard. I can see it on Google Earth now, it has gotten huge. Surprised no one cut it down since the house was sold in the early 90’s. The house isn’t even there any more but they brought in a mobile home and the tree is still there.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti this is what it was like where I lived and grew up. Notice the fields and groves that are no longer there. In fact no groves of any kind in all of Orange county. 😞

Nothing there now is the same. Not even the darn freeway. Even the freeway itself has changed. :(

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@DeWayfarer yeah I visited Orange County last year, I saw no orange groves there. Sad isn’t it?

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

@cherokeepatti More than sad. A couple of months ago I heard that the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove was bought by the Catholic Church.

Where that Cathedral stands was once a walnut grove. My father and I picked walnuts from that grove every year and we made brownies with them.

So many memories. So many. 😕