El Camino In The Yard

This is El Camino Real, the path that will eventually guide you through a thick jungle into wondrous world of The 5th Side (hopefully without too much trip & fall)  

Geometry is fun. Most of this slate and cobblestones were here, underneath the asphalt (see posting May 2010). So we're finally piecing this windy path together.  It's actually the most satisfying kind of work. It's like playing Tetris and lifting weights at the same time.  

More satisfying than pinochle and taxes? 

at some point perhaps halfway through, we ran out of cobblestones.  Luckily, within a short walk of our place, there are decaying properties that hold the history of Philadelphia streets in their piles of rubble. Absentee landlords sit on these places, refusing to sell or fix them up -  in the hopes that the developments in nearby Northern Liberties will make them rich when they can sell them to condo developers.  Until then, we have vacant, abandoned lots all around us that do nothing but collect trash.  

Well, as they say, one man's trash is another man's cobblestone walkway...