[Rain Man]

I found a couple of mansions today.

There's a neighborhood a couple of neighborhoods over from mine, and it's mostly mansions and mini-mansions. I've run through it a lot over the years, but usually just as a transit to get to a running trail. With the crowding on the trails and parks these days, I've started doing my runs in that neighborhood. Being a wealthy neighborhood, it's got ridiculously wide streets and very low density, so it's a good place to run.

So anyway, I was running around and there was a tiny little street that I've seen before, but I don't run it because it's a little street that just makes a loop. I'm sure I've run it a few times but I apparently wasn't paying much attention. Today I decided to do a quick loop, and I've been looking at the architecture a lot since I'm spending more time there. So I had my eyes open as I ran.

Wow. There were some pretty impressive places there. There were two mansions that were kind of jaw-dropping, among the fanciest places in the whole neighborhood. They're completely hidden in a mini-neighborhood that's inside a sub-neighborhood in a larger neighborhood.

Here's a peek through the trees at one of them before they unleashed the hounds on me.