Today it was around 70 and sunny and just beautiful. My older 2 kids (8 & 6yo) and I went on a nature walk in the afternoon. We've had a ton of rain lately so it was so nice to see the sun and enjoy the warm weather! We first decided to follow the run-off that goes through our back yard. Normally there's not water in it but with all the rain we've had lately, there was rain there. We followed it as it crossed over the road 2 times and headed towards the river that is near here. The kids thought it was great fun to see where it would dump out into the river.
As we walked along we enjoyed looking at all the mushrooms along the way. We found some pretty beautiful and large mushrooms. We brought our paper and colored pencils and all drew some of them for our nature journal. We also brought our camera along to take some pics which I posted on my nature blog here.
In following the run-off we found a new great place to get down by the river. It was a beautiful spot with a small island just off the shore and the trees changing colors. We also saw a big mound of dirt in one spot that must have been an anthill of some kind. There were lots of pine needles sprinkled on top. We got bit by a couple of ants so we didn't stay there too long!
All in all it was a wonderful, productive walk in God's beautiful, incredible creation!
• Tue 9 Oct 2007 - Untitled Comment