Spring Walking

Some nature on our nightly walk.  We had our first thunderstorm of the spring season.  Once it passed we went for a puddle walk/ride.  Willow is really enjoying these walks and chatters and talks most of the way.  Eliot zooms on his bike and leads the way talking to all of the dog walkers we pass.  Our neighborhood is very quiet with very few kids but now we know most of our neighbors because of our little ambassador.  

Mourning doves singing to us.

I am not sure what these little white flowers are.  I thought they were blood root but now that I look at the leaves more closely I have too look them up.  We are always on the lookout for interesting plants and possible edibles.

Our ornamental crab apple tree is covered in blossoms this year!  I am so happy because last year it barely flowered at all.

Lastly our little rhubarb plant has grown a lot in 2 years.  We are planning to cut some this weekend and have our first taste.  Off to a nice weekend full of garden tending and planting, t-ball and mother's day!

Mushroom Hunting

A sure sign of fall around here are the plethora of mushrooms appearing. I visited the woods yesterday for a few minutes alone and wound up taking more than 50 pictures. Every where I turned a new color or type would appear. There were several I had never seen before. Truly amazing colors and saturation. My knees were certainly dirty and a lot of twigs in my hair after this trip!

This is the woods I was walking around in. I was planing to take a long walk but I didn't get more than 100 yards before finding all of these. I was crunching around so loudly I'm sure I scarred off any wildlife that might have been watching.

I have a huge backlog of pictures that I need to post. I have been photographing a lot lately and editing has taken up most of my free time. I'm working on a photography website that I will link to when I am done - probably a while!

Weekend

Here's to bread baking in the oven and fresh veggies in the belly. It has been a week of weeks around here. The weather has been amazing as the summer is winding down. Eliot and Kevin start back to school this week and we are closing on a new house on Tuesday if all goes as planned! I can't wait to share pictures and get settled.

In the mean time we are packing up and closing down shop here in our apartment. I suspect blogging will be slow over the next week and until we get Internet hooked up at our new residence. Wish us luck!


The quality of light is changing rapidly around here. The leaves have begun to change over, too.
We have had such perfect summer weather this year I can't feel too badly about fall approaching. Feels like our lives are changing along with the season.

Camping at the River

We had our first camping trip with Eliot last weekend. It was a lot of fun - if not a little more crowded than we would have liked. I think we are going to try for a more rural state park next time. The river view and beach here was amazing with slow running water and rainbow trout swiming all over the place. We all had a great time exploring and wading around.

Marshmallows of course!

There was a really retro slide there too. I haven't seen a metal slide since I was in grade school. There were all kinds of old giant metal playground items. I can't believe more of us didn't come away with head traumas from these things.


I couldn't resist bringing the ttv camera.