On a Sunday in August, we decided to take a leisurely family walk on a trail by the lake.
Displaying her treasure, a rock, then she was off and running!
Kids hydrating themselves at the water fountains.
The awesome new bridge along the trail.
Following the baby into the wilderness.
We enjoyed a fun hike that day. The local master gardeners had labeled the trees by attaching with string a piece of paper(enclosed in a clear plastic bag) to several of the trees. They were having permanent markers made, and placed the temporary paper labels in the mean time. Apparently some teenage punk had humored himself by removing each tag and moving it to another tree. I told the man who labeled them all that we noticed the trees were now all labeled wrong. He said, "I bet that kid was worn out, I was exhausted when I finished labeling all the trees and he had a harder job of switching them all."
When we got home after the hike, we realized that we had been attacked by teeny tiny seed ticks! They were so small that they looked like freckles. I had to scrape a credit card across my skin to determine whether I had a tick or a freckle. I am excited for winter, only because the ticks will DIE! Maybe we'll revisit the trail then.
Displaying her treasure, a rock, then she was off and running!
Kids hydrating themselves at the water fountains.
The awesome new bridge along the trail.
Following the baby into the wilderness.
We enjoyed a fun hike that day. The local master gardeners had labeled the trees by attaching with string a piece of paper(enclosed in a clear plastic bag) to several of the trees. They were having permanent markers made, and placed the temporary paper labels in the mean time. Apparently some teenage punk had humored himself by removing each tag and moving it to another tree. I told the man who labeled them all that we noticed the trees were now all labeled wrong. He said, "I bet that kid was worn out, I was exhausted when I finished labeling all the trees and he had a harder job of switching them all."When we got home after the hike, we realized that we had been attacked by teeny tiny seed ticks! They were so small that they looked like freckles. I had to scrape a credit card across my skin to determine whether I had a tick or a freckle. I am excited for winter, only because the ticks will DIE! Maybe we'll revisit the trail then.
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