While we were in Michigan, we went with my mom to two of her favorite places. The first was Gales Pond County Park–a must-see when we are with her. It’s been a favorite place to take a walk all my life.
There were dragonflies all over as we walked across the boardwalk. They were sunning themselves in the last rays of the evening.
The children enjoyed seeing the results of a sapsucker’s visit!
It was a calm, beautiful evening.
A must-do at the dam is playing Pooh-sticks! First, sticks, or cattail fluff, or grass, or whatever comes to hand, gets dropped over the edge above. Then, everyone runs across the road to see the objects come through under the bridge, below.
I had never been to Otto Nature Preserve before. It’s out near the Lake, and must be fairly new. This is where most of the mushroom pictures in my last post were taken.
And when a child has the camera, you get pictures of caterpillars and slugs and a line-up of pretty leaves, too!
These are Indian Pipe. I had never seen them before, but they were common that day in the preserve. Despite their lack of chlorophyll, they are plants, not fungi.
The two older children got bored with our slow pace, so we sent them ahead to search for a geocache for which I knew the approximate location. They didn’t find it, though, until we arrived with the phone to find the exact place.
Miss Joy explored someone’s hut.
She also tried to fit inside a tree.
Back to Gales Pond! This was the evening we went out searching for several geocaches.
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