October 16, 2012

• back up a bit....

  Having fallen way behind on my photo sorting I decided to take this opportunity to blog about some pictures I took earlier this year. So, back up with me all the way to May, back when K's hair was long. They were making faces at each other and I had to capture it:

  

  Then they made faces at me, which I also captured.

     

  A few weeks later, a bunny in my yard was also making faces. Ok, mostly it was eating but it looked funny to me. I crawled in the grass to get as close as possible and tried to be still. It kept a wary eye or two on me but didn't slow down in it's munchings.

    

  A few days after that photo op, the kids and I went hiking with some friends of ours. It was a drizzly day but we made the most of our hike and I got some cool pictures of a old boardwalk.

   And raindrops on leaves.

  Some of a rushing stream through a mass of fresh vegatation. 

   

  And of some calm ferns over flowing water.

  

   Towering trees and slimy snails. 

  These are a few of my favorite things. Ok, not the snails, but Peter liked it enough to play with it.

  We were testing out a area for a hike to go on with the ladies of the church, and this place failed. The trails were blocked off by trees that had fallen a year ago that they hadn't cleared, the trails that were clear were through a beautiful area but everything was unkempt and the loop no longer looped and we had to do quite a bit of backtracking.

   Our summer involved tree climbing.

    And being buried at the beach a lot. One of our favorite parks is Twin Rivers Park, where the north and south forks of the Stillaguamish River meet. There is plenty of sand to play in there, and of course, water to swim in. The best swimming river, the tail end of the north fork, is pretty rocky so we sometimes have to choose if we want to play in water or sand because the sand is where the forks meet, but isn't good for swimming due to the currents and little whirlpools and deep water.

  Next time I'll show you some of the pics I took when we went to the Big Four Ice Caves last July.

   

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