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Melissa | May 31, 2009
I admit my house has been a bit like a zoo lately. Creatures are beginning to take over. So even though I will miss them greatly it was time for our tadpoles turned toads to catch a wave back home today. For two days now several of them have been coming up to the surface [...]
Melissa | May 26, 2009
Our Creation Nature Club met again this past Friday. I continue to be amazed at how much fun this is! For this meeting we met right here around my home. Here are snapshots and a video from our day. We discovered two Eastern Box Turtles, and male and a female. One of the ways males can [...]
Melissa | May 20, 2009
During the springtime, the green in the forest is simply illuminating. When the sun shines through the not quite full yet trees and hits the woods floor, it’s almost magical. Photos simply do not do it justice, but I will try with this one. Since winter’s icy fingers have lost their grip and [...]
Melissa | May 16, 2009
“Rain had come and gone, filling the pond and fattening the fruit, settling the dust and soaking into the earth. It was time to go on a mushroom hunt.” – The Mushroom Hunt by Simon Frazer We’ve had a very rainy, wet spring here which has been like a beacon call for mushrooms to [...]
Melissa | May 13, 2009
I admit that the more experiences my children and I have with frogs and toads, the more we love them. This last week has been a goldmine of opporutnities to observe both. First, we visited my parents who have a beautiful garden pond. And it was simply alive with toads! We estimated that there must [...]
Melissa | May 10, 2009
We absolutely had a blast at our first Nature Club meeting!! We visited a gorgeous nature park where we walked on a long trail winding down to a bottomlands where we visited a huge creek for play in and around. I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to see kids and parents together enjoying [...]
