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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 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 [...]
Melissa | May 5, 2009
The woods are alive with wildflowers, one of which is this beautiful Wild Geranium. And these Large Yellow Wood Sorrel, which are much larger than the regular Yellow Wood Sorrel we saw everywhere last year. And these Golden Ragwort. Today we each took a photo of wildflowers and did [...]
Melissa | April 28, 2009
Now that’s an interesting title! “MAYAPPLES” I want to send out a big thank you to my blog friends for helping me identify things. I just love knowing the names of things in nature!! If it weren’t for you all I might not have found the name Reeves Pheasant or Mayapples. I think the [...]
Melissa | April 24, 2009
Yesterday, after four days of sometimes torrential rainfall, the sun broke through the dark gray clouds and the temperatures began their ascent. After a spring rainfall is a wonderful time to go exploring nature. So that’s exactly what we’ve been doing! After a spring rainfall you can find lots of vernal pools. A vernal pool [...]
Melissa | April 14, 2009
The spring weather has been very stereotypical around here; one day sunny and warm, the next raining and cold. Cold and wet weather has been dominate however this last week, so it’s been challenging to get outside as much. But we have managed to add a few more wildflowers to our photo collection this season. [...]
