friday hike

We joined some homeschool friends for a short hike at a local wildlife sanctuary after baseball on Friday. This was an area that The Map Man and I used to hike in when we were dating. It was disappointing to see how much it had grown up -- there used to be some really cool old fields and a wide variety of songbirds. Not so anymore, the remaining fields were completely mowed, and the old fields had grown into woods (I supposed inevitable unless they'd been managed to keep them as old field -- which obviously they weren't -- I mean, it HAS been over 20 years!).


Hiking at Zoo Boy pace. Not only does he sit down a lot to explore the tiny details of nature (or to remove twigs and rocks from his shoes), but he also likes to meander more than make forward progress. He reminds me a bit of his Uncle Big J in that way. Only without all the whining Big J used to (and may very well still) do.



The other three boys exploring up ahead of us.









The four boys at the top of a large, mowed hill. No really, they are there. See those black dots in the middle of the field. That's them.

(On a different note, why isn't "mown" accepted by spell-check? Is that not a valid word? Is it only us in New England who would refer to this field as "mown" rather than mowed??)



J in the foreground, Zoo boy back aways. (Look between the two trees to the right of J.)


It was a nice day to be out walking!