Pictures

 So let's start with a two-walk Labor Day- and a morning trip to Shoaff Park:

Here we go!

Thinking it might not be long before it's time to switch to the hoodie ensemble

Steam off the pond

Looking for froggies

Bubblies!

Lots of doggies

A little Dorothy lost her ruby sandals

River so low, Misty took one step and boom, off the shelf and belly deep

So low the land side of the fishing pier is mud

A varmint fleeing

A baby blue jay hanging out

Into the ravine

"Daddy, this wasn't a very good idea"

Then, tha afternoon- in an attempt to let mommy rest before working...

On to the Duck Pond

No ducks, no pond

Time to go swimming

What we have to clamber back up

Daddy finds a big shell

Now we know where the rap music was coming from

"Let's go!"

From the peak of Big Hill.

About this time, Laurie called in tears over a kidney stone, so it all ended on a down note.  We move on to the 3rd...

I thought the rain wasn't coming till tonight...

Getting set for the big cross country meet.  One way to keep them on course, I guess...

Yeah... time to cut it short

Almost game time? Good luck with that.

Yesterday is next...

Hardly anyone out and about...

Old boy getting set to open cricket season

Mushroom Ridge getting a trim

See what happens when you mark the cross country course to soon and it rains? You get to do it again

Seconds before: "The woods is dead today!  No squirrels, no runners, no discers." Now: Squirrel runs up a tree, two runners go by.

And when we got home, it was time to assemble Laurie's latest find: Combo entertainment center and doggie cage.

Today:

Again with the 'no signs of life'

Oh, there we go: Cross country just getting set up

And Mr Goldfinch

Trekking up to base camp near the woods

Since doggies beat us to the main trail...

We went up south ridge

In the ravine, I spot a deer's butt

This was a second deer.  Camera decided to get stupid, and the 'butt' deer snorted and took off.  Scared the nibs off a black squirrel, too!

CC Base camp

Th-th-th-that's all folks!

(Except for the part that as we walked home through the addition, a car we passed told us, "Hi.  You are being recorded.")