Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sunset. Show all posts

Outside and in the Garden

Now that the twins only walk down to the bus stop on pretty days, instead of all the way to school, I feel like I spend way less time outside.   So, I'll just have to be extra appreciative of the time that I do get to be outside!

Our neighbors have these beautiful two-tone flowers right by the sidewalk.  They look like they are yellow flowers that have had purple paint dropped into their centers!

Sometimes I can now take pictures of the twilight, since Alice is driving!

One of our lovely heartvests from our very weedy garden!

Froze some celery and carrots for my mom to use, because we had way more than we were going to eat!

The tomato plants thrived, despite neglect from the gardener (yours truly.)





Alice really liked this cloud, so I took a picture for her, since her phone was at home on the charger.  It was a picture perfect cloud!


Both Alice and William said "Mutti take a picture!" at the same time!  How could I refuse?


I'm so not ready for winter, but I guess it's coming whether I'm ready or not!  I'll be keeping my fingers crossed for a pleasant Halloween!

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78 Michigan Parks: Sleeper State Park #46

Our final state park of the day, Sleeper was by far the sunniest!  I don't know which child or children came up with the 'sleeping' pose, but I do adore it!


The beach was a short boardwalk trip from the parking lot, and there were plenty of shady spots!  William's toy llama, from the dentist, came with us to this beach.




As the clouds were blowing away, the sky remaining was a brilliant blue!


And sunset vibes in the other direction!



Emily found a large shell!


This beach was the best one of the day, as far as having the fewest rocks and softest sand!




Civilization is well hidden from the water!


The water was quite shallow, way out!



I think we spent half an hour swimming, then it was time to change and make the two hour, plus some, drive home!




The map outside of the restroom showed all of our stops during the day, and some that we might need to go back for, should we ever finish the map I have!


I found this map funny, because they, possibly intentionally, cut off Detroit, Lansing, Traverse City, and Grand Rapids. lol.


The number of deer we saw on our circuit were numerous, one field had upwards of 30, where the farmer had just cut the crops for harvest.  As close as we were to the sugar refinery, I assume that it was a sugar beet crop, which must be tasty eating for the deer!!!


We got in sometime after midnight the next morning, but it was such an enjoyable trip, that I had no regrets!!!  Looking forward to another visit to the thumb of our beautiful, adopted state!

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edit 8-17-25: backdated for continuity.


Outside

Most days this time of year, it hurts to be outside, so the pictures are fewer and further between.  We did have a few good pictures of nature this round though!

Grace really liked the sky after we finished our robotics day, so she was the one who took this picture.

The moon peeking out on the same day.


The bush right outside of our kitchen window had lots of berries this year, and the birds came visiting often!  But on the day of our first sticking snow, we had lots of visitors!





 The berries are gone now, and so are the birds*. = (  Hopefully I'll get to see them again soon!

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*Yesterday I saw several groups of geese flying north!!!

Outside

Some pictures of things we spotted in the great outdoors!

Heart shaped rock in the concrete. <3

Fungus on a fence post.

Our beautiful river!

Pastel sunset.

Stars (but no aurora borealis.)

Heart hands to go with the heart leaf!

Snake rock?

Snake rock!

Earthworm rescue!

Mushrooms.


Dragonfly on the bridge!

More sunset!

Butterfly.


 It's been a beautiful summer, though we've already started to hit some pretty cold temperatures. = (

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