What Is In My Yard

I guest posted at LinderCroft a few days ago with my plans for a garden. Or rather my unplanning.

Well! For not planning it out well, it is finally coming together. Here is what I found in my garden today, six days later.

Spinach!

Tomato? I can't recall where I was standing when I took this photo.

Purslane! I didn't plant it and it's not actually in the garden but it's a keeper.

Not sure what those little things are and I'm more inclined to think they're not something I want in the garden. Will watch and see.

Beets!

Radishes!

And elsewhere in my yard:

This is how we've decided to keep the deer and rabbits out of the garden. It's worked quite well. No deer or other little varmints have been even close to the garden since it's been there. We have trail cams in our yard so we know ;)

Moss! I love moss. This is on our back steps. Apparently, there's also mushrooms? Mushrooms are all over our yard this year.

And not from today but within the last week here are some other 'things' in the yard, front and back.

Goldfinch peeking in the window.

Gross, huge mushroom in the backyard. This is from today.

Lambs ear = love

And one more that I didn't take a photo of but put in my nature journal.

Day lily

In Our Backyard- Photos

(It really was quite tiny)

(do you see the lamb?)

We Love Nature

Yesterday was beautiful and warm. We wanted to go to the park to enjoy the day. Packed up ourselves and headed out… The first one we wanted to go to was actually right next to a school but we thought that was the park {which had the nice play area}; it wasn’t. The second one we went to was closed for some reason {it has an awesome play area} so we went to the one close to our house. It was squishy and by this time, driving around, it had turned somewhat chilly and I had to go to work.

Our day outside was foiled. {Oh, yes, I know, we could have hung out in our backyard}

Today is cold. It’s overcast and somewhat drizzly {or is that snow?}. But we decided to head out again in an attempt to do some nature study. We stopped by McDonald’s for some hot cocoa, grabbed our journals {I also grabbed my colored pencils and water color crayons, just in case}, and set a course for one of the Metroparks.

 

Euclid Creek Reservation, one of the Cleveland Metroparks, isn’t that far from our house and we often pass by it on our way home.

This is one of our favorite places now! The kids were too busy having fun near, around and in the creek to worry or think about their journals. I sat by the creek and tried to sketch out the view. It was so cold. My fingers stopped cooperating, though, so I had to continue after we got home. The kids attempted to make a ‘bridge’ {it was more a path than bridge} to the other side of the creek. In the process they got their feet all wet and their hands were pretty much frozen.

I tore them away {they didn’t want to go although they were obviously uncomfortable from the wet and cold} from their project and we headed home. I took a chunk of rock that we thought was possibly the same as what made up the creek bed. As soon as we got here, we all made an entry in our journals. We talked about what we saw and what we liked most about the area.

It is a place that we will go again, that is for sure! There is another place we like but it is more than 30 minutes away. I’m sure we will go to both of these and more as the weather gets warm.