Feb 24, 2006 (from old blog)

Signs of Spring: Pleasant & Unpleasant

During a hike today we noticed something new- we could smell spring! Everything still looks dead, but the air has the pleasant smell of warm spring growth.



An unpleasant sign of spring: ticks! This morning Chloe found a tick attached to her back and Allie found one attached to her ear (probably from yesterday's hike). This is something new considering that the girls have been crawling around in the woods all winter without getting any "hitchhikers."






Saint Benjamin


No, this is not a little monk walking contemplatively through the woods. It is a very wet little boy (who accidentally went swimming in a stream) who is wearing mom's sweatshirt on the way home.











Everywhere Ben goes, he carries and engine. (You can also see that he's holding it in the monk picture and the field picture.)

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