Nature Center

With warmer weather abounding, we've naturally been spending more and more time outside. The mailboxes for our apartment complex are located at either end of the complex, so we've got to walk to check the mail, and if it's nice outside and Addie is fully clothed (two variables that can never be guaranteed) I'll take her with me. And when it's nice, she wants to keep walking, but after one lap around our less-than-aesthetically-pleasing complex I'm usually ready to go back inside. There's something about taking laps on asphalt that has lost its appeal.

So we took advantage of Addie's desire to be outside and took an evening to walk the trails at the Conservation Nature Center. I'm happy to report that Addie thoroughly enjoyed herself (and walked a long ways), but her favorite part by far wasn't the deer, nor the blue heron, nor the swimming muskrat, nor the fish in the creek (though she did get a kick out of the squirrels chasing each other around); it was the gravel that lined parts of the walking trail. See for yourself: