Monday turned out to be a nice day for going out. It was still a bit cooler than expected but warmer than it's been lately. We started out at the Shelby playground a few blocks from our house then made our way to the school playground (a few blocks in the opposite direction). We were there about 20 minutes when it started to rain. We had to head home and had two choices: we could go back the way we came (at the street) or go back through the woods. We chose the woods thinking it would also act as a canopy to some extent.
Our community has been working on cleaning up this area since it was donated to Shelby park a couple years ago. It's where the original Lockeland Spring and spring house are located that our neighborhood was named after. It's really turning out to be a great area to explore. Serif loves playing back there.
(Making a fire)
If you look in the background, our house in the upper center of the photo. You can see there is still plenty of privacy for us. We were originally very concerned about losing that when the park got the property. The two photos below are showing him on our actual property that starts the woods from our backyard.
Below shows the spring that starts back here and flows through Shelby golf course and park.
We found a heart shaped leaf that we had to get his picture with. The tree below is very interesting. It is hollow all the way up. Almost like it was 3 trees that grew together. When Serif saw it he said it looked like where Frankenstein sleeps. He then described a coffin. He loves Halloween! Ha!
After the woods and over 2-1/2 hours of being outside, he wanted to go to the golf course. So we did.
As much as we love sledding down these hills it's nice to have some warmer weather to enjoy.
He went straight for the water where we typically find golf balls but today we found a crawdad!
What a fun day exploring and enjoying the weather. It was nice to get out.
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