A Mother’s Journal

Though the air was biting cold yesterday, Miss Priss and I set out on our nature walk.  We were sure to wrap well our scarves around our necks and cover our ears.  The landscape becomes more barren here as winter approaches, but there are still many beautiful sights to behold.

I love the tall grasses in this yard.

How could we not notice these cheerful berries?  Looks like something in the genus Euonymus.

Oh, I thought these seeds were lovely!  I think it’s a type of clematis.  I am so tempted to gather a few of these seeds and see what type of clematis will grow.  These are at the edge of a property, creeping over the shrub line and toward the street.

Nature offers an abundance of things to study, any time of year.  Do you have your nature journal and sketching pencils handy?

Shiver me timbers, this tree looks so cold and stern!  It has personality.  It reminds me a bit of the whomping willow from Harry Potter.  Let’s keep our distance, shall we?

Bright nandina berries abound this time of year.

I love how the pretty yellow leaves contrast with the dark seeds on this Crepe Myrtle “Natchez.”  I am reminded that tomorrow on our walk we need to find some handsome branches for the thankfulness tree we’ll be using throughout the rest of November.

Obviously the nature walk ended much earlier in the day.  You’ve caught me hiding!  I was just commenting to a reader yesterday that I have to remind myself occasionally which side of the screen I live on.  Between having my work all on computer, surfing around looking for homeschool info and getting encouraged, and blogging, I could easily spend too much time on line.  All computers were shut down early last evening and I disappeared from everyone to start a book just for me:  A Redbird Christmas: A Novel. 

It was a good day here.  I hope you had a lovely day.  Did you?  What’s on tap for the rest of the week for you?  Here, it’s a lot of animal and nature study as we continue our studies of The Raft with lesson plans from Five In A Row.  There’s a great fieldtrip on the horizon.  We are really focusing on math today and tomorrow.  We will put up our thankfulness tree today.  I have a couple of errands to run today and perhaps will have the chance to step in a couple of thrift stores. 

Happy Tuesday,

Lynn