Nat'l Trails Day

Every year, my friend Irene, who is a forest ranger, organizes a fantastic time for the kids to celebrate National Trails Day. (Did you know there is such a thing? It's in June, the 2nd or 3rd...it's not ever preprinted on any calendar I've seen, but when you live in a National Forest and a bunch of your friends are rangers, you know these things).
















They have several activity stations set up...Anna's favorite was planting her very own pansy, (which before the summer was out was dug up by Sophie, but that's besides the point).

















Our friend Katie was dressed up as the "Dandelion Queen," and taught the kids all about how dandelions are survivors, let them try some dandelion honey, and made a felt dandelion! One of the other stations was for rock decorating, using colored wires and beads. They turned out quite nicely, and we hid them till Father's Day!

















After all of the activities, we had a picnic by the river with all our friends. Anna and Jacob both needed to catch their second wind, but then they were ready to throw rocks in the river along with Andrew!