November rain.
Nov. 16th, 2014 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckToday was an exceptionally dreary day with the greyest skies and a persistent drizzle.
I had already spent yesterday inside.
So, I took the kid and we went on a walk through the woods where we got lots of mud on our shoes.
Yellow leaf:
We enjoyed the smell of mushrooms and soggy earth and wet leaves.
We met a couple walking their dog & saw a kid learning to ride a bike. We might have caught a glimpse of the kingfisher that lives close to the small river. At the ponds there was a little duckling - a latecomer, because usually the mallards breed in spring.
There is so much to discover - fallen trees that look like dragons or penguins and trees that have grown through wire mesh fences.
So much grows on trees:
We spotted a tiny little bird hiding from the rain under the 'conk' of some shelf fungi or polypores growing on the trunk of a dead tree.
We covered not quite 4.4 km which took us nearly one and a half hours - we stopped frequently to look at toadstools and mushrooms and to take pictures of the coloured leaves.
I was lectured on why trees are important for us and that we mustn't cut them all down. The kid explained about carbon dioxide and oxygen. He watches too much educational television.
I still hear my grandparents saying: "There is no bad weather, just inappropriate clothing."
I had already spent yesterday inside.
So, I took the kid and we went on a walk through the woods where we got lots of mud on our shoes.
Yellow leaf:
We enjoyed the smell of mushrooms and soggy earth and wet leaves.
We met a couple walking their dog & saw a kid learning to ride a bike. We might have caught a glimpse of the kingfisher that lives close to the small river. At the ponds there was a little duckling - a latecomer, because usually the mallards breed in spring.
There is so much to discover - fallen trees that look like dragons or penguins and trees that have grown through wire mesh fences.
So much grows on trees:
We spotted a tiny little bird hiding from the rain under the 'conk' of some shelf fungi or polypores growing on the trunk of a dead tree.
We covered not quite 4.4 km which took us nearly one and a half hours - we stopped frequently to look at toadstools and mushrooms and to take pictures of the coloured leaves.
I was lectured on why trees are important for us and that we mustn't cut them all down. The kid explained about carbon dioxide and oxygen. He watches too much educational television.
I still hear my grandparents saying: "There is no bad weather, just inappropriate clothing."
