A Fog Day

We had the most wonderful surprise last Friday - school was cancelled due to fog! It was totally unexpected, which made it that much better. Tyler might have actually shed a tear because he was so happy. :)

The heavy fog left tons of perfectly shaped water droplets on everything. I wanted to go to the park to look for photo ops, and Danielle hoped to find some tree frogs, so we went to the park for a little while Friday morning. At the park we shared the quiet with another photographer, but we didn't find any tree frogs. We left once another school's 1st grade field trip arrived. They were not lucky enough to even have a delay!

Here are a few of my flower pictures from that morning. I am a little disappointed the pictures are not more crisp, but that probably bothers me more than it will anyone else. I am also throwing in a mushroom picture I took in my backyard a couple weeks ago. I discovered a clump of mushrooms  behind my trees and thought it looked kind of cool.

Red Fox Kits

I've gone back a couple times to see the fox kits. The second time I got permission to enter the fenced in area so I could sit and wait for the foxes to come out. Obviously it was so much easier to take pictures inside the fence! They were SO stinking cute! I saw 5 at a time, but I don't know if they were all babies. They were all about the same size, their coats all looked similiar, and they were all very playful. In fact, they rough-housed and fought like naughty little kids. My guess is that they were all babies, but I don't know for sure. I ended up being there almost 2 hours and took nearly 400 pictures! Thank goodness for digital cameras! The first three pictures were taken through the fence the first time I went back, the rest were taken during that second trip. (I know the pouncing picture is really blurry, but it was too cute not to share!)

 

 

He studied that chunk of mud and then...

he attacked...

and attacked again.

He was sneaking up on his brother.

Play Ball!

Today was the opening day of baseball season. I am so glad!!! It is so fun to spend our summer evenings cheering on Danielle and her team.

Today started with the annual opening day parade. It was a little drizzly, but it was nice not to be suffocating in the heat. (That came later in the day!)

See that face? She was determined to pelt us with candy!

See that box of Nerds flying toward the camera? Sure enough, she nailed me. :)

She was fortunate enough to be drafted by the same coaches that she had last year. They are a great group of guys who do a great job instructing and encouraging. Danielle learned a lot last year, so we were really glad she could learn from these guys again this year. Danielle moved up an age level this year, so she now plays kid pitch. That will take a little getting use to. I just hope she doesn't get hit by a pitch early in the season! After the pitcher pitches four balls, the coach gets to come in and pitch. I think Danielle's strategy at this point is to hope that the pitcher will throw balls and wait for the coach to come in! As the season progresses, I think the pitchers will improve and she will just have to learn to hit their strikes. She'll get there. They can steal bases in this level, and she really enjoys that. She is fast!

 

Danielle's team did a great job and won their first game, 13-3. Danielle did a great job, too. Hooray for softball season (& only 8 days of school left)!!

Our Day Off

The kids and I took Wednesday off, slept in, and then visited the metropark's working historical farm for a couple hours. We were hoping to see the baby animals but we should have gone last month; They weren't so tiny any more. It was still a nice time. I pretended it was summer break, and that made me happy. :)

The piglets weren't so little any more.