One cold fall afternoon Tait and I took a walk after school. One of the best things about the location of our house is that it is less than a block from a trailhead. We bundled up and headed out. Tait's gloves didn't stay on more than five minutes. I don't blame him since they are mitten style but don't even have thumbs. We had a really cold clear snap this fall, so each morning for about a week we had a layer of frost that built up on the previous day's frost. By now we have some really pretty hoar frost. Tait discovered that if you stomp on the frosty grasses they make crunching sounds. Needless to say we didn't make it very far on our walk because we stopped often to explore. Here's the best part of our walk...for me anyway...
We have drainage ditches behind our houses. When it's cold and icy it's also very dry. So there had been water in the ditch from a rainy summer but it had started to subside. Apparently as it froze it was still dropping. It caused ice that looked like a topographic map. Of course I had to stop and take pictures (and make sure my toddler stayed up out of the ditch - I didn't want him falling down the ditch AND I didn't want him to break the beautiful ice).
After stopping to capture this really cool phenomenon we walked on. We found more leaves to stomp on. Tait loves to stomp...or as he says to 'omp. I love impromptu adventures!
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