Snow Flakes falling on my windshield in 3D.

Stunning!

Friday Morning Hike

Campfire Cooking

Apple sauce spice cake cooked over and under hot coals. Delicious!

All cooked and ready to eat.

Muffins are baking!

Scooped out orange peel used for a muffin cup.

Scooped out orange peel with muffin batter ready to bake.

Farming and Walking

Crayfish burrow. Crayfish are small crustaceans which look somewhat like mini-lobsters. They are fresh-water creatures and love muddy, swampy areas. The kids have seen them but I have not yet. The burrows are usually wet and soggy from the pond right next by and that is the best time to apparently track them down.

Beautiful Grounds @ Andrews University

While on a long road trip we were listening to Rudyard Kipling's "How the first alphabet was written" in which ...,

"The Stranger-man (and he was a Tewara) thought, 'This is a very,

very wonderful child. She waves her arms and she shouts at me,

but I don't understand a word of what she says. But if I don't do

what she wants, I greatly fear that that haughty Chief,

Man-who-turns-his-back-on-callers, will be angry.' He got up and

twisted a big flat piece of bark off a birch-tree and gave it to

Taffy. He did this, Best Beloved, to show that his heart was as

white as the birch-bark and that he meant no harm; but Taffy

didn't quite understand."

I had absolutely no trouble splaining what a birch-tree looks like and how white the stranger man (who was a genuine Tewara)'s heart was!

This is one of our all time favorites and if you have not yet read Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling with your children, please do so, it is a delight! Tantor Media does an excellent job of it on tape most probably available at your local library.

I think this is the most beautiful evergreen we've seen so far. It's long swaying leaves reminded me of a very good hair day.

While attending the Passion of the Christ play at Andrews University we found ourselves in the wrong group. Aways into the program it occurred to us that everyone was speaking Spanish when the part about "crucify him" din't seem to be coming . That's when I considered taking up Spanish...the consideration lasted about seven minutes until the trees distracted our Spanish-speaking ambitions. So we wandered the beautiful grounds hugging the trees and looking for the English speaking peoples. Nearly missed half the program but the nature study was well worth it.

PRAISE TO THE RISEN CHRIST!