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Nature Rocks. Happier, Healthier, Smarter Children and Families.

Nature Rocks. Happier, Healthier, Smarter Children and Families.

Young People to Celebrate Nature on Get Outside Day!

Young People to Celebrate Nature on Get Outside Day!

Let's go fly a kite...

Up to the dam, to fly a new kite.



Just look at that.



Beautiful day, beautiful sky, beautiful kite. Absolutely beautiful!

Early Spring, time to tap the maple trees.

Drilling into the Maple, to collect sap.


The children are learning how sap runs up the tree.


Everyone has to taste it to know it's true!


Delicious already.

Some even like it by the cupful!

Watching through billows of smoke for sap to boil - this will be too long to wait.


Waiting....waiting.....waiting.... there's even time to build a snowcastle.

It's remarkable how much the children and adults love congregating around a fire. There's something so alluring about the flames and the atmosphere. The kids will run off to play, return and sit for awhile, then go again. If all we did was have a fire everyday, I think they'd still be happy. So would Mr Shaw. Sitting around the fire, talking and telling stories...

Good bye Winter

As I was thinking about how to catch up on my delinquent blogging, I looked through our collection of photos for some inspiration. We still have many winter pictures that were never posted. Though each one represents warm memories of fun and beauty, I had the feeling that I was done with winter. It's over. It's time to move on. But, then I found that I was particularly drawn to this one. I like the perspective it gives. A little bit of distance from the action.
Sometimes that's just what I need - to step back out of the commotion and excitement and noise - so I can see.

~Grace

The melting of the igloo : (

Warm weather and igloos don't go together so well.

A few more peep holes than when we began.

Now we have a back door view.

Ice in the woods

Testing out an ice puddle in the woods.

Just hanging out on the ice.

Just laying around on the ice.

We always need a fire to warm up with, and someone has to keep it burning.

The pond is frozen!

Something is not right here.

Someone's having fun. Someone is not so sure.

Is he hiding behind that stick?

Ready for the puck!

Strong boys get to pull sleds on the ice.

New skates!

Time to warm up.

The guys keeping the fire going.


Train rides on the ice.

Sledding

The first runs need some pulling to get it packed down

And then they've got it - train rides are the best!

Back up again.

Icy trails require expert steering.


Sledding is the best!