giant pile of leaves

Saturday Morning the city decided to collect the leaves on our street. The sweeper truck piled them all up in front of our house! The larger truck came to collect them later in the day, but for several hours we had a massive pile of leaves! It was fun.

Maddie's hair blends in with the leaves. She likes us to pretend that we can't see her because of her hair

Caleb liked to cover himself up with leaves and then pop out of the pile.

What a great unexpected activity for a november saturday!

It was very warm saturday, so after playing in the leaves we all went for a hike at Natural Bridge state park.

An archeological dig at this site in 1957 found firewood that was 12,000 years old. Evidence of ancient inhabitatation. These paleoindians were living in the time of mastadons and mammoths. This part of Wisconsin was not glaciated- the southwest corner of wiconsin was not covered by the glacier that covered the rest of the state during the last iceage- so the land is a lot rougher and older structures like this are preserved.

I am very glad that my kids enjoy these sorts of outings. Hopefully they will always be excited about nature and geology. I like this park because it is pretty fun but also very safe. The trail is a loop, with all of the trees bare you can see everyone all the time. There is nowhere to fall or get wet. We had a fun hike and a great day. Now we are ready for the long cold winter.