I noticed the poison ivy turning first - brilliant yellows, then reds. And alas, the nandina is truly beautiful!
"Who made this?"
"Um.. nature."
"Mother nature?"
"Yes!"
This, from one of the second graders on the October hikes, as we were crossing the creek. It occurred to me she has never been in an environment that was not man-made - made for man.
"This wasn't made for us, like an amusement park. Nature made it over a long time, and it's here for the creatures that live here, not for us."
She and her friend (best friend, I was informed) spent the hike spotting rocks that looked like pizza slices and using a rock as a cell phone to order more pizza slices. One of the hugely quarried stones became a ginormous pizza slice. We argued over toppings to order. They left some slices with only one bite in them, so that other animals had something to eat. At the end of the hike, the cell phone was still in tow - I only had to gently remind her that everything here should stay here. I hadn't even finished my sentence and she was already throwing it on the ground.
Who knows what they got out of this hike?... All I know is, they had a great time and I had pizza for dinner (and I didn't have to argue with anyone about toppings).
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