Nature Center Hike

Posted on | March 7, 2010 | No Comments

In spite of how grey and windy it was this past Friday, the boys wanted to get outside and so did mom. Enough paperwork! Time to go out and see stuff.

And play with the telephoto. Sometimes saying “thank you” for a gift means going out and having fun with it.

So off we went to the Nature Center so we could take a look at the animals and then go for a little hike. The boys wanted to go off on the hike right away, but I have a hard time passing up the animals so we spent a little time there.

This is just one reason why:

grey fox

Grey fox. Isn’t it cute? This is a barn owl, one of my favorite birds just because of how it looks:

barn owl

After the animals we went on the actual hike. We saw many signs that spring is on it’s way to Austin, like this:

bee and butterflyIf you click on the photo you’ll see where the camera found a bee and a butterfly. Happy accident!

Enough of taking pictures. We need to go up there!

lets go up there

Boys are fast!

onward and upward

At the overlook, we were rewarded with views of the Capitol building. This really got J excited. He really loves visiting “the city” and enjoyed seeing it from this perspective.

capitol

The rest of “the city” seen from our vantage point. The tallest building is the Austonian, a condo complex. It’s evidence of how rapidly the Austin skyline is changing since it was just beginning to form when we moved here.

skyline

Of course, the cranes show how much change is still happening.

While at the overlook, the boys found this tag:

creepy tree sighting 3

We saw it at several points along the trail.

creepy tree sighting 2

Keeping Austin weird? I suppose. I guess I should be happy it’s a non-obtrusive green. This one was much, much less obtrusive. Modern day petroglyph?

lizard petroglyph

After we got back down, the boys went hunting for rocks to skip on the water. Catching skipping rocks on water is hard! Boys are easier.

skipping rocks

We had a great time enjoying the outdoors. The nice thing was that by the end of our walk, we were tired and didn’t notice how grey and cold the wind was.

Lots more in the way of photos over here at Flickr.

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