A friend had mentioned they went out to Hamilton Pool for a hike and swim and said it had the actual falls falling into the pool. Wow! It had been a wimpy falls the last time we visited so I thought that sounded fun.

Fun!

But then there was That Voice that kept telling me You Must Get Seat Work Done and it kept wagging a finger at me. Oh dear. I didn’t like that voice much especially since it was so pretty outside and friends wanted to go with us after I mentioned possibly going. So I gagged that voice. It didn’t sound very nice anyway.

As usual, I didn’t say anything until THE very last possible moment, and then some. Off we go to get cash for parking and then drive off to head to the Pool.

It was fun!

Well, admittedly, the boys did more hanging out with their friends than observe-and-report-your-findings. But this time around, we had nature notebooks for them plus colored pencils so that they did a better job of follow up vs. just taking photos to hear the camera click and play with its settings. And all the Charlotte Mason fans say with me, “Yay!”

Most of the hike, this is what I saw of my boys if I saw them at all:

I don’t know what was up with me. Usually, I manage to see the little things but my friend was the one that caught sight of this little guy:

I didn’t have a handle on the camera because I was distracted and so I couldn’t get things just right. Or maybe it’s just that hard to capture something God made in a man-made box? That’s probably it. Because these were hard to get:

This is what the sky was supposed to look like:

Boo. Next time, I won’t forget I have a “fully automatic” button on that camera.

On the way back, one of the boys in our company spotted these wee little froggies all over the place. Boy, those things were fast and they jumped so far! But I did manage to catch one, plus pointy finger to give you an idea of scale:

I have a soft spot for little froggies. Little froggies are one big soft spot. Heh. I thought this plant was pretty, so I had to click:

We had fun. It ended up being a great thing that we got to go since we won’t make Friday’s hike (just one disadvantage to having only one vehicle). See, God knew we had to get out then and there. Thanks, Abba, for that nudge!

Don’t miss more photos (including minor drama!) here.