Outside Every Day- March 4th, 2012: Name Those Tracks

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Well, we’ve been busy lately.  The weather has been enjoyable- a mix of “no coat” days, frigid weather, and even some snow recently.  When it snowed the other day we had to take advantage of being in it for as long as possible, so we went to the local nature center to walk their trails and had a great time.

We hung out in a shelter:

Found some animal tracks- can you identify them?

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Poked the ice in the stream to see how thick it was:

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Over february vacation we had a play/bike/scooter rendezvous with a bunch of our friends at a school down the street:

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We went skating on a visit to Newport, RI:

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And, better than throwing rocks in water, we threw rocks into lovely, soft mud and made big, gratifying holes:

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If you had February vacation, did you get outside?