Nature day

Ahhh. Nice relaxing day. Didn't have to go anywhere. Just read through some stories (still have to crit three of them and finish the other crit) and hung out, and in the afternoon went to check out the nature trail. Have to come up with a wrap-up paragraph for my synopsis assignment, but that's about it.

Oh, before that, birdhousefrog found one of the neat moths and put him on the lamp to save him for me. Cool, huh?



Then I took my flute and went for a walk on the nature trail along the river for a little ways. I saw a deer bounding away too quick for my camera. Anyway. Here's some nifty pictures.

Columbines! Seeing these actually made me a little homesick for Colorado, since columbines are the state flower and I could see them on the rare times I actually went to the mountains.



Here's my flute, Trail's Friend, out in nature as it should be. It's the coolest thing--it's actually in tune with the river. I swear. The flute sounded really, really good alongside the Rio Hondo.



And along the trail they had some old chairs from the ski lift. This is a cool view.



On the way back, I saw signs for trail riding, and then some horses ambling along. I was bummed; I would have totally gone for a horseback ride had I known. Cowboy hat and all.



And, last, but not least, that little blue spot is birdhousefrog up on the hill chatting on her cell phone as I came up the driveway back to the lodge.