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As you will recall from my Monday post, GB and I have been having sort of a rough week. His attitude hasn’t been the best. And he’s been holding back on our curriculum. He didn’t complain outwardly about the curriculum, but he’s had no enthusiasm for it; even for the science and history, which he typically loves. And I’ve felt all week like I was saying, ‘No, no, no’ over and over.

I’m probably a pushover, but on the advice of several of my readers, I decided to give GB a break from the curriculum. We can definitely afford it, we’re about two weeks ahead of schedule. So, today was a “Yes” day. He loves to go traipsing through the State Park down the way, and we have a cut-through path right across the street from us. So today we had a nature day for him, and for me, we did a really cool craft; which I will post later….. It’s not quite dry.

We were a little distressed that some of the pathways are getting a bit overgrown. It seems like people aren’t using the park paths these days.

We saw a surprising variety of wildflowers, which we haven’t identified yet, but we’ll do that soon.

And I showed him how some of the wildflowers disperse their seeds.

I love this pretty pink flower. It was such a contrast to all the greens and browns on the ground.

And the foliage is just so pretty here in central Virginia.

GB thought this moss felt just like carpet.

And this stuff felt just like the sponges that you pay a fortune for in the bed and bath stores. It’s roots didn’t go very deep at all. In fact, GB felt bad that he disturbed this little puff from it’s spot.

Check out the lichen in these photos. The green lichen in the bottom photo didn’t even look real to us, and we were there!

And, omg! It was a mushroom day! We saw so many different kinds of mushrooms. We are going to have to look through our field guides and identify all these. So many colors!

This one had a pretty lacy edge and was quite large.

But not as big as this one, which is splitting under it’s own weight.

This was a strange looking mushroom. I’d never seen colors or a shape like this. It sort of reminded me of a turkey sculpture….LOL! And no, folks, that is not an upside down mushroom. That is the way it was growing. Don’t bother trying to enlarge it, it’s fuzzy. Too bad, because it was so cool.

This one just made me think of houses for fairies. It’s so perfectly shaped, with just the right overhang. Aren’t they amazing in their perfection?

This shroom reminded me of the shape of my morning glories. Doesn’t it have that trumpet shape to it?

Again……. HUGE!

These little red ones were so cute! And I didn’t even notice the cool spider web in the background.

And for those folks that think we’ve come out of our drought….. I’d like to post exhibit A. This used to have running water about as high as that branch there.

I’m sorry for those family members who have slow computer collections. I know you don’t like it when I put so many pictures on my posts. But I just couldn’t decide on which photos to eliminate. So I kept them all.

It was a great “yes” day. Maybe we’ll do it again. And hopefully, GB’s mood will be much better the next time we sit down with our curriculum. I really want my easy-going guy back.