This past weekend we attended the Maple Harvest Festival at Shaver's Creek Nature Center. This was our second time with the little babe. (I blogged about last year's festival here.) Since we already know about the process of tapping maple syrup, we just walked around and did our own thing instead of stopping at the interpretive display stations.
We played and did dare devils...
We discovered nature finds...(skunk cabbage, black walnuts opened by squirrels, and what we think is a moth chrysalis)
We did a bit of birding...(Canadian Geese and the white spots on the ice are Tundra Swans)
We threw the last snowballs of the season and turned our backs on Winter...
-We checked to see if the sap was running...
We saw signs of Spring, but we also still felt the cold fingers of Old Man Winter holding on. It was only 30 degrees F even though the sun was shining. The lake still had several inches of ice on it, but the edges are beginning to thaw. March can be a bit of a tease and we know that we have to keep the hats and gloves around well into April.
I shared this post on Living A Good North Coast Life for Reconnecting With Nature.