Asbury Woods wonderment
Amongst the weekly ritual of Sundays we dropped in at Asbury Woods. It was a lovely day, everybody needed a walk after a good lunch and the 5-year old still needed some different leaves for her collection. 
(We’re pressing them and then making wax crayon imprints to create multi-colored paper leaves and then….etc.)
This was the first time we’d been when there was an effective absence of insects. The 5-year old, usually ducking and diving from real and imagined bugs, was enthralled. It was as though she hadn’t seen nature before. (She has, plenty!) A short walk 
turned into a long stroll, with time spent examining the fallen leaves, last year’s fallen leaves, the stuff below them, all the way down to soil. She’d read a book on leaves recently and was fascinated to see evidence of their life-cycle ‘live’ as it were.
We collected a number of different shaped leaves and carefully put them in the pressing book when we got home. We checked the progress of leaves put in the book a few days ago and she was amazed at how they were flattened.
That’s what Sundays should be like.
And it was all free. Isn’t nature wonderful?
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