Nature

Near to my parent's house there is a rather large nature center in the midst of the city. There is a one mile and a two mile loop you can hike on. On Sunday we went there with them and my niece and walked the one mile loop.






A ladybug that was almost pure black. What do you call that, anyway??? A sistabug???





The lake area abounds with turtles. I have many good pictures of them, but I often can't get all the good pictures I like to post here...



My firstborn attempted to catch this grasshopper. After a few failed attempts, it took off and ended up landing on the bottom edge of his shorts!!! It stayed there a while, and crawled about halfway up his shirt from there.




This bird was pretty good sized, about the size of a gull. He was just sitting there, well camouflaged and chillin'.