Inscription Rock

If you live in New Mexico or find yourself visiting here, and you haven't seen Inscription Rock, our family highly recommends that you see it! Not only can you see interesting desert landscape, but you will also view a fabulous historical site. El Morro was a popular spot on the old Zuni trail and travelers would stop there to inscribe their names in the sandstone. Inscriptions date back to 1600.

Alligator Bark

Erosion and Weathering

Blooming Desert Cactus

We hiked to the top. What a breathtaking view!

They Came Up!

One of my favorite books to read to the kids when they were really little was The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss. The little boy in the story plants carrot seeds, but everyone he knows keeps telling him "They won't come up." By the end of the story, the little boy has grown the biggest carrot anyone has ever seen. We feel like the little boy in that story when he says, "They came up!" Our Mammoth sunflowers are sprouting like crazy. About three of our Evening Suns have sprouted as well. We are still anxiously waiting on the Autumn Beauties to sprout.

Bird Egg

Abby and Grant found a bird nest high up in our front yard's pine tree. The bird made his messy looking nest from dead pine needles. We had fun looking at the egg that fell from the nest even though we are sad to think the little bird inside probably did not make it.

Sunflower Books

Chloe and I have been reading lots of books about sunflowers while we water our seeds and wait for them to sprout. Below are some of the books we have enjoyed.

Sunflowers

This week, we decided to plant our sunflower seeds.

We bought the seeds and some garden gloves a few weeks ago.

Chloe was very excited to start picking weeds. We were not prepared for the painful problem of goat heads that we encountered, however.

Daddy helped Chloe get rid of the goat heads and put down new soil. We planted our seeds and are now praying for the seeds to sprout!

Welcome

Welcome to my new blog! The kids and I wanted to start this nature blog to share what we are learning about God's wonderful creation.

This picture is one of my favorites because it shows how clingy the Question Mark butterflies can be. We saw lots of these butterflies at the butterfly pavilion last week.