Just a quick run-through of some of what has occupied our time during late spring and early summer:
Finishing school - kind of (we school through the summer)
in our pajamas!
Enjoying the sunshine and some watermelon!
We all went on a Creation Encounters field trip in the Columbia Gorge
with a bunch of friends from church and our old homeschool group.
We hunted for quartzite along a cut-bank and found tons of it (by the way, the nearest quartzite source is in the Rockies - I wonder how it got here?!)
We saw where lava had flowed around standing trees, and as it burned and cooled it left the imprint of the coalified wood.
And we found deposits of petrified and coalified wood together in lava flows.
It was pretty cool!
Then, that same day, we hiked the Tom McCall trail (yes, we hiked it last year too) with friends!
And were blessed with some beautiful weather and amazing views. That's Mt. Adams away in the distance, north across the Columbia into Washington.
And then, of course, there's Mt. Hood. It's such a beautiful mountain! I love the birds in the foreground, and though I'd love to say they were picturesque eagles, they're not - just plain old buzzards!
Then we needed some rest, so... some of us read,
Some of us get into our music,
did I mention that some of us read?
(in his Costa Rican hammock chair that he purchased with his own money)
Some of us kill moles (with a shotgun),
and some of us wander in the yard, enjoying the beauty
and taking pictures of the flowers.
And after some rest, we needed some recreation, so off to Faraday Lake we went,
to do a bit of fishing (in the sprinkling rain).
That gets us up to the end of June!
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