urbpan: (Me and Charlie in the Arnold Arboretum)
urbpan ([personal profile] urbpan) wrote2008-11-15 01:15 pm

Rainy Warm Autumn Day Adventure with Charlie


It was surprisingly warm today, so I took Charlie to Ward's Pond, despite the rain.
A soda bottle sailboat sat on the still, leaf-choked pond.


Charlie went swimming right away.


This is the stream leaving the pond, completely stuffed with oak leaves.


Charlie set about chewing a stick while I cleared some leaves from the stream.


Charlie actually had two stick projects going, and would work on the one closest to where I happened to be.


A little rainshower came, but it didn't bother us.




After a while the stream was running pretty well!


Unfortunately that caused the soda bottle sailboat to run aground on the rocks.
I picked it up and noticed it had a keel made of a file, and was held together with hot glue.
It fell apart after I handled it.  I tried to set it back afloat in the pond, but it capsized.


While moving leaves out of the stream, I found lots of these guys! 
I take them to be amphipods;  I see them a lot under seaweed on the beach, but was surprised to see them in a fresh water habitat.


Some rocks were balanced.


But Charlie gets bored of that.  He wants me to throw rocks so he can swim!


Yay swimming!  In November!

[identity profile] drocera.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The balanced rocks look like E.T.!

[identity profile] corivax.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, that sailboat is neat.

[identity profile] smallerdemon.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I do so love picture 7 there.

[identity profile] brush-rat.livejournal.com 2008-11-15 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That was a warm fuzzy. Brightened my day up quite a bit.

[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2008-11-16 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
How DO you balance rocks like that?

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(Anonymous) 2008-11-18 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I think the bottle boat is cool. I wanna make one! But I don't drink soda or bottled water so I'll have to scavenge for the raw material.

~Flaneuse in DC
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[personal profile] weofodthignen 2008-11-29 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Charlie looks so happy :-) Good pics, thanks.

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