Nature Girl, Part 1

Luna loves to be outside! Sometimes I wonder if we just stayed in the backyard, would she eventually want to go in or would she just hang out all day? She can spend quite a while just poking at the soil, or moving a decomposing leaf around in her hand, or helping me pick parsley. Of course, if she hears a crow calling, everything stops so she can check out the action.



She also loves nature trips. Here's a retrospective of some of our "field trips" from the past few months.


First stop, the Birch Aquarium, where she contemplates the rays and admires the tidepools. Now this is October, so she's still sticking with a passive role.

Marian Bear Park

Walking at the Zoo

Sea World. Now here she able to get much more active, plunging her arms into the icy water, and touching everything she could get her hands on. Eventually, she got so soaked we had to change her shirt!

She waved at the dolphin every time it went by.



She really liked examining the little bits of algae she got on her fingers.







Here Luna is waving at a seagull. She is a serious bird fanatic!

Communing with the bat rays. I think she'd be happy to plop right in!