Explore Outdoors ~ Leaf Prints on the Road

 

Animals leave tracks - but plants? Maybe....

A few weeks ago - well, actually, quite a few weeks ago - the wind and rain whipped leaves from the trees. Heavy and wet, the leaves fell to the road, landing in mud. The next day things dried up and the wind blew the now-dry leaves into the tall grasses. All that was left were the muddy leaf prints. 

This week, discover the stories that plants and animals in your neighborhood leave behind. Maybe it's a pile of hickory nut husks, scat, slime trails, or tracks. 

Wednesday Explorers Club ~ Mud Season

If you live in the northeast, you know about mud season. Squeezed in between winter and spring, it can run anywhere from the last part of March to the beginning of May.

It sounds boring, but there's so much to do:

• hunt for bird and insect tracks
• watch mud dry
• paint with mud
• take a mud bath
• make mud pies
• measure mud depth 
• test its friction coefficient - mud hockey anyone?