Black Bayou in the spring

 We noticed that H's shirt "Camp-flaged" (camouflaged) with the blue goose.

It has been so neat to go to Black Bayou several times throughout the year to see how it changes with the season.  Lush and green, to bare, to sparse, to lush and green again!  This time it was so green everywhere, and there were also ants, mosquitoes, birds, frogs, and more!

 Checking out the baby alligator in the visitors center.  They love to see the animals there (snakes, fish, gar, alligator, turtles, a salamander), and are interested to see the big fish (can't remember the name) with his mouth underneath his body who "eats all of the rocks and then spits them out." (H)

 H made a fan out of a seed pod and was fanning a little centipede on the bench.  C was busy looking for SweetHart's "white duck" (white heron that they saw when she was here).

 We decided that the Cypress leaves looked like little green feathers.

 The boys are running to the end of the dock. 

There has been so much rain lately, that the water was right up to the very edge of the boardwalk, both where it was normally dry and over the bayou.  I'm sure the levels were over the boardwalk a few days before. 

 Hello, Frog!

All of the other frogs we saw were dime sized and you couldn't see them until they started to hop away from your feet.  They camouflaged with the rocks and leaves on the ground.  There were so many!

 Come on, Mama!

It is all so green!

H switched out his usual map for a bird guide, and was certain he saw or heard some of the ones in the pamphlet.

This is the picture C wanted me to take of him at Black Bayou.  He loves Jeeps!  Every time he sees one he says "Beej" (Some how Jeep just won't stick.)  The first time he noticed one I was trying to put him in his car seat and he grabbed on to the car door and wouldn't let me put him in his car seat so he could look at the car. He was about 18 months old at that first sighting.  His grandfather (Pop) has a love of Jeeps too, especially the older ones.  It must be genetic!  Pop kindly offered to get one for C, and "look after it" until C is old enough....