Greenbank

We had a lovely walk around Greenbank Park today with good friends. Despite the blustery weather, and threatening rain with lack of suitable attire, it was good to get out in the fresh air after a morning of action-packed indoor activity.

Isaiah collected a great number of sticks as per usual, including a full-on branch with leaves, which we pretended was an umbrella. It also proved to be good for hitting things (and people..) but ended up floating in the lake as he likes to throw specimens in the water from time to time and watch them sink or swim, even though he is then inevitably disappointed to (re)discover they are, more often than not, irretrievable!

As we walked around the lake my friend spotted a heron over the other side, so we watched that and attempted to get a closer look but our toddlers' general noisiness, including Isaiah's hollers of "HERON!!! COME HERE HERON!!" had quite the opposite effect of enticing it toward us! We did get a good look at it though, and watched it creeping along the edge of the jetty looking down into the water. We waited to see if it was going to catch something but it didn't while we were there.

In the walled garden Isaiah drank from the bird bath, much to my digust!, and rubbed lavender plants as we often do, smelling his fingers to get a good whiff of the pleasing aroma!

Thankfully the rain stayed off and it turned out lovely and sunny, all be it windy :)