After the quarry was levelled out it became the cathedral's graveyard and there are still lots of gravestones around it but it has plenty of open space too; it's quite sizeable. I noticed a tree that I didn't recognise; it had intertwining branches, and leaves that resembled those of oak but more delicate and with red berries. When I got home I looked it up with Isaiah and we discovered it was a May tree and that the berries must have just turned red as the book said the berries are green until early September!
Isaiah was delighted to find a concer while I was sitting on a bench feeding Jeremy. He seems to be a real kinesthetic learner, at this stage anyway, and once he'd had a good feel of it he popped it straight in his mouth for further exploration - not to eat it, just to enjoy its shape and texture further! He and his friend then took great pleasure in shouting into a cylindrical building in the middle of the gardens, listening to their voices echoing. Isaiah also took the opportunity for a good climb when he came across some stone walls :)
We spent some of the afternoon at home in the garden where I noticed one of the potato plants was flowering so Isaiah and I pulled it out for the reward of one very small salad potato! I wondered if some had been left behind, still in the soil, so Isaiah got his spade and we dug down a bit in search of any stray potatoes but accidentally cut into a growing potato from the neighbouring not-yet-flowering plant, so I decided to leave it be for fear of doing more damage. I wonder if there are some potatoes down there that didn't come up with the roots.. While we were doing this I lay Jeremy face-up on the grass and he went really quiet, looking up at the sky and enjoying the feel of the grass on his head and round his bare little feet!
As we played I noticed a hover fly by the fuscia, which appeared to be collecting pollen, but I thought it was just bees that did that - to make honey? Anyway, Isaiah explanied that hover flies collect pollen to make toast so that's that cleared up.
In addition we discovered a little green caterpillar in the garden, which Isaiah told me he was going to watch wrap itself in a cocoon and then turn into a big butterfly.. And when Josh got home from work they found a snail with a surprisingly smooth shell. Isaiah didn't want to hold it though he had been playing with the caterpillar for sometime (very gently!), but Josh had it on his hand and his palm was all slimey. That's not something I would voluntarily do but I'm glad Josh did because I wouldn't want Isaiah thinking such creatures a 'yucky'. I do hold worms but snails are a step further! I suppose I would if I really felt it would be beneficial! They also spotted an earwig in the trailer of Isaiah's bike which he manually relocated to its natural habitat. That's something Josh wouldn't touch - he has an irrational fear of them due to some film he saw with oversized earwigs or something!
There's a singed circle in the middle of our lawn where Josh and Isaiah built a little fire a while ago without thinking about such consequences.. Isaiah pointed out to Josh today, that he needs to plant some grass seed there so that it will grow grass like it did where they did so on another area about a year ago; some things really stick in his head!
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