Photo-A-Day #3689

For Adventure Friday this week I took Andrew to Stony Brook. Stony Brook is a MA Audubon Society Wildlife Sanctuary. We went there last year with the whole family and had a great time. It is over in Norfolk so it is close enough to drive to for a morning walk.

Andrew wanted to go to a playground, he loves them, but I wanted to get out into the woods and do some walking. I convinced him that there was a playground at Stony Brook, which there is but it is very small and has two things, it was the project of an Eagle Scout and for that, it is great. Andrew tired of it quickly so then we could walk in the woods. We went on down the trail tot he boardwalk and there we observed some turtles, two water snakes having an intimate moment, a frog and a bunch of birds. There were a ton of turtles, we saw both painted box turtles and a pretty big snapping turtle.

For the most part Andrew did a great job on the walk. He had one moment where he stepped in front of me, which is his sign for me to carry him. I convinced him to keep going. I think the pouty face picture is actually him hamming it up a bit.

I got a fairly decent shot of the waterfall this time around. I wish there wasn’t so much in the wa of it and that I could set up a tripod to capture a really nice waterfall photo. Maybe next time.

On the way home we stopped at a playground and Andrew played real hard there. He had the complete run of the place and loved it.