Neighborhood Explorers

Exploring the great outdoors had to be done from a van today.  There is no way that my body is up to walking or herding children.  It was well worth the 1 mile drive (yes, only a mile) to see what was just beyond our neighborhood.

This is a bean field.  This is a bean field under water. 

 These are the swans in the water on that bean field.

Beautiful animals surprised by our van. 

 There they go to the other side of the road.

 That's a bean field island in the middle of the bean field lake.

 This is the other side of the road.  There were a TON of swans and other birds resting.

 The water goes on for a long ways!

 See that row of trees WAY over there?  That's our neighborhood.

 This is the corn field just to the south of our neighborhood.  There is a nice sized pond there too.

 This is across the county road at the turnoff to our neighborhood.

 This is on our side of the county road at the turn off.  This is actually fairly low compared to other ditches in the area.

 This is our front yard's "river".

And finally - a picture of what is left to melt in our front yard.  There is still probably a foot and a half maybe two left in some places.  Melt slowly dear snow, melt slowly!