just the two of us

yesterday, while my mom & MIL took care of the boys, hubby & I left for a day of exploration, just the two of us. We left around 07.30am, and arrived where we wanted around 08.10am.

it was windy and not too warm nor too cold for the morning. Our purpose was to walk most of the day (read = work out), to explore nature sans kid, to be together only, to collect bits & bobs too. We did them all !

let me share with you the best photos of what we saw on Saturday morning.

after a very light picnic lunch, we had finished our exploration. We want to pick something to dye with. Unfortunately, the immortelle flowers & the Italian buckthorn we had picked in June, were not in the right shape for being gathered for dyeing. So I had a little glimpse of imagination, and I thought of picking something that grows really in huuuuge quantity over here, and that is not endangered. We dyed with it today so I'll be able to show something tomorrow.

so ... we did have some time after this exploration, so we drove a bit further & went to the place we usually go for looking for fossils. For a good hour, that's what we did. And we found some. OK, a good bunch.

and some minutes before leaving, I made an extraordinary discovery. A fossil that I had never seen, nor never found. Imagine a second my reaction when I saw this :

my smart friend Margie identified it for me (saving me sooo much time at the same time ! thanks again my friend !!), and it is a crinoid, or sea lily.

so this is our bounty (picked in a matter of an hour)

I'll have other interesting things to show the next couple of days, it would have been a bit too much for one post !

I hope you all had a lovely weekend. And that you girls in the southern hemisphere have started a new week on a great note.

please take good care of yourself, everyone

oxox

Sonia