The summer is almost over and we have a lot of things that we still wanted to do, like go to the Heard. Last week Aaron was in Boston. On Tuesday we woke up and it looked like it was going to rain, but we went anyway to the Heard. It ended up being the perfect day to go because no one was at the museum and it was overcast so the sun wasn't blazing down on us and it was cooler weather.
We also wanted to go to the museum to do some stuff for scouts. Seems like we do that a lot! We had to learn about some trees, animals, plants and habitats native to our area. The pecan tree is our state tree.
We saw this butterfly. They are so pretty.
We do have some flowers that grow in the summer--obviously they are native because all the other ones die in our heat.
The prairie.
The wetlands.
We studied some rocks.
But maybe the coolest thing of all was watching them feed the snakes. We watched them feed the rattlesnake. It is super gross and amazing to watch it. It is sad to see the mouse start to die from the venom and flop around and see the snake just waiting for it to stop moving so it can gulp it down.
We also talked to some folks about owls.
We spent a little over 4 hours there. The hikes were fun and the learning was fun. So thankful for the nice weather.
We came home and hung out, had dinner and then the boys came with me to my meeting.
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