Archive for October, 2011

friday {this moment}

Posted on October 7th, 2011 by mountain girl  |  Comments Off on friday {this moment}

“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” -Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

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life and learning

Posted on October 6th, 2011 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

Zia and I have been doing something called Five in a Row. It uses classic picture books – we’ve started with Madeline – and we read the book once each day for 5 days in a row. After each reading, we explore a different area of learning through the book. The first day we did geography, finding […]



goin’ barefoot

Posted on October 4th, 2011 by mountain girl  |  1 Comment »

I have a new pair of shoes! They are Merrell Barefoot Pace gloves, and I love them. I tend to wear the same pair of shoes daily for just about every occasion until I wear them out. Because I do a lot of outdoor walking on fairly rough ground, I always get hiking shoes or […]



enchanted forest at mud lake

Posted on October 3rd, 2011 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

Wild Bear Ecology Center here in Nederland hosts an annual event called the Enchanted Forest. It’s held in the woods at Mud Lake, and that is where we found ourselves this weekend. We started out in town at Wild Bear, where a certain Blue Fairy had to get some very important face painting done before […]