Sunday walk: Frozen fingers & tree snot

Our Sunday walk today was several degrees colder than last week's.

We were all pretty frozen by the time we got home, especially big brother J.'s fingers. He ended up borrowing my gloves for the most of the walk.

I know I didn't truly warm up until the next morning.

 

These bright little pom-poms bobbing along in front of me made my heart happy.

 

Probably because we were so cold, we didn't find as much to take pictures of.

We did find some unnaturally beautiful and bright rocks next to a neighbor's mailbox. It made me remember several art projects with rocks that I want to try with my kiddos.

Fun little burst of color.

 

Can we go in yet? 

 

Then we found this:

Whatever it was, it looked really gross!

So of course the kiddos wanted a picture!

"Tree snot" was our name for it.

Seriously, what is wrong with this tree?

Or could this be normal and we've just never noticed it before?

 

Always an adventure on the Sunday walk!