Quarry Hill Nature Center Cave Visit...

This Friday Sammy went to the Quarry Hill Nature Center for a cave exploration. His friend Shannon came as well as Tom, Linda M, Jessica, and Linda R. The staff and volunteers put on a great tour with some dressing up as animals: a great horned owl, a raccoon, a bat, and finally a skunk.

Sammy...

A naturalist with a Screech-owl...

Sammy and Shannon spot something (or someone) in the tree...



The crowd looks up...

A Great Horned Owl perched in a tree...
Told us many things except...
how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop...

Michele & Sammy...

Shannon & Linda...

A hungry raccoon...

Entering the cave...

This cave was dug out of sandstone...
...heck, just read the photo itself...

Inside the cave...

Sammy enters the cave...

It was pretty dark in there...
...the flash on the camera suggests otherwise...
...Sammy with a flashlight...

A silly skunk demonstrates what skunks do...
...but using a water bottle instead...

Michele & Sammy...

Angry taxidermy inside the nature center...scary!!!

And under-fed bat...

Picking Apples With Shannon...

Today was a perfect autumn day. We went to Mazeppa to pick apples with Shannon and her parents Tom and Linda. A beautiful day. Here's a video and then some photos...

Trick and Treat w/Shannon

The same as last year, this year Sammy went trick or treating with Shannon. Batman and Tuck the Turtle (crafted by Tom himself) braved the cold winds and hit the houses in our neighborhood.

Superheroes were rewarded for protecting the city...

A giant bumblebee gave gifts to our heroine and hero...

Support your local superhero...

Tom, Linda and Shannon...

...and Tom's Halloween costumery...

You got a friend in me...

Sammy was the Lone Ranger for Halloween this year. His friend Shannon was an astronaut. She and her parents (also known as Linda & Tom) came over tonight for some trick-or-treating. When they stood next to each other, it was kind of like "Toy Story" with Buzz(ette) Lightyear and Woody.

Both Shannon and Sammy had a great time trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. The weather was perfect...dry, in the 60s...the leaves were crunchy under our feet.

Shannon and Sammy-er--the Lone Ranger...

They tend to get silly when together...

A picture perfect evening for Halloween...

Getting the candy...

The pleasant Plum Witch presented peanut butter candies while the postiched puppy played...

Comparing their loot...

Who was that masked man?