Seining – A Family Event at Church

Posted by Cindy on July 23, 2009

Most of you probably remember that my husband is the youth minister at our church.  We try to be as family oriented in our activities as possible, making sure there is at least one family event per month.  This month’s event was planned by a very neat family that used to homeschool and love the outdoors.  We went seining in the creek on our church’s farm!

(Seining for sport is actually not legal in Kentucky, but fear not, we were only seining for educational purposes.  All the “catches” were put back into the creek unharmed.)

Our big “kids” – my husband and the gentleman who planned the event – enjoyed the seining tremendously.  Everyone else did, too – for a time.  Then there were bigger and better things to tackle.

Here are a few nature shots I took while I waited on the creek’s edge with Eli.

And here’s Eli deciding his turn had come to get in the water.

A wonderful time of food and fellowship ended the evening.  What better way to worship God than enjoying His creation with brothers and sisters in Christ?

May’s Creation Club

Posted by Cindy on May 20, 2009

This month’s Creation Club focus was on creeks and creek banks.  Sadly, though, the creek bank was grown up more than I had imagined and we didn’t get to do nearly as much exploring as planned.  For me, it didn’t matter because I can enjoy any nature walk.  For the children expecting to explore a creek in wet and wild ways, they were a bit disappointed.  Below are a few pictures from our walk.

These were bright red mushrooms!

This one is bright red, too, although the color didn’t show up quite as well in the picture.  See the little snail sitting on it?  Can you see the worm holes in the wood?

This was found in the yard once we returned.  Our best guess is a Brown Headed Cowbird.  Any other suggestions?

And this one wasn’t found yesterday, but I couldn’t resist posting it.  We found it at Melissa’s house this week when we went for a visit.  It’s a cowboy hat shaped mushroom!  Eli tried to pick it up to put it on his head!