Hide and Seek

As we left the house, I told D it was supposed to go up to 39 degrees today. "That's pretty warm," he said with five year-old authority. "And in the woods it will be even warmer." "Probably so," I said, "why do you think?" "Because all those trees block the cold," he quickly answered.

No thickets in today's woods, just lots and lots of tall old trees, many of them oak, and leaves deep enough to level out the hollows. We climbed and played hide and seek. It did seem warmer. The best way to hide was to snuggle right up against a big trunk and try to stop panting from having run there. No one stayed lost.

(Thanks to the folks over at Thing-A-Day
for their inspiration. Thanks in part to them, I've created something
every day this month (so far), and the proof is over here.)