Chestnuts in Arborland: A Walk In The Park

The other day was finally cool enough to take a walk, so we went for a stroll in Gallup Park by the Huron River.

We saw a number of baby ducks as well as full grown ones.

We saw a lot of fish.

And two families of swans!

Babies

Protective parents.

Second family.

There were a lot of nice flowers, both in and out of the water.

In other news, we've been rescuing some animals.

We found this Gray Tree Frog in a parking garage, so we caught him in a shoebox and drove him across town to live in the nature preserve by our house. I hope he found some friends there... We did some research before (Yay for iPhone!) and read that the nature preserve is exactly the kind of place his kind like to live.

We've also saved two turtles from getting run over. They seem to like to cross the busy street on the way to our garden. They jump down from the sidewalk on one side and move, surprisingly quickly, across the street but then get stuck on the sidewalk on the other side. We help them with a nudge over so they don't get squashed. This guy is a Painted Turtle.

Finally, our neighbor called the other evening and said she'd found a kitten on her front step. Her hubby is allergic, so we came to see if we could help. The kitten was incredibly sweet and it didn't look like he belonged to anyone close by so we planned to take him to the Humane Society when they opened the next morning. We kept him in our spare room for the night. It was a lot of fun to play with a kitten again, but our cat was pretty pissed at us for a few days, Mr. Hissy-Pants!

Our garden is doing well too. We've had a lot of wonderful tomatoes, peppers, and carrots. The potatoes are almost ready to be harvested and our corn has grown many ears. We also have two melons growing!