More Fine Weather

Yesterday and today were both very nice after another bought of cruddy weather. We had a good time at Chickies Rock County Park and Lake Grubb. We did a short hike at Chickies Rock (so named from a Native American "Chiquesalunga" which meant "place of the crayfish" - see link above) out to an overlook of the Susquhanna River.

Owen tasted honeysuckle nectar for the first time and loved it.

We also picniced there and walked along a creek where. . .

. . . we saw a garter snake.

Since we didn't find any fishing spots, and Owen was really keen to fish, we stopped at Lake Grubb on the way home. Owen was really patient about reeling in the line each time and wanted to cast on his own. He also like picking though the tackle box.

We saw two more snakes while we were there - a water snake of some sort that passed us in the water three times while Owen and Abram were fishing and a black rat snake (about four feet long) that slithered slowly across the path as we hiked the trail around the lake.