Last Friday morning Lisa and I took a bike ride on the Chippewa Trail out to the Chippewa Nature Center and back.  It was a nice morning ride, winding through woods and along fields...5 miles out and 5 back.  Here are a few pictures:

The weekend before last we spent a few hours at the Fall Harvest Festival at the Chippewa Nature Center.  Some of the more memorable observations were of the guy scraping and preparing the skin of a bear that had been killed in the UP a few days before, Prairie Pete and Miss Sarah portraying early Michigan settlers, and the folks plowing the field with plows pulled by oxen.  We learned that the difference between cows and oxen is that oxen have been trained to pull the plow.

Here are a couple photos of the boys helping to back apple butter.

Here are some photos of the boys from last month on the first day of school.