Celebration weekend

In celebration of Robin's birthday (on Thursday) we went out geocaching on Friday (he took the day off for a 4 day weekend) and Saturday. These photos are from our morning at the Huron Nature Area.
Sunday we had cousins over for a turkey-free thanksgiving dinner. We enjoyed cranberry-BBQ meatballs, sausage stuffing, roasted orange veggies, sweet potato casserole, and jalapeno cornbread muffins for dinner. Dessert was apple-crisp pie and pumpkin pie with freshly whipped cream. All lovingly prepared by Robin and delicious - as usual.

A cache hidden in an old car - I have no idea what it's doing at the Nature Area...

We saw and 'rescued' (from the sidewalk) a few fuzzy caterpillars.

Guess who ended up having to transport Abi's stuffed animals, as usual.

It was a beautiful and scenic day.

Can you count the fishing lures/bobbing-things? (I don't fish, so I don't know proper terms.)

I was on the lookout for paw prints to prettify my Tread Softly pattern when I release the final version in January.

I spotted some prints on the path and upon closer inspection found this little guy. He was more interesting.

We saw a few monarchs, but often further away. Of course I didn't manage to get the camera out and to the right settings in time for a good, detail photo. But I rather like how this turned out.

Today we have another Thanksgiving dinner to attend with friends. This time with turkey.

I almost forgot to add this video from our outing. I always miss the original 'version' of what Abi's doing and it's never the same when I try and goad her to do the same thing for the camera.