Fall celebration at Parker Mill

Making our tax dollars work for us—we've certainly gotten our allotment of fun out of the county parks service this year. We've always enjoyed hiking the area parks, and we've attended a handful of their events in the past, but this is the first year that we've participated quite so heavily. Or maybe they are offering more events this year, because we've enjoyed guided hikes and naturalist education programs almost once a week since mid summer.

The other amazing thing about is that there are still parks we have never visited. Today was fall celebration day at Parker Mill Park, a new one on us. It started chilly and a little damp, but the sun finally came out while we were making bird houses and fall crafts. We shelled corn, ran the mill stones, and watched a heron fish on our way to the head race. It was a good day.