Sawhill Ponds and Knitting with Dinosaurs and Dragons

This last weekend was full of favorite activities. Knitting a new pair of socks while my granddaughter staged an elaborate drama on the kitchen table between dinosaurs, dragons, and Godzilla. I am in awe of her knowledge of dinosaurs and love it when she proclaims herself a T-Rex, stomping for emphasis. 

And then a Sunday hike through Sawhill Ponds, a wonderful bird sanctuary. In this approaching winter season everything is muted or going to seed. The cattails burst with brown fuzz and the milkweed pods are exploding with cream-colored down filled with seeds. My granddaughter stuffed my pockets with some of the down, with the purpose of making fairy beds later. And we tossed more of it up to the wind, to watch them lift into the air and scatter over the ponds.