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Monday Memories? Wordy Wednesday?

I don't know...I'm all messed up here.  We spent yesterday morning tramping through Rowe Woods.  It was an unbelievably gorgeous day, hot for spring but sunny and delightful.  The grounds of the Cincinnati Nature Center are covered in daffodils.  Unfortunately, they weren't in profuse bloom yesterday but we did get to enjoy a fair number of them.  Apparently when the land was privately owned and someone lived on it, that someone planted many many daffodil bulbs and they spread and you have this marvelous display of daffodils.

Since this was the Nature Center, we also got to see many different kinds of wildflowers.  The hills were lush with one yellow one with dark green leaves.  I can't remember the name of them but Sarah does.  She said that they were outlawed in ancient Rome because wives could brew them into a tea and poison their husbands with them.  Come to think of it, were those the flowers that David would surreptitiously eat when we weren't looking?

Anyway, here are some pictures I took of our adventure in the woods yesterday.  This is the first time that we've gone to Rowe Woods and I didn't consult the map once.  We just bumbled around, enjoying the scenery.  If I had looked at the map, I might have noticed that we were taking the rock stairs of doom and I might have gone a different direction...one which would not have caused my calves to ache so intensely this morning.  Anyway, it was a marvelous time.

These are the infamous rock stairs of doom.  Pretty and unassuming, aren't they?  Don't you believe it!  We went down them to discover that the trail led over a stream.  It was not my idea of a good time to walk the twins across rocks over a rushing stream, so we went back up the rock stairs soon after having gone down them.

But, of course, they make for a wonderful photo op...

Does anyone know what this flower is?

Here are the flowers that were banned in ancient Rome, in case anyone wants to know for reasons which I won't ask about...

The children were pretty patient with my constant need for picture-taking.

And, of course, it was just warm enough for us to really appreciate an ice cream treat afterward...

Posted by Anonymous

Nice pictures! Yum UDF. Did I tell you about the guy who whistled at me at the UDF a couple weeks ago? I blushed about a thousand shades of red.