Lady and Lost Maples

If you want to see Fall colors in San Antonio you have to travel about two hours to a place called Lost Maples State Natural Park.  There you will see as much Fall foliage as you will get in these parts.

We made the trek on Saturday with our new dog Lady and the kids.  After getting pulled over in one of the many small towns on the way for speeding and getting a warning, we arrived. The trail was about a 4 mile loop but we only made it about 1/2 way because it was just too much fun to climb on the big boulders and play around.

Cami has talked about how much she misses the Autumn chill in the air and the colors so even if the color was brown it seemed different and beautiful to us.

Lady, is the newest member of our family.  We rescued her from a shelter out in the country about a week ago.  She is a bit timid about some things but loved the water and chasing the little fish that were in it.

Orange leaves, WOW!

Mom and her Lady.

This was a place called Monkey Rock for some weird reason.  Makenna and Connor can't see something like this without trying to climb it.

Another of my little monkeys. 

Trying to show off but lacking the ability.

Playing in the honeycomb of rock.  There were tons of fossilized sea shells in this rock.

Hanging in the fields of gold.

More posing with the colors.

Just a boy and his Tootsie Pop.

Lady is black lab and something else with big ears.

Cheeeeeese.

The dry creek bed.

Mom and McKay as we were leaving the park.

Texas has the market cornered on creepy crawlys.  They have scorpions, biting fire ants and tarantulas. In church yesterday Connor was sitting in his classroom listening to the teacher, or so he says, when he put his hand under the chair rail that extends around the room and received his first scorpion sting.  I hope the offending scorpion was not part of the Geneva Convention seeking sanctuary in the church because it was soon just a smear on the floor.  Connor said that it was like a bee sting that lasted 8 hours.