Making Time For Our Dogs At Moss Lake...part 2

We continue along and you will notice Jenny is on a retractable leash. Normally we don't leash Jenny on walks like these. Her walking habit is to stay right on our heels, sometimes so close to Dave or me that it is hard to even see her when we turn around! But with Jenny's eyesight getting really bad she has been having some trouble in the last few months with seeing us under certain lighting conditions and she has even been confused and gotten tripped up by bushes and separated from us so we now keep her connected to us with a leash. Jenny says "leash or no leash just don't leave me at home". We think she would want to go for her daily walk even if she was in complete blackness, she just enjoys being in the mix so much. She is such a good little girl.

reminder of days gone by....

Liza LOVES water and she is always the first one to explore a small pond or stream. She will wade way in up to her tummy even, hoping to find something she can hunt. She has never caught anything but she would do this for hours if we didn't have 4 other dogs wanting to motor on. Sometimes we will let her do this to her heart's content. It is really fun to watch her.

I think she hears a bird in the distance.

A friendly natural arbor welcoming us along the way.

We love the deciduous trees on this trail, big leaf maple, cottonwood, and these alder are gorgeous with their new spring green leaves.

Not possible to capture how pretty this little brook is, the water trickles into a small pool and makes the most beautiful sound. That and the birds singing in the background really made for a dreamy afternoon.

We come to a newly cut trail! How fun. We don't have any horses with us so it is safe for us to explore what the volunteers have made. It is always so amazing to me that volunteers will come out and cut new trails in these places so there are so many more options for loops and short or long-cuts. This trail was really done well, kudos to whoever built it!

Tim don't pee on the Zen rocks! He didn't.

As I was taking a photo of this cool mossy tree we heard a commotion up ahead and hurried to see what on earth was going on with Tim and Liza off trail....can you guess what it was?

Tim and Liza had been thrashing about in these bushes and going back and forth. Birdie even got in on the action. If you guessed they were crittering then you would be right.

 Tim was REALLY focused!

He stayed here quite a long time waiting for whatever it was to come out, which of course it didn't.

Oh hi mom, I wasn't doing anything....

 

As you can see he got pretty worked up.

No critter was harmed and to be sure of that we decided it was time to get back on the trail and do some more exploring of this new trail. Birdie says "mom I think there is something ahead you might be interested in".

This video gives you an idea of how pretty this new trail is.

  

In my next post there will be a bit of a photo shoot, stay tuned...