Outdoor Hour Challenge: Crop Plants #1 Clover

This picture illustrates the closest we have been able to get to Clover this week, and certainly not from a lack of trying. We've checked all the yards around us, the church, elementary school and a couple parks, and they must all be very well taken care of or so new clover hasn't found its way into them. (And yes, that is my toddler dancing on the counter in the background!)

I think my neighbors are starting to wonder what we are up to walking through lawns with our heads bent in concentration. I didn't think clover would be this hard to track down, but we will keep looking for it in the coming weeks. It puts our plans to pick and dry some for our nature journals on hold for now. The kids decided to draw four-leafed clovers instead. I wonder if a few of the farm fields around us are growing red clover or alfalfa-- I guess we will have to stop and check soon.

In the meantime the kids continue to explore the world around them-- watching and catching grasshoppers and other bugs, playing in the mini "river" we have running through our backyard by building dams and making boats to race, and helping in the yard and garden.

The river is the result of our yard being the lowest on our street, and our next door neighbors over-watering their lawn (I think it goes through the watering cycle 4 times a day!!).