Monday Afternoon, July 13

After leaving Great-grandma Hershey’s house, we went to Landis Homes to see Great-grandma High.

Heading toward her room.

We took Great-grandma for a walk to see the ducks, swans, and peafowl.

There was a visitor to the pond – a great blue heron.

I was pleased that it did not seem to be afraid of the humans on the other side of the fence.

This swan seemed to be in a nasty mood – chasing other water fowl out of the pond when we were there. The other swan just relaxed near the shore.

I think this was the male. He had his feathers ruffled during our entire visit to the pond.

The ducks tried to keep their distance from him.

We decided that he must be “king of the pond.”

Then we went to see the peacock.

We would have liked to see the peahen and her babies, but they stayed in their pen. We could see them through the small entrance area, but they could not be photographed.

Jared found a wounded butterfly and cared for it a bit.

You may remember that in my description of him last night, I mentioned that he liked critters.

We enjoyed supper in the Café where the children could chose from a wide variety of food.

We all had a good day. I think it was good for the children and the great-grandmas.

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You will have to come back tomorrow night to see what we did on day two.