Easter pics

For some reason, out of the whole year of photos, somehow my Easter pictures end up being the best. Despite being a pretty secular bunch, something about getting everyone together, and the traditions of the egg hunt for the kids and brunch for everyone else lend themselves to good picture-taking. As the kids are getting older, though, they get faster, and it's harder to catch them in the act. I did get a few good ones this year, though...

Sofia, waiting in the gates for the fun to start:



Julien goes for the tough ones first:



Sofia digs deep:



Julien hits the front yard for better pickings:



And then gets very serious about candy unwrapping:



I didn't get many decent pictures of the cousins this year - they were moving too fast - but here's Luther finding an egg:



And Julien and Ramona eating watermelon:



Fun Easter, all in all, and a perfect day for it.

Nature walk

We got out for a little walk with the kids this morning, before the heat of the day, at a Northwest Reno park called Dorostkar Park. We hadn't really been to this park before, but it turned out to have a really cool little nature walk on an island-ey kind of thing between the main part of the Truckee River and a side channel. Here's the bridge over the channel to the start of the trail:



Julien got to see some interesting plants:



And he insisted we take a picture of this cool grass:



We also found this big clump of bees inside a bush. Not sure what was going on with that, but they were really interested in whatever was in there. Click on this picture to enlarge and see the bees, it's worth it...



Sofia was dawdling, and I hung out with her...



But that let me take some fun pictures of her, like on the bridge crossing back over:



And on a rock with a stick back near the car. Very entertaining, that rock and stick...