Summer Begins Part 2

We took Mikayla to the mountain because she had not been to the ranch yet. Being up there brings back so many memories of growing up and spending some of the summer up there. She loved being outdoors all day. She is definitely not an indoor girl.

Here Mikayla is with the stick that Nana gave her. She is admiring the flowers. Mikayla always had a stick in her hand. If she lost it, or a caterpillar happened to crawl on it, she needed a "new stick".
Nana and Mikayla are finding and smelling the wild irises.

Pampa and Mikayla are standing by sign that my dad had made for the spring he made so that the deer would always have somewhere to drink, even in a drought. It is so pretty up there. He named it after my grandma.

Matt, Mikayla, and Pampa are looking at the logs getting ready to be loaded up soon. Isn't it amazing that all of these logs needed to be thinned so that the land can be healthy and not overgrown. It looks so much better in the areas that have been thinned.

Mama and Mikayla sitting on a rock by one of the streams. In this stream is a threatened fish. Which means there are only about 1000 of them left, so they are on their way to being endangered, and this particular stream has about 250 of the 1000 left.