Driving in a State Park

[lydamorehouse]

When Mason was 15 he got his learner's permit like most of his friends and then.... we utterly failed to learn to drive. I don't know what it was exactly, but it was a bad combination of my nerves, his nerves, and my tendency to be intuitive rather than practical when giving instruction. Whatever the reason we failed the first time, we've decided to give it another go.

Not to jinx anything, but this time it seems to be going swimmingly.

Part of it is that Mason is older and much more confident. Another part is that I am fully letting him set the pace. He recently graduated himself to lonely roads and I had the brilliant idea to drive to a State Park.


The St. Croix River from the Wild River State Park

This was a two-fer, as I got to see a State Park and Mason got in some really, really good practice, since we met  a bit of on-coming traffic (but of course it was all at 20 mph.) Mason even managed to safely stop in time to see...


Picture is blurry and taken through the window of the car, but fawn and adult deer in the road.

The fawn was so leggy that it was doing that awkward, could have been new born, WHAT ARE LEGS?? thing and then immediately collapsed in exhaustion once on the other side of the road and safely hidden by trees. Soooooo cute!

We mostly drove, but we checked out the whole park out, and I was surprised by this little gem. There were a number of people innertubing and otherwise enjoying the water, there's a huge section where the park rangers are restoring the prairie (and have been since the 1970s), and I presume some hiking to enjoy, though we never really stopped this time. I'm thinking this might be a fun park to return to, actually. 

Comments

[sartorias]

That fawn is such a darling!

[lydamorehouse]

I thought about trying to get a better picture by either getting out of the car or rolling down the window, but I decided that it was more fun to just be in the moment and watch!