Look What the Rain Washed In

Found this guy on a muddy flooded trail after a rainstorm.

Stop! Who goes there!?!

This guy was guarding the trail and seemed to not want me to pass!

Geesh, share the road, buddy!

Cool Clear Water

Our campground in southern Indiana bordered

beautiful Hunter's Creek.

The creek is so clear

 

that you can see the minnows and this crawdad quite clearly.

 The creek and the surrounding area is filled with geodes

    Geodes are rocks that are plain on the outside but can have beautiful crystals on the inside.

In the Greek language, geode means "shape of the earth",

and geodes are round or oblong like an egg.

They can be a couple inches or several feet in size. 

Some geodes I collected.

Two that are broken open, revealing the crystals inside.

I also found these Indian beads

which are fossilized fragments of ancient sea plants.

Not only was it refreshing to wade in the creek on a hot day, 

but rewarding as well.

Feisty Fellow

Crawdad!This morning while walking, I came across this feisty fellow on the trail.
Crawdads, or crayfish, spend the winter under the mud and dig out in the Spring.

As I approached, he raised his claws threateningly at me.

So I helped him out by scooping him up on a piece of bark,

And carried him to the creek.
He didn't even thank me!