Flowers and Raspberries

Anna just loves to pick flowers, weeds, grass, leaves, raspberries.... you name it. Walking anywhere with her is a slow process - there is plenty of time to smell the roses, so to speak. She stops to pick up a fallen leaf off of the sidewalk only to stop after another two steps to pick up a different leaf, and then a different one again. I've been trying to figure out what it is about a particular leaf that she is drawn to. Is it bigger than the others? Is it a prettier colour, or is it less damaged? But, I think that it is simply that everything is so interesting and new to her, that she can't bear to pass them by.


Today we spent a little time in the back garden, and there she picked some flowers,



some dandelion seed heads,


some apples,


and some raspberries.