The girl and I both love being barefoot! Often I try to encourage her to put her shoes on, but she always replies “where are yours?” I can’t blame her. I love feeling the earth under my feet.

Tonight we were sitting on the front porch with our bare toes in the grass. Suddenly, the girl exclaims “Oh no! We are going to get poison ivory!” I asked her why she thought that and she pointed to this plant:

I said “that’s not poison ivy, that’s clover”. To which she replied “but it has 3 leaves!”

I’m always amazed at what she remembers! We talked about poison ivy while we were in South Dakota. She certainly remembers “leaves of three leave it be”. At some point I will teach her the difference between leaves and leaflets…but not today.