Spring is Here!

My niece came out to visit the other day. We met for lunch in town to deliver some Girl Scout cookies with my granddaughter and decided it was a wonderful day to see the alpacas and hike to the bluff. I don't think you can see it too well with the sun in this picture but Jake had 'greeted' her by jumping up and his paws reach almost to her shoulders! Muddy paws on a white jacket and she's still smiling. I just love this girl :)

My little Muffin makes an extraordinary guide :) I don't think she was trying for camouflage when she chose her outfit though. She just can't help that she seems to be part wood nymph.
Oh, I do wish I still had her energy. She kept wanting to go the "interesting" way - translate that the longest, winding way possible without doubling back.

I couldn't get the pictures in this post to work the way I wanted and so some of them are fuzzy but this is my 'backyard' and on a beautiful spring day I can't think of much that I'd rather do than hike around out here!

You can just start to see the water from the river through the trees here.

This is overlooking the Katy Trail but I wouldn't want to climb down there from this vantage point.

Finally! The view from the top of the bluff. You can just about make out the next bluff
hanging over the trail and that's the Missouri River winding along it's way to the state capital.
When I was a girl, not much different than Muffin, there were still trains running on the tracks.

and looking back towards Rocheport a little more of the river.
I just love being home!