Free Range Toddler

Out on a country walk today with Tiny in the backpack meant she got to be off the beaten track and experience new sights and sounds. We entered an ancient wood abundant with flowers such as the Early Purple Orchid, Viola, Bluebells, Primula, Cowslips, Harts-Tongue Fern and Lesser Meadow rue. We heard Curlews piping, jackdaws cawing, cascades of goldfinch song and the bleating of lambs. Letting Tiny down and out of the backpack meant she could explore new things such as some wee sticks that she found. She looked like a little hunter gatherer trying to start a fire with them. We then walked in our barefeet holding hands for quite a while over stone, moss and grass.