Urban Nature!

Today we had a day out to Bath to explore the more urban side of nature!

We visited The Parade Gardens which was such a beautiful place! With the natural tones of the limestone walls complimenting the gorgeous flowers and trees growing it really is quite spectacular in the June sunshine.

As part of ‪#‎30dayswild‬ , we are aiming to educate our selves and our children on nature in the world around us. Today, we wrote a log book of our findings! Including an acrostic activity where we wrote the words 'Spring' and 'Summer' and found an item to fit each letter. This was a brilliant activity for my eager 3 year old to keep her mind active and her eyes open!

As you can see from our log book and the photographs , we were very busy! When you think of a city the size of Bath, you may think that nature has been removed to allow us to live ours lives. What we found was quite the opposite.

Stopping to look at the buildings, we noticed Ants making their homes in cracks in the pavements, Daisies growing against lamposts in small patches of dirt. Dandelions growing in groomed gardens and window boxes.

Next time you are in an urban environment and find you are surrounded by bricks,cars and metal- have a look a little bit closer and see what you can see living !

XxP&TxX

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