Literally. We took a family trip to East Sandwich today and after three delightful hours at the Sandy Neck beach, we took a walk around the Smiling Pool at the Green Briar Nature Center. The "pool" is officially named, "Boiling Springs Pond," but it has a vague U-shape, which is why it is "smiling." [Note: I would have named this blog "smilingpool" if it hadn't been claimed already]
The partial literalization of this blog [the Laughing Brook is a Mass Audubon property out west] deserves some ceremony, I suppose. And in fact, four-year-old Lily was quite entranced by the idea of Peter Rabbit and his friends. We heard a frog by the pond, which I immediately labeled "Grandfather Frog," and Lily desperately wanted to see him. We never ended up with a solid frog sighting but we did see and hear frogs jumping in the pond, so that counted. Now she wants to find Jimmy Skunk.
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