Fossil Creek

Syndi, Junior, Stephen and I trekked down to Fossil Creek from the park.
A plethora of stones lined the shore of the creek, and all the kids loved throwing rocks in, trying to make a big splash.
In this wide view of the first shot, you can see the creek is not that big.
You can see the rocky shore on the left. The boys kept throwing rocks, and Syndi actually found some shells.
I had to pull Stephen away from the water's edge a few times. He doesn't know enough to keep a safe distance. He's still in that "no fear" stage in most respects.

No, no...in this picture he's a safe distance. Unsafe was when he was less than a shoe length away from the water.
And Stephen has reeeeaalllly small shoes.
JuneBug looked for the best splash rocks.
Caught with the weapon in hand!
In color, too.
Here you see the tall bank on the opposite shore.
And yes, some Haltom City residents live up there.
I though it would be neat to take some black-and-white and some sepia shots.
I showed Syndi how to skip rocks, too.
They were all pretty fascinated by that.
It was windy and cold in the park, but 10 feet down in the creek bed it wasn't windy at all, so it was much nicer.
Friends walking along the shore line.After a while, we walked along the shore, following a path.
We found a ledge down by the water's edge, and the kids went out onto it. It was some kind of white deposit, but I'm no rock expert.
The kids searched, but didn't find many rocks for throwing here.
They had a lot of fun along the creek.
We climbed off the ledge, pushed through some brush (as the path disintegrated), and made our way up the embankment back into the park, where Mommy and Aunt Val had returned from shopping to pick us up.