Natick Community Organic Farm Spring Spectacular

I'll say this for the frozen North, once Spring finally comes, it is well celebrated.  We headed out to our second Spring celebration, this time at the Natick Community Organic Farm.  It's a small farm associated with the town of Natick, practically on the grounds of a public school.  Why didn't we have this in Arkansas?

We started out with a little hay ride...

...and then found our way to the grounds of a preschool program held on the farm.  I'd actually heard about this program before somehow.  Only a few kids and they spend almost all their time outside, no matter what the weather.  Lots of helping on the farm and mucking around.  Mothers are encouraged to bring a change of clothes when they pick their kids up because the kids get so messy.  Sounds great for the right kind of kid.  Frances was a big fan of their swing, just a ring suspended from a wire stretched between two trees.

She was on this thing for quite a while.

Hey, Sir, can we get one in Maine, please?  Frances would love you forever.

Eventually, she was coaxed away from the swing and on to the horse.

She was interested in this house for about five seconds.  I thought it was pretty cool, myself.

Back at the Spring Spectacular proper, Frances homed in on the face painting.  She must have asked ten times during lunch when it was her turn to get painted.  I present Frances, The Butterfly.

And we wrapped up with some bunnies and...

...poppies.

At the last minute, Frances tried to make friends with a cow.  The cow took one look at Frances and bellowed.  Ever have a cow bellow about two feet from your face?  It is very loud and Frances was not pleased.  She screwed up her face and screamed.  Her parents were chatting with some other attendants and didn't immediately clue in to Frances's distress.  She spent the rest of the morning telling us about the time the cow moo'ed and she cried (alone).  Sorry about that, kiddo.