Exploring the low Platte River

We went exploring on Saturday. We tromped along a path in the brush from a friend's house to the Platte, and spent a few hours playing in the river. Initially, the kids were disappointed that there was almost more sand than water. Then they started discovering things: a small crawfish, paw prints from deer, foxes and raccoons, a stick that looks just like Harry's wand, a rock worn perfectly smo...