Two brothers after church

After church, the boys like to go into the church garden, and play for a while before we leave. They play a game of "collect the pine cones", and there are plenty of pine cones on the grass, and buried in the grass. Gabriel once went to the edge of the garden, where there is a little wood, and he caught poison ivy, which he didn't really care about much. He seems to always have bumps or scratches on him somewhere. (I think in the main photo for this post you can actually see the remnants of a swollen Gabriel got in the schoolyard, where a friend ran into him inadvertently.) Or, they play one of their favorite games, "touche-touche" (tag), and they use one of a pair of tall trees in the middle of the garden for the "maison" (the base).