Posted in Birding, Locally grown, Moderation and Economy, Nature Table, Outings, Uncategorized on Aug 6th, 2009
Some more shots from yesterday’s trip to Sauvie Island Farms.
Little Hen in the raspberry canes,
where we found an old abandoned nest, lined with feathers and seed fluff.
Firecracker helped her auntie pick blueberries.
And the flowers were absolutely stunning.
The biggest surprise of the day was finding a nest with four baby birds in the middle of the [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning, Nature Table on Aug 1st, 2009
The Magic Onions is hosting a Friday Nature Table group. I should have posted yesterday, but life got busy, so for us, it’s a Saturday Morning Nature Table sharing.
This was a great idea – I was able to catch up on a LOT of blogs I haven’t had the time to get back to in [...]
Posted in Building Community, Locally grown, Nature Table, Outings, Playing/ Free Exploration on Jul 17th, 2009
Little Hen has been at Waldorf Art Day Camp (and thus immersed in magical-make-believe) for the past two weeks, . Her sister misses her terribly while she’s gone (”Is it time to pick up sissy yet? Is it time to pick up sissy yet???”), but we’ve been trying to do something special in the mornings [...]
Posted in Learning, Moderation and Economy, Nature Table, Playing/ Free Exploration on Jun 12th, 2009
The girls were playing with a box of shells from the nature table – just looking them over, talking about the colors and shapes of each shell. They spent a long time handling the shells, discussing them.
Then, Firecracker found this in the box, held it up and shouted, “A DRAGON SCALE!! A REAL LIFE DRAGON [...]
Posted in Changing Seasons, Crafting, Learning, Nature Table, Our home, Outings, Playing/ Free Exploration, Working the earth/harvesting its bounty on May 31st, 2009
While not technically summer, the very warm, sunny weather of late has been pointing us in that direction. The girls and I have cleared away the spring table and begun to gather items for our summer table. It’s just beginning to take shape – rocks from a nature hike, sweet alyssum from the yard, beeswax [...]