Shades Park 9-16-12

Picture here of Shades Park!  What a lovely day!

*In Process

Dh took a photo of Dd and I going up the stairs

Two of my favorites: lichen and ferns--together!

Dh and Dd always have to make a dame where-ever we go!

My favorite view!

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Nature In Art: Images of nature objects from 'Tree' focusTrees

Class 2 of Nature in Art

We discussed, and drew from tree inspired items.  One student brought in a sunflower, and my Dd brought in some oak leaves with some acorns attached to it.  Our first class was on Insects and I brought in a large glass jar of caterpillars, and some 'trays' of dead insects that I've preserved nicely over the years of many varieties of insects.  I will try to do a post on the trays for that class later.

Here are a few pictures I took of the specimens I prepared the night before to take in to the class.  I had about 5 tables set up, with 4-7 different trays full of different nature things available for them to draw, touch, see, smell, etc.  I also brought in 2 different praying mantis's and they stole the show at one point (deciding during my lecture was a perfect time to eat off a grasshoppers head!)

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Bar B & M

Our HBHE had a fun event this week (9-17-12) to a local horse farm.  We went there last year too.  Barb and her husband, show us all around and we meet lots of horses.  We saw the different grains they eat, their hay, etc. etc. etc.  Then we all got to ride--moms included!

Here are a few pictures from our fun time:

Seeing the different grains the horses eat

Barb is the woman on the left that owns this business.

This is a Draft horse---he is HUGE!

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