Feast of the Hunter's Moon

Feast of the Hunter's Moon
There was Fort Quiatenon that was a trading post between the Indians and the French back in the 1700's.  Each year in Lafayette, Indiana they hold a "Feast of the Hunter's Moon" to celebrate the past traditions.  The same indian tribe still own part of the property and take a big part of this event.  The fort is still standing; and many things have been dug up on the property that are interesting to us today.

Making Bread; one step at a time!

Father, Grandfather, and Great-Grandfather here--They were the best historians we met.  They were talking about the double cross--the necklace they are wearing--I'll have to do a seperate post all about it.

At the River Front:

The Wabash River

 Making Rope:

Cool little store on the way out:

More Specimen's!

Dd's Wedding Paper Outfits

Dd made these--first she had made the man's tux; then this week she made the woman's dress, veil, and train:

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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