A quick post on my observations this week. I have no idea what this plant is… But look at the beautiful way it seeds – suspended between two wings while the holding frames move further and further apart. I’ve never seen a plant that seeds this way; such a beautifully imagined process and the orderliness […]
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I have a backlog of photos from this month’s nature days so this will be more of a photolog than a blog post. Lots of interesting things to see! This is a firewheel flower my son found that had an unusual extra flower growing out of the side of it. This set of pictures is
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We recently headed back to a local creek for nature study. There’s so much here that we’ve discovered over the years. Giant water bugs are smaller this time of year. Early last year we wondered what they ate in this creek since there didn’t seem to be anything else of significant size. Then we found
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Caspers Wilderness Park, located on Ortega Hwy (a freeway alternate to the Inland Empire that winds through the Santa Ana mountains and spits you out in Lake Elsinore) is one of the places that really starts getting you into the local mountains of Orange County. I recently took the kids to their Wildflower event and
My, this blog is sorely neglected lately! I have a million thoughts in a day to share and always good intentions to do so, and then of course real life ends up taking precedence. Let’s see, I thought I’d post about grammar a while back to tell you how I was caught completely off guard
Someone recently asked a question about Nature Study in the AO Yahoo group and after looking into it more, I posted a response, which I’d like to post here for the sake of sharing and also to be able to refer back to again in the future. I don’t know that my answer is ‘correct’
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My images from our nature outings frequently pile up so rather than waiting for a blog topic to post them, I think I’ll just start posting them as Nature Finds with the date to simplify things. Speaking of nature, if you haven’t seen this article on sand over at Circe, it’s fascinating; you won’t want
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After all, what is the chief sign of growing old? Is it not the feeling that we know all there is to be known? It is not years which make people old; it is ruts, and limitation of interests. When we no longer care about anything except our own interests, we are then old, it
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We headed to the Fullerton Arboretum this past week for Nature Study. There were orchards with ripening fruit an Ombu tree a shady creek with freshwater clams! and rocks for baby boys to go ‘kerplunk’ and cool water for darling big sisters to dip their baby brothers’ feet in and bamboo shoots to delight little
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For sometimes when we wonder, we can make things begin to happen. ~Teacher in The Wheel on the School by Meindert DeJong Once or twice a year our little nature study group gathers at a coffee shop in the evening without the children to talk and plan through nature study locations, field trips and events