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  • spinnnnnnn art! We did salad spinner art yesterday! We bought a $3 salad spinner and a pack of 4X6 blank index cards. We brought them home, stuck a wad of modeling clay to the back of the card, and…

  • "playground geometry" (got the math in for the day! Phew!)

  • max telephoto on a bike.... The kids and I rode to the library on our bikes the other day. Ds rides his own, but dd (who rides her own bike for 10 feet and then says she is done) manages to squeeze into the baby sea…

  • Phew! Busy, busy day! Coming up for a breath...then plunging back into life. "after the muffins" Daily Haiku's Thursday Thinker asks, "What would you do with 5 million dollars?" 5 million dollars …

  • Roses are everywhere! I've noticed this week that roses are bursting out all over...in all of the lawns, draping over the fences, climbing walls and trellises.... Here's one of my own...I don't know what k…

  • "Tuesday Twofer" haiku today: perpendicular- living at the equator living at the pole are these two people living in right angle planes to one another? daily haiku Hmmm.....

  • Sunday Gardening and Monday Moments... I got in the garden for some much-needed weeding yesterday. We have the cooler weather things going well...bok choy (Chinese cabbage) and radishes, spinach, and strawberries. T…

  • Flat Stanley Update Stanley has arrived to his first destination, and is having fun with friends in the UK! Can Stanley come and visit you? Click on the link above for details....

  • Moonlight Sonata.... A storm rushed through last night,,,dropping frosty rain from wind-whipped clouds.. Here are some pictures at bedtime: This was taken with a 13 second exposure..(on a tripod) You can se…

  • Daisy Craze! Ok..I just have to say that I love daisies. They are so unassuming, but have such stunning, simple beauty. I love how their pedals reflect the light. I love how fresh they look. There was a bunch at …

  • To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -Henri Bergson wisdomquotes.com

  • sweet, sticky rice cake peanut butter and jelly midnight snack for two (why am I still up?) fatigued, froggy-eyed female, forgoing fettered forty winks...farewell! (I used a thesaurus for that one) daily…

  • breakfast time at f 2.8 to 4.0 I was playing with shallow depth of field, and trying to get a handle on the manual focus mode on my new camera, while waiting for the french toast to cook. . This was yesterday mornin…

  • bottles, variation 2 Daily Haiku's word of the day: "character" So here are my three: the baffling job of raising kids to adults builds my character Bam! The door opens pictures fly off the wa…

  • Shalom and Yum! We visited the Jewish Festival held at the JCC in Tucson yesterday. They made the biggest snocones we have ever seen. Photoshopwise, I used the solarize filter again, and then I added a bit of…

  • Daily Haiku's challenge: "Sunday Sermons" folded laundry: rare like spiritual clarity, moments to cherish daily haiku

  • an abrupt and chaotic fledging... The finches have left the nest! It happened very suddenly this morning....I saw the whole thing happen from my kitchen window as I was getting some pictures. Here is the last fami…

  • bella birdy blog...... I love April evenings! Here's some photos from the other evening, when I stepped out into the driveway for a few minute..... The first bella...our new moon setting in the west. anot…

  • lingering minimalism in the kitchen... with special guest photographer, KellySAHM! Kelly was good and ready to participate in the April photo blog-along, but her lovely strawberry here was **trapped** inside h…

  • Stanley is excited that he can go visit so many friends! Thanks you all who invited Stanley into your homes! He is up for more company...so if you want to join in, see the post below. The baby finches are getting…

  • Where in the World is Flat Stanley???? Flat Stanley Flat Stanley is traveling the world, as he visits friends everywhere. He usually goes by mail, (as he did in the childrens' book, Flat Stanley) and hangs with…

  • Today's daily haiku is strange and morbid, but it an event that happened last night. It's "Tuesday Twofer" day, but I needed a double twofer to tell the story. What does it mean symbolically? flapping, struggle,…

  • Daily Haiku's challenge is writing about a friend, family member, or co-worker...this should be fun! my sister; seeking the shape of her puzzle piece figuring it out daily haiku

  • My, how they've grown! (-: It's amazing how loooong baby bird necks are. I wonder if the neck grows faster than any other part of their bodies at first? According to a field guide from the library, the birds …

  • to everything, there is a season... tulip........ daffy..... And the circle begins again....baby finch pictures... Peek-a-boo! See the little face peeking over the nest? This was one of those o…

  • hellooooo babies! A few sneaky pictures..... A stealth shot...over my head aiming down in the nest while Mama went for some food. No flash was used, so they are hidden in the shadows. We think there are three…

  • thank you, photobloggers! What a great turnout it was! Thank you for joining in the fun! And thanks to those who dropped by to say hi as you roamed among all the photoblogs. We will be doing another one in May, I…

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