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Montessori Monday

  First off, thank you to all who replied last week.  You gave me some good things to think about.  As a result, I have some new blog post ideas swirling around in my head.  Look for them actuall… more →

Barefoot in Suburbia

ESCAPE: RETURN — 53 comments

bluebrightly wrote 5 days ago: A small escape – to a local garden at the height of spring – can also be a return.  A re … more →

Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, Garden, Philosophy, bellevue botanic garden, Daily Post, Flowers, Iris, Peony

Springtime along Kensington's Deer Run Trail — 1 comment

Kathi wrote 1 week ago: Did I mention that my daughter, Kathy, and her husband are expecting a son in September? Did I menti … more →

Tags: Michigan Beauty and Fun, seasonal pictures, Beauty Around the World, pictures of flowers, Kensington Park; Deer Run Trail; hepatica; trillium; ch, sand hill cranes; Kensington Metro Park; parks in the D

Lilith Watching — 11 comments

beebeesworld wrote 1 week ago: School was out for the summer at last. Families toured  the bird reserve. Everyone seemed happy, exc … more →

Tags: arachnids, Children, Fiction, gardening, Prompts, Seasons, Memories, spiders, 20 lines or less

Commercialized Holidays — 6 comments

beebeesworld wrote 1 week ago: Valentines Day, Mothers, Day, Fathers Day, so many more. What if we don’t get a Valentine or b … more →

Tags: Children, Grandchildren, Memories, Prompts, Holidays, postaday, gardening, HOPE, Love

PATTERNS — 38 comments

bluebrightly wrote 1 week ago: This week’s Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge  is Pattern.  It’s everywhere. Ponder this … more →

Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, Philosophy, Botanical, cactus, Daily Post, fern, foliage, Jason Silva

I Love Homeschooling Because...

tadtown wrote 2 weeks ago: We can go down to the beach on a beautiful Friday morning and be the only people there. There is not … more →

Tags: Family, Crystal Cove State Beach, homeschooling benefits

ABOVE IT ALL - BUT JUST A LITTLE — 33 comments

bluebrightly wrote 2 weeks ago: Another Photo Challenge is sparking ideas and sending photographers hunting for images taken “ … more →

Tags: Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, Reflection, Starfish, Mushroom, Daily Post, Flower, Maidenhair fern, Captiva Island

What I'm Looking At — 25 comments

bluebrightly wrote 4 weeks ago: A State Park with fantastic rock formations, a birch grove unfurling chartreuse leaves, a sod farm, … more →

Tags: Photography, Pacific Northwest, Rural, Larrabee State Park, sandstone, Mercer Slough, bellevue botanic garden, Skunk Cabbage, Fidalgo Island

California Wildflowers — 1 comment

tadtown wrote 1 month ago: Autry was reading a favorite old book today, The Daring Book for Girls, and she came across the sect … more →

Tags: Autry, nature preserve, Homeschooling, Daring Book for Girls, Flower Crown, California Wildflowers

Free Tree/Plant Study Pages

rcwriter wrote 1 month ago: Notebooking with Nature Study … Free Plant & Trees Nature Study Gift, 50% off Nature Study, New … more →

Tags: homeschool tools, notebooking pages, notebook nature study, plants and trees nature study notebooking pages, notebooking pages sale

CHANGING TIDES — 41 comments

bluebrightly wrote 1 month ago: Tides nourish the land, and their dependable changes remind me that if life is difficult now, it wil … more →

Tags: Pacific Northwest, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge, beach, Florida, Puget Sound, Daily Post, Deception Pass, coast

Not Just a Walk in the Park — 61 comments

bluebrightly wrote 1 month ago: The city of Kirkland, a suburb sitting straight across Lake Washington from Seattle, isn’t the … more →

Tags: Photography, Pacific Northwest, wildflower, Nature, fern, forest, spring, Photogrpahy, native plant

Turf Wars at Home and Abroad — 2 comments

Kathi wrote 1 month ago: With one son in Israel and another son headed to Korea this summer,I’ve been thinking a lot ab … more →

Tags: Critters, Current Events, North Korea; pictures of birds; pictures of Canada gees, Kim Jung-un; Sea of fire, Seoul, Korea

Looking at Palms — 31 comments

bluebrightly wrote 1 month ago: All of the images above were taken a few years ago, at the Edison and Ford Winter Estates in Fort My … more →

Tags: Photography, art 2, Florida, Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, New York Botanical Garden, Edison Ford Estate, Fort Myers, Palm tree, arecaceae

Requiem for a Sycamore and Poplar Tree — 11 comments

beebeesworld wrote 1 month ago: Fifteen years ago, my dad had to cut down a Sycamore, giant and majestic, that he had planted when h … more →

Tags: Children, Grandchildren, Nostalgia, awards and prompts, History, Seasons, Struggles, HOPE, gardening

Look Up, Look Down - Early Spring Delights — 33 comments

bluebrightly wrote 1 month ago: *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** … more →

Tags: Photography, Garden, Nature, Flowers, fern, Wildflowers, spring, bellevue botanic garden, Trillium

My Track Record from the Long Winter — 2 comments

Kathi wrote 1 month ago: While Michigan was busy trying to set records for snowfall this winter, I contented myself by trying … more →

Tags: Science, home-schooling, bird tracks, cat tracks, Identifying common animal tracks; deer tracks; dog trac, Mouse Tracks, Opossum Tracks, Skunk tracks, turkey tracks; tracking animals in the snow; Genesis 1:

Early Spring — 34 comments

bluebrightly wrote 2 months ago: I took a walk through Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle…Spring’s beauty is here. * * … more →

Tags: Photography, Garden, Seattle, Flowers, Daffodils, Maidenhair fern, spring, cherry blossoms, Washington Park Arboretum

So This is Spring?!? — 6 comments

Kathi wrote 2 months ago: Spring has officially sprung by the calendar, but here in Michigan I’m gazing out on a blanket … more →

Tags: Around Home, Just For Fun, Michigan Beauty and Fun, Music, Photography, seasonal pictures, Isaiah 61:11, Disney's Cinderella; So This is Love; pictures of sprin


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