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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 — 51 comments

bluebrightly wrote 3 days ago: A small escape – to a local garden at the height of spring – can also be a return.  A re … more →

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

Lilith Watching — 10 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, 100WCGU, 20 lines or less, Bird Reserves

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, gardening, Grandchildren, Holidays, Memories, postaday, Prompts, 20 lines or less, commercilization

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

I Love Homeschooling Because...

tadtown wrote 1 week 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, above, Anthropologie, Captiva Island, Daily Post, Flower, goldfish, Hakone Grass

What I'm Looking At — 25 comments

bluebrightly wrote 3 weeks ago: A State Park with fantastic rock formations, a birch grove unfurling chartreuse leaves, a sod farm, … more →

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

California Wildflowers — 1 comment

tadtown wrote 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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, Birds, Captiva Island, change, coast, Daily Post

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

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

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: Garden, Photography, bellevue botanic garden, Blossoms, cherry trees, everett arboretum, fern, Flowers, Nature

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, Identifying common animal tracks; deer tracks; dog trac, cat tracks, Opossum Tracks, Skunk tracks, Mouse Tracks, vole tracks, weasel tracks

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, Disney's Cinderella; So This is Love; pictures of sprin, Isaiah 61:11


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