February 2009
The Archives
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02.15.09The American White Pelican
Birds, nature study, Necessary Provisions (4)When we arrived at Charleston Slough in Palo Alto CA and Seth announced that he was going to observe pelicans I thought to myself...wow gotta respect the kid's enthusiasm. I grew up frequenting this marsh and I could not for the life of me recall a single pelican sighting. Seth has always had a thing for Pelicans. When he was a toddler he had a hard time keeping his sea creature nomenclature straight. So every time we would see pelicans he would yell, "look momma dolphins!" and point furiously at the sky. I guess Seth put enough enthusiasm out in ...
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02.13.09Happy Valentine’s Day!
Crafts, decorative arts, mom, xo (5)Right now, this very minute, the almond blossoms outside are shouting it... ...and so are the little boys, who made valentines last night from recycled volcano paper and lots of yummy, shiny, absolutely manly... GLITTER!!!!
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02.12.09shadow pictures
decorative arts, documenting nature, Winter (5)We made some shadow pictures with some slanted winter light.... ..which led to other peaceful diversions... Sun-sensitive paper is fun to play with, too. Have any of you painted shadows lately? Send us a link!
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