Sep. 3, 2007
A beautiful morning for nature journaling

Nature walks and nature journaling are one of the funnest parts of homeschooling, I think. 

Last Friday morning we all took some paper, colored pencils and a hard surface and headed out on a nature walk to look for something to observe and draw for our "nature journals", which have not been actually made yet!  I have a watercolor sketching book and watercolor pencils I bought last year for this purpose for myself, and I am going to have the girls just draw on copy paper so we can put it in another book later.  I stapled three sheets of paper together for 3dd3, who won't allow us to leave her out this year!

We didn't get far when we discovered a lovely place right across the driveway full of daisies, ferns and other plants in front of "Duda Hall".  Here are some pics I took of the girls.

The first two pics are of 3dd3.  Doesn't she look adorable drawing her pics sitting on the rock among the daisies?!

The second two pics are of Snow Crystal (2dd8).  I thought she looked so pretty with her long flowing skirt.  Her drawings were very sweet too.

The girl in pink is Mountain Princess (1dd9).  She impressed me by observing and writing down her observations.  For example she counted how many petals she found on the daisies, details about the bees and even the grass.

This last picture is of my poor petunias.  Can you guess what their problem is?  If you look close you will see that they are being eaten by chipmunks.  Everytime they blossom, the chipmunks come and eat the flower.  None of these flowers lasted till morning.  Of the twelve or so tomatoes that we got on our poor pathetic tomato plant, we got maybe four.  The chipmunks harvested the rest!  One of them they cut off, and I chased it away and brought the tomato inside to finish ripening.  It was still green, but about a week later we got a tasty ripe tomato.  The cute little vermin have gotten all the rest since then!

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into our love of nature.

Carol

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Sep. 3, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by MyChildrenAndMe

The girls are so cute with the daisy's wrapped around them.
Great pic's of them all, this is a great way to start off school.

Yes, I did add you into my friends & I'll update you into the side bar too.

Debbie

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Sep. 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ApplesofGold

Oh, Carol-those pictures of your daughters are gorgeous. They are all so beautiful!! Holly

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Sep. 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by SandBetweenMyToes

That looks like so much fun. The girls and the flowers are beautiful.

Letitia

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Sep. 4, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by ALadybug

Good pictures!!

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Sep. 4, 2007 - Beautiful

Posted by Anonymous

The pictures are lovely. dd3 is adorable. That must have been a real fun outing. Thanks for sharing it.

Cindy
www.homesteadblogger.com/highhopesacademy

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Sep. 5, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by H0MEFree

We love nature journaling, too! Wondering at God's creation... what better can we teach them aside from His love?
Happy NOT-Back-To-School!!

:)

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Sep. 5, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by bakerswife

Your nature photos are wondeful! The girls are enjoying warm sunny days.
Blessings, Mama Karen

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