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Sunday, June 26, 2011

Wings in the Forest--A Garden Chronicle for 2011 (entry 13)



Sunflowers, Luna Moths, & Bees
--Oh My!
Signs of Summer are right on time



Nothing says Summer in the Garden like a Sunflower!!!



The lack of human activity
this week in the garden
has not kept
away the growth
of new vegetables.

The Farmer's Almanac
said this would be a two harvest
season for peas--guess what--
it was right, we are getting
blooms for another
crop of peas!








Lots of blooms, and little veggies that will
need little hands to harvest
them over the coming weeks!


I think I even saw a
tomato or two.





We saw several garden helpers--
honeybees!

Thank goodness there is an
active hive just steps away
from the garden at the





We found not one but two Luna Moths

It seemed that the Summer Solstice snuck up on us, but my children noticed the

sun was still up at bedtime this week--Did anyone else have similar observations?

I found this diagram of the seasons/axis tilt very helpful in explaining to my

children why the sun is sleeping less.

So if your children are sleeping less and spending lots of

time goofing around--they are right on track.

The world is alive and enthusiastic, let Nature be your guide.


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Sunday, June 19, 2011

Wings in the Forest--A Garden Chronicle for 2011 (entry 12)




The Sun was hard to find today--but it managed to
peak through the clouds a few times so we could
do some sundial work.








The younger ones made a sunclock with chalk and shadows!





Lots of critter collecting!



Some weeding...




okay, A TON of weeding!






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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Wings in the Forest--A Garden Chronicle for 2011 (entry 11)







We really started the sundial project this week,
it took some new and old heads coming together to
figure out how to read a sundial and where we
need to place our stones for our human sundial
.

J**** even figured out that our real
challenge is that the sundial does
not know daylight savings time.


Many were already studying sundials
at home and were anxious to learn more and move
forward with our project
.





Lots of water play!





Some old friends made some new non-human friends!
(look close at the green guy on his ear and head)


The good news we are adding a morning over the Summer so we
can beat the heat and water and weed those poor plants!

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Wings in the Forest--A Garden Chronicle for 2011 (entry 10)



Lots of growth!

Weeds are nature's graffiti. ~Janice Maeditere







New Friends...


Old Friends.








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