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  • Going Home on Nov 24, 2009 in community home

    I expect to see lots of these today on the six hour drive from Mississippi to Arkansas. We are going west and north, so I hope the trees in Arkansas are even prettier than here. They might have already peaked, but I'll be looking out the window to...

  • Education Photography on Nov 22, 2009 in photography teaching and learning

    After a year of blogging and taking photographs to use on my blog, I have accumulated many, many photos of children in learning situations-- at school, at home, at church, on field trips, and at special events. I am discovering that education photog...

  • Research on Nov 18, 2009 in community teaching and learning

    On Tuesday morning, I chaperoned a field trip of fourth graders to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and the Davis Planetarium in Jackson. They were required to take notes about sea creatures and other animals in field study booklets prepare...

  • Monarch Hospitality on Nov 12, 2009 in raising Monarch butterflies

    This female monarch butterfly visited our backyard butterfly bushes this afternoon. She stayed around for at least 3 hours-- until the sun started setting. She fed on the fresh, white flower clusters with purpose and was not easily frightened away...

  • New Camera on Nov 10, 2009 in photography

    Thanks to my recent birthday, I have a new camera-- a Nikon D40. I've been eying it for a while, and now I'm loving it. These shots of my pets capture their personalities so clearly.

  • Nature Exploring and Creating on Nov 8, 2009 in nature teaching and learning creative process

    The Environmental Education in Mississippi Alliance hosted a fall conference that I attended over the weekend. My friend Sarah Campbell wrote about several workshops (including hers) from the conference on her blog here.The last workshop was led by...

  • November Colors : 4 on Nov 8, 2009 in nature seen on a walk

    I'll write more about the place and conference where these photos were taken tomorrow. . .for now. . . I love a blue sky as much as golden-green leaves in morning sunshine,brown, withered seeds are beautiful as they are in themselves,spiders do not s...