Assortment

Autumn Re Deux

I've been loving this bit of fall on our dining room table, it's colors speaking the season; one of life's little gifts I found down by the lake the other day.  (No, the leaves are not turning here, someone cut this bush back and tossed its branches aside.  I have to say, they dried beautifully.)

But, while all my guys were away camping over the weekend, I had some time to myself.  So, I brought fall from the table to...

 

...the front door.

There, now.  This, I love.

 

A seasonal welcome.

 

And the table? It wasn't forgotten.

I hopped on my bike, pedaled to the lake, and brought some more fall home.

Writing There

What do you do when all the voices of your family are spastic-excited about their new toy--the one that has twin engines, and turns by differential thrust, and is way, way tougher, and way, way better than the last one they had, you know, the one that just up and flew away one day--and they begin to plead,

"Come watch us fly it, Mama!  Mama, can you please come watch us?"

There is some writing that you need to finish up, but you also can't miss the chance to watch your aviators, and you can't resist their pleading eyes and long, dark lashes pulling at you for all they're worth. 

So, you grab your journal and fall in step.

 

Everyone gives his best performance, even the little guy, who throws glances over his shoulder, just to make sure you're watching.

 

  

But then, the real fun begins when Daddy takes the controls and dive-bombs the three moving targets he sees.

 

Watch out, my targets!  Duck, dodge, cut right, cut left, and laugh until you're all out of breath.

 

I sit.

I watch.

I write.

Alaska Art

 

We had the chance, just yesterday, to tell an assembly of fellow homeschoolers about our beloved Alaska.  What better way to tell, than to show?

 

 

Exhibit #1

Alaskan Brown Bear

Painted (mostly) by the four-year-old boy.

 

Exhibit #2

Twin Otter and Eagle Over a Bering Sea Crabber in the Land of the Midnight Sun

Drawn and painted by the nine-year-old boy.

 

Exhibit #3

Aurora Borealis and Dash 8 Over the Volcano, Mt. Spur

Drawn and painted (mostly) by the six-year-old boy. 

 

Exhibit #4

(Apparently, the artist of exhibit #4 had some difficulty titling his/her work)

Eagle, Whale Tail, Walrus, Purse Seiner, Tree, Sea Otter, Rocks, Crab, Mussel, Green Mountains, the Sea, No Sky, More Rocks, Walrus Wrinkles, Sea Otter With Big White Head Holding Mussel, Fishing Boat With No Detail--Called a Purse Seiner, Brown Tree, No Sky, Walrus Whiskers, Questioning the Whale Tail, One Mountain with a Snowy Peak--the Rest of the Mountains without Snowy Peaks, Smiling Crab, No Sky, More Rocks, Fishing Boat Called a Purse Seiner That Really Should Have More Detail, the Blue Sea, Darker Mountain that Should Be in the Background--But Isn't, Not Feeling the Whale Tale, Walrus Tusks, Probably a Brown Spruce Tree, Happy-Smiling Crab, the Blue-Green Sea, No Sky, Sea Otter With Big White Head and Little Tiny Flippers Holding Mussel, Not At All One With the Whale Tail, Happy-Smiling-Clapping Crab, Probably a Dead Brown Spruce Tree, More Rocks, At Least the Eagle Likes the Dead Brown Spruce Tree, Even More Rocks, Still No Sky

 

Drawn by, I don't know who.

Painted by, I don't know that either. 

 

I like Exhibits 1,2 & 3