Good Garden!

Ideas for the school garden.
A garden "bed"...kinda cutesy but very simple. It would be fun to make pillows out of one type of plant and a striped blanket out of others.

I also love this tunnel for the kindergardeners.

And the pumpkin teepee is great!




























Two of the greatest natives that bloom in fall!
pineapple sage (the variety with the green NOT YELLOW leaves is much hardier!) and enigma blue salvia!

Calvin and Hobbes

Emmett and Mac love Calvin and Hobbes completely and I have many memories of them lounging all over the house and the car and the cabin reading and giggling. So I love Calvin and Hobbes too.
Just the other morning Emmett asked when the last comic was written so we looked it up on the computer. 1995. And here it is. (clearer if you click to enlarge!)





I don't know what it is about this that made me cry because I just don't understand what happened to my mush-o-meter since giving birth. But for some reason this one really got me and I blubbered and misted and it was very messy and Emmett looked truly perplexed.
But the funny part was later (in the car, for christ sakes) when Emmett says to Mac, "Watch this." Then to me "...Mama, remember the last Calvin and Hobbes?"
And, on cue, I cried.

I give Silas the camera sometimes...

...and I am never disappointed. He likes to contribute to music day by taking pictures...blurry movement pictures or 20 in a row of Mabels fur. Here are just a few of his latest!



















I love his faces and his feet all over my camera. Such a great way to see into his mind!