October 2nd, 2008

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Beautiful October Day

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Today the garden was so very pretty.  I love the way it looks in the October sunshine!

I love the scarlet sage and the bright mums.  They really make the garden sing each fall.

The basil in the foreground has gone to seed, and lots of them!  Behind it is the Cassia obtusifolia which something has eaten all the foliage off of.  Just the long, curved seed pods remain.

More mums.  I wish you could be here in person to walk this little path and just take in the beauty of such a mass of pretty color.

Between the Jessamine and the Akebia, this arbor looks like it’s going to be lifted right out of the ground.  :)

I do love walking from one end of the path to the other and going under my arbors. 

I love the looks of the dried rue seed pods against the wild asters and the obedient plants.

I love the way the light reflects off of the water in this birdbath.  As the leaves thin, more dappled light will make it’s way into the shade garden.

If you want to see what I have deemed bed #1, full of obedient plants, wild asters, roses and rue, here is a large picture.  Again, it’s a large picture.

School?  We did no seat work today but enjoyed a wonderful fieldtrip to the North Carolina Botanical Gardens. 

We learned about the three distinct sections of North Carolina as far as soil and plants:  the mountains, the piedmont, and the coastal plains.  It was a great fieldtrip!  Perhaps the best part to me was the picnic after the fieldtrip and visiting with like-minded moms; talking and sharing thoughts and laughing.

It was a quite a lovely day.

Lynn

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An Occasional Storm

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I had already decided that the book we would row after Very Last First Time would be Storm in the Night. What I had not planned on was that we would have a thunder storm here the very night I had pulled it off the shelf.  Though I had planned to read it for the first time the next morning, I could not resist going up to Michaela’s room, snuggling up on her bed and reading Storm in the Night while we listened to driving rain on the tin roof and watched the windows light up with lightning. 

I guess all I’m trying to say is that I’m thankful for a storm on the first night we read the book, and if you ever have a thunderstorm at night, it might be a good night to throw the lesson plans into the wind and “row” Storm in the Night.  It surely made the story come alive to have a real thunderstorm going on outside.

Lynn

PS – Oh yes.  It was another one of those occasions I mentioned.  They sure do show up when you are counting everything as something to learn from.

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