Monday, April 25, 2011
Field Trip
Our family visited the Adena Mansion and Gardens, home of Thomas Worthington, sixth Governor of Ohio and one of Ohio's first U.S. Senators on Friday. We want to go back already! Everyone learned something. What did I learn? That 'Adena' is not an Indian word. It is Hebrew for 'pleasure'.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Motes quote
And here the poor mamma uttered a short prayer that she might be enabled to instil good principles into her children's minds, that so Kate, and Undine too, might know dust for dust whenever they saw it, let the outward world shine upon it never so brightly.
"Ay, ay," thought the mother, as she looked once more: "Motes in the sunbeam as we are—miserable dust and ashes in ourselves—the light streams down upon us and transfigures us: we follow the light upwards, and become the children of light ourselves."
from 'Motes in the Sunbeam', Parables of Nature by Margaret S. Gatty
"Ay, ay," thought the mother, as she looked once more: "Motes in the sunbeam as we are—miserable dust and ashes in ourselves—the light streams down upon us and transfigures us: we follow the light upwards, and become the children of light ourselves."
from 'Motes in the Sunbeam', Parables of Nature by Margaret S. Gatty
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Tweet and See - March 2011
- American Robin
- Killdeer
- Northern Mockingbird
- Turkey Vulture
- Tufted Titmouse
- Dark-eyed Junco
- Northern Cardinal
- Northern Flicker
- Canada Goose
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Common Grackle
- Northern Harrier
- Mallard Duck
- House Sparrow
- American Goldfinch
- Rock Dove
- Chipping Sparrow
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Great Blue Heron
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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