Holly X3

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Flowers, Spring...

Third day in a row, something bloomed. I missed it myself, being out of town, but Holly posted this on my MySpace. She took it with her phone:

I just forget to post...

Sometimes I'm too busy to post, and sometimes I just plainly forget. Holly and Marty have both been taking photos of doings in which I've been involved. I like that. Here I am, speaking in Arizona, taken by Holly from way in back of the room without a flash. Not bad considering that. She's trying to be unobtrusive and all. Pretty successful.



Marty and Holly (and sometimes Brett and Sadie) have taken most of the photos of a series of SCA presentations I've organized on Thursday nights lately. It's very cool that they can be documented after the fact, for people who missed them, and maybe even more valuably for people who were there. I just love the internet; I love digital cameras; I'm glad my kids are willing and able to help.

Some of those photos can be seen here:
Ballads, Estrella War History, tales of courtesy...

I think I took these myself. All my kids show, and several others some of this blog's readers will know:
Period music session, and more from that evening (some taken by the kids) are here.

I've been doing lots of SCA the past several months, and really enjoying it. I've met some great new people and seen lots of learning, close up, which I love. I've had opportunities to hang out with people I had missed, when I wandered off in disgust a few years back, and some of those I was so irritated with have grown up and past some of the problems of before (and some of them missed me, too). Marty and Holly have both been more active too, even to the point of being interested in SCA philosophy discussions. It's been a thrill and a comfort all at the same time.

UFO-shaped cloud

There was another one the next day, same place, bigger but not as distinct.

The third day, in the same (a little south) there was a little rain storm. We saw the edges, very marked from dry to very wet. I'm guessing one of those UFO's had the water sink down to the bottom and just dump.

Holly took this with her phone.

Look what Holly knows how to do!

A brief moment

Marty (18) had been out for a walk with the dog, just to walk. He came back in after a while, and immediately called "Holly! Get the camera. Let's go up on the roof. Really pretty sunset. Hurry; it won't last."

Holly (15) knew where the camera was and the rushed out to the deck, where the roof is low. I hear them up there now.

I thought it was sweet.

Parenting Resource of the Month

My Unschooling site is the Parenting Resource of the month, at The Natural Child Project's site for February.

Their review of my page is here, and comments on all this will be collected here.