Dream Catchers at the library

L.E.N.S. Photo Challenge--You Are My Sunshine

Flower Macro Monday

brown knapweed
queen anne's lace

A trip up Mount Hope

There were no blueberries at the blueberry patch this morning and we were all very disappointed. We had gotten up at 6:30 to get 7 of us ready to get to the berry patch my 8am.

We were greeted by a big sign saying "CLOSED...REOPENING ON TUESDAY".

We were NOT happy! So instead we headed up Mount Hope to see what we could see.

Reflections

rock skipping boys
brown knapweed

Last years thistle

We did manage to eat a lot of wild blackcaps on our walk...and a few delicious wild red raspberries.

white spotted damselfly

male widow skimmer dragonfly

Mark-11

Luke-6

Craft Time Concentration

We had more fun at the library

tonight.....watching the great magical performance of Leon Etienne of CNY Magic Shows.
He was wonderfully entertaining to both the kids and the adults.

He had a lot of big and little helpers throughout his show.

Luke was very excited to get chosen to help with a trick.

I still don't know how he did his amazing magic tricks.

Kimberly is getting ready to learn how to perform one of the tricks.

After discovering how the trick was performed, we all had to take a pledge not to share the "secret" with anyone.

As his grand finale, Leon Entienne escaped from a straight jacket.

It was a great show...I recommend Leon to anyone for a show or birthday party. Both adults and kids have a great time and you come away happily from an evening of fun, amazement and laughter!!

Of course, we wouldn't have seen this great show if it wasn't for our little Canastota Public Library, which brings all these wonderful events to our children for free!

Small town libraries are the BEST!!!

Yesterday, our little library had the pet lady visit. Last week it was a puppet show, next week a magician. Every week offers storytime and an afternoon of crafts....plus, of course, we couldn't homeschool if it wasn't for the books our interloan library system offers.
On this afternoon, we got to pet many pets from all over the world.
Here is Kimmy checking out the tortoise.

A very cute marsupial.

You don't get to pet a soft chinchilla.

There is nothing as cute as a little hedgehog.

Then came out the boa constrictor.

I couldn't believe these kids were so brave...and then they were tricky and lined back up and held the snake AGAIN!!

Big kids and little....we all love the library!!

Something is missing!!

Surgery anyone??

Grandma, the kids are ready to take care of you!
Maybe we will let Luke try first.

Heading out to the fireworks. You never know when someone may need emergency surgery!

Still waiting for the fireworks.

I wonder what the other firework watchers thought of Kimberly??

A Sunset Walk at the lake