Tweet Earlier this summer, we spent the day at Fermilab National Laboratory with some friends enjoying their annual “Family Outdoor Fair.” It was good fun. We scooped for pond life, netted for prairie insects, took and examined soil samples, observed an amazing menagerie of raptors, tested a falconer’s tracking device, saw a collection of fossils, [...]
family fun and fermi
July 2nd, 2011
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Tags: animals · family fun · natural history · photos · science · socializing
the petrifed forest, where the wood is stonier
July 6th, 2009
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Tweet Well, we’ve been busy (and a little lazy, which is what vacations are all about, right?). Since we arrived in Sedona, AZ last Thursday night, we’ve spent much of our time just hanging out around the house. It’s a nice place–much nicer than the house in Santa Fe–but not quite as remote or private. [...]
Tags: family fun · hiking · natural history · nature · photos · road-schooling
santa fe adventures
June 28th, 2009
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Tweet We’ve been quite busy the past couple days hanging out in the greater Santa Fe area. Today is the first day we’ve really just hung around the house, venturing out only for dinner and a walk through the downtown area. The past three days, though, have been filled with adventure. On Wednesday we visited [...]
Tags: natural history · nature · photos · road-schooling · travel