I tried (REALLY I TRIED) to set up and follow a plan for posts. The plan is more for me than you; I need to be better about attaching words to images for record-keeping. But. I’m typing on my phone. And that gets kinda obnoxious. Oh well. I cried (I CRIED ACTUAL TEARS) over the…
Author: MeganFloyd
I'm a wife, mother, not-an-artist living in a barn in rural Alabama.
the view
These shots are all from the past two weeks. I’m so excited about how green everything is (the photos are ordered newest to oldest). It’s almost a surprise that it happens every year!
[school] ancient americas
This week for school we’re talking about ANCIENT American cultures. We’re zeroing in hard on the Nazcas for some art projects – about Nazca lines and pottery. We’ve watched videos and I have a National Geographic with some EXCELLENT photos. But. It gets kinda tricky. Even after studying this five or six different ways, I…
Brennan’s birthday
My raspberry girl turned SIX on Friday!
growing up
Hang with me, please, because I’m sort of thinking out loud. I’ve been blogging since before it was called blogging. First it was on angelfire – where I had to learn just enough HTML coding to get anything to even show up on the screen, and I learned about intellectual property rights. Then I tried…
eclipse helmets
So. There will be a solar eclipse on Monday, August 21st, 2017. We’re in the 90%+ totality range, so we *need* eclipse glasses *the entire time* as we attempt to view the eclipse action directly (there will be harmful rays the entire time). But. Paper glasses. Let me back up: I knew in 2016 that…
[field trip] botanical gardens
Last week we went to the Birmingham Botanical Gardens.
change of pace
All year we’ve been up in the air and unsettled. For every one thing going to plan, there are a million billion trillion (so many zeroes) things going NOT to plan. I haven’t wanted to think. I haven’t wanted to have ideas. I haven’t wanted to record or ponder or even hope. I’m weary. Being…
