Treasure Hunt, Creative Family Idea Box Day #13

Kids are natural treasure hunters!  Get outside, take a walk, find some woods or look in your own backyard for natural treasures.  Anything can be a treasure!  Be inspired by your children’s natural curiosity and wonder.  Find something to photograph or bring home.  Draw your treasures or write about them in a journal, or tell…

The Daily Turn #13: Daddy’s Garden

Walking again today through my Daddy’s garden I become a child. The scent of honey-sweet allysum is carried by the first wind of the end of summer. I can not find a poetic way to say that the towering hastas smell like honeysuckle and gardenias combined, but I don’t mind, because I do not yet read…

The Daily Turn #8: things noted on a morning walk

A black swallowtail on a lemon-yellow vine wings open, close, open shimmering blue velvet jewels The memory of a nameless flower that bloomed by the edge of the road last summer. looking for it, but finding no trace. An explanation of what stagnant means. A gutted house in the middle of a field abandoned for…