morning garden early fall days...
outdoor
dye day, encore
last month we gathered and mixed up color and dunked fabric again- what fun:
playsilk dyeing workshop !
in late may, rene shoemaker led a dyeing workshop at arrow.
we dyed playsilks for our little ones, but in the process we learned about immersion dyeing and some of us played around with some tie dyeing too. we had lots of fun, and will do this again sometime !
the undyed silks drying on the line:
the dyed silks hanging in the garden:
more images from the day:
field trip: to the zoo!
easter, morning garden-style:
natural egg dyeing, and strawberry-filled easter eggs!
egg hunt time!
morning creative play,
more morning garden:
making bread and applesauce,
indoor play, outdoor time, and
cleaning up!
the garden around the corner
while we have been
, we have really been getting inspired by the garden around the corner. we took a walk over there a few weeks ago and visited with karen who is the go-getter behind it.
this garden was carved out of a kudzu-covered vacant lot behind some houses and a church by the bare hands of many volunteers from the neighborhood and beyond. it is in its second year of growing. the garden was recently
.
they have a 'museum' of all the artifacts they have unearthed:
