Categories: nature Photography
singlikewildflowers
Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I'm so happy you are here. I'm an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature's beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child's heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you'll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you'll find some interesting posts to read!
sing like wildflowers 
That’s cool 😎
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It was part of the nature finds at CA. Academy of Science outdoor play area. That place always amazes me with their designs.
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I was curious – when I saw the “preview” before clicking open the post, I was thinking the first one was an amoeba, something I’ve not thought about since biology class many years ago.
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The museum opened a new outdoor exhibit and the play area is all made up of natural materials. It’s lovely and refreshing!
I’m relearning so much currently of stuff covered in middle and high school. There’s no way you can remember everything from earlier schooling.
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They made a playground at the Wildlife Refuge and supposed to be made of natural materials – it is not finished yet, but I read a story about it. I used to get a lot of catalogs at the house, then eventually had a service that got rid of them. It was a donation to an organization to save the planet and the trees and they wipe you off all mailing lists – very cool as now you can just go online (or to Amazon) if you are looking for something.
Anyway, my mom and I ordered a book from one of the catalogs. The book was called “An Incomplete Education” – it advertised “ten thousand years of culture into a single superbly readable volume” – it was fascinating and I read a good deal of it, but not all. The more I read, the more I started to wonder exactly how much my brain retained from all those years of school? It has been updated and in new editions with the same name. But what a treasure trove of knowledge in one book.
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I need this book!! I put it in my Amazon cart already. I concur; it amazes me how much I missed or didn’t make obvious connections between school and life things. It would’ve made school learning more rewarding if I knew it was useful…I learned that much later…like decades later.
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Yes, and he’s had several editions since my edition (downstairs in the vastland of disorganization). I know where it is, in my desk, with the Audubon Land Bird Guide I got as a youngster, but I have clothes racks and Rubbermaid tubs surrounding it – impossible to get to. Yes, it’s great … a little bit of everything. We had so much to learn in between writing papers, studying, taking tests … the brain can only absorb so much.
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It’s a very thick book with over 1000 pages. A Kindle version is available too; I might get that edition instead. The brain processes what it needs and stores away irrelevant info. That’s why these kinds of books are so good for reviewing.
I know what you mean about “vastland of disorganization.” Nice way of expressing it. We have slowly begin the process of cleaning out closets and cabinets.
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Yes, mine is big too (what I remember – I can’t access it right now … it is only obsolete as newer historical things have happened). It is an amazing book and when I got it, I’d already been out of college a couple of decades and I vowed to read (but not study) so many pages a day. We have grandiose ideas when we are young … I was in my early 30s then. I am going to wait for retirement, but I have uncontrolled clutter everywhere.
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I’ve been decluttering for years and trying to bring organization into our home. The toy room is hands-off for now; kids can’t bear to part with anything.
I’m excited for your retirement too. You’ll have more free time to do lots of things you’ve put on hold for now. My goodness, you’re going to hit all those books and be so much smarter!!
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Yes, I’m looking forward to it and can’t wait – simple things, but enjoyable things and reading will be a top priority. I’ve got some sketch books, charcoals and pastels (which I will be writing about in a post in a week or so) and that will be a hobby that I’ll look forward to getting into again. I took some classes in my teens.
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Would love to see your artworks! It’ll be nice to see posts of your art soon.
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I think it will be a while but I am going to use one of the paintings done by one of the group for my next post … they are a nice group but I told them I can’t fit art at home, nor art trips with a group, into my schedule due to blogging and work – oh ya … work. I said I can’t keep up with blogging, without introducing any more distractions.
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Looking forward to seeing it! I’ll check your blog for it.
Blogging takes a lot of time…read, write, ponder, upload, edit, comment, like, post, read, write, repeat. I can’t live without it. lol
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Yes it does and my house is messy because of blogging. I used to be organized, but now, I feel like “well I can do that later” but it never gets done and I’m always losing things in the house – no funny as I lost a credit card and never found it and had to get a replacement. Part of it is not just blogging, but my job and it is tedious and boring and at the end of the day and especially the end of the week, I’m just not willing to devote a lot of hours to anything but myself – there, I’ve said it, but it’s just me looking at it but I still cringe.
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I get it. I get it. I so get what you are saying and found myself nodding to getting a replacement for a credit card. Same here.
This is funny but do you know that I’m best at decluttering when I’m annoyed? I don’t like things getting in my way and my head feels busy, so I have no problem throwing things out. Not the best way to approach it though.
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