Sunday photos - 7/24/2011

Another sunrise

Wow, I have so many pictures to share, I am not sure where to start!  I think I have to break these up into a few posts.  I got so much good stuff today alone, I think I have to do today separately!  That is pretty cool.  And speaking of cool, I am a little chilled here tonight and boy is that a great feeling.  For any of you who are suffering in heat and humidity, I am so sorry!  

HEY!  Did you know that if you click on any of these pictures, it will enlarge them to full size??  Imagine that!  I learned something new today totally by accident!  

Alliums

Monarda

Lily

globe thistle

Day lily, Chicago Candy

foggy haystacks

Moody trees

Successful harvest

Daylily

Cool clouds from last week taken with the point and shoot camera

Park Falls watertower

Gorgeousness in the sky

And the next morning!

Sandhill cranes

Wave watching

Lift bridge

Not picnic friendly weather

Chairs overlooking the lake

CREATIVITY GLASSES!!!!

Hope you enjoy this birthday week installment of Sunday photos.  More to come tomorrow!

Until then, be a joy giver!

Art glasses and painting day 1

We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness.  ~Author Unknown

This makes me smile no matter what kind of mood I may be in! Here are the art "creativity" glasses that the young group made this morning.  They have great imaginations!  Don't you love how a couple of them have two colors of cello instead of just one!  

A few of my kiddos, the one on the left is a shirt-tale relative "Oswald"!  My new best buddy!

The whole bunch of creative kids

 These next 2 pix are the beginnings of our self portraits.  You can see the mirrors clipped to the easels.  They start with the "bottom layer" the skin color (after they have drawn a face, neck and shoulders, with the eye shapes).  The top layers come tomorrow, and hopefully they can also get the background worked on, too.
 They are a little alien looking now, but wait for the next installment!

A couple from the "older group".

A couple self portraits from the younger group

Oh, and about 2 hours before school, I saw this~

This time- orange sunrise

I am in awe every morning, it seems.

Until next time, celebrate your joys!

Summer school begins

I am not really sure why in the world I said I would teach summer school!  After all, it is summer!  One should be resting, relaxing, enjoying the weather..... but when push comes to shove, I will help out where needed. It only runs from 8 am- noon, so it isn't super long.  It was a fun day, a nice start to the event.

I am teaching 2 groups of kids, the first is the group that is going into 1st - 3rd grades, and then the next from 4th - 6th.  It is supposed to be an enrichment event, so the atmosphere is relaxed and happy.  We started off the whole session with making creativity glasses!  These glasses will help the students look at things in a new way, with creativity and joy!  What it is doing is giving them permission to do things with their art that they might not ordinarily do, perhaps choose new colors or patterns, use different types of subject matter, do things that are not normal for them.  Tomorrow when we start painting at an easel, they will use their creativity glasses to try and see themselves in a new way.  Yep, we are going to paint self portraits.  They don't know this yet so SHHHHHH!

Here are a few pix of the kids' glasses and a few pix of kids in action.  The faces have been changed to protect the innocent!

1st-3rd completed glasses

1st - 3rd grade glasses

Glitter station

One thing better than glitter?  MORE glitter

Working hard to finish!

 Tomorrow we will glue in colored cellophane, so we can look at the world through rose colored ( or gold colored) glasses!  And hopefully see ourselves in a whole new way.

I sort of like looking through joy colored glasses!