This is one of my favorite activities from the “Kitchen Science” series I do at the Museum. It’s super easy and has instant gratification.
Pour some milk to cover the bottom of a shallow plate (I use pie plates)
Place 3 or 4 drops of food coloring in the milk. Don’t mix.
Dip a toothpick into some dish soap.
Gently touch the toothpick to the surface of the milk and/or your drops of color.
Like, wow, man. The colors..!
close every door to me
spotted while wandering around the hallways of Mass. General Hospital.
roach coach
caught in the act of getting breakfast
commuting
at the end of the day…
kids!
Here’s one of the big differences between kids and adults. If you give adults a challenge like, oh, “here, use this stuff to build a roller coaster track,” most adults will respond with something like “oh, I’m terrible at stuff like this.” Kids will be all over it. And that’s why working with kids is often more rewarding and more fun than working with adults.
talkin’ ’bout the car wash, yeah
Around this time of year, every car in New England has a fine layer of salt on it, and every car is a sort of whitish grayish color. Not pretty. But it’s kind of this badge of honor, an indication of the hardiness of New Englanders. Whenever I get my car washed, I feel like I’m displaying a weakness, as though I must offer up an excuse: “It’s really bad for the paint! That’s the only reason I’m washing it! I swear!”
Anyway, I can definitively say that I have never taken a photo from inside my car while inside a car wash.
don’t let the cat…
We had to pick up a couple of things at the Container Store today, and of course, Parker couldn’t resist.
I also took a picture of a mouse that got caught in a trap last night, but Doug said it was too disgusting to post.
into the woods
Doug and I bought snow shoes today, and immediately went out and tested them at Waseeka Audubon Sanctuary in Hopkinton MA. It was a gorgeous day, not too cold, but still snowy enough to make the snow shoes fun. We saw 3 deer but didn’t get decent pictures of them. We also couldn’t walk the whole loop trail because some beavers have flooded the pond, cutting off part of the trail.
Here’s Doug taking one of his potential Project 365 shots for the day. 
tracks
some kind of critters ran across our yard last night. I suspect the smaller tracks belong to a squirrel. The larger tracks could be a fox, skunk or neighborhood dog, among other things.
in the beginning
Happy New Year. This is the beginning of what I hope will be a
successful year of Project 365. Project 365 is a photography challenge
where you take one picture every day for a year. Sounds easy, but I
hear that after a while it gets difficult or tedious or boring. But I’m
going to give it my best. My plan is to take pictures that are notable
of a given event when there is one but to otherwise just take shots
that look interesting to me. I will probably borrow from Flickr’s page
of Project 365 weekly challenges as well http://tinyurl.com/949yl4. I hope people will check back often, which will help me stay motivated for this project.
For picture one, I just wanted to acknowledge the day, which is of course the first day of the new year: