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| Bees-Study of a Colony |
12.31.2010
12.29.2010
The Sketchbook Project #31
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| Page 24. (9/21/2010) I went to see the science teachers at the high school where I teach in search of imagery today. I told the Physics teacher my sketchbook theme was "science project gone wrong." He said, "You don't need books for that. Just get a camera. It happens here every day." Page 25. (10/31/2010) When I was in 10th grade, I took Biology (Honors) with Mr. Phoebus. We dissected a fetal pig. I had a lot of questions? Where did the school get the pigs? Slaughterhouses, but then from a science catalog. So, they would have died anyway? Yes. Mr. Phoebus was one of the smartest people I'd ever met (still today, I'm not sure if I've met a smarter person) and I respected him, so I dissected the pig. And I really enjoyed it. |
12.28.2010
12.20.2010
11.21.2010
11.17.2010
11.14.2010
11.11.2010
11.09.2010
11.07.2010
The Sketchbook Project #19
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| Items needed to perform science projects: WARNING: Purchasing items does not guarantee that your science project will not go wrong. Good luck. |
11.06.2010
11.02.2010
The Sketchbook Project #17
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| Microscope View #2. I'm still coming up with lots of ideas for pages related to the theme "science project gone wrong." I'm about 3/4's of the way into the book and I've started to think about what I want to put on the cover. I may do some collage pages in the weeks to come, but I have enjoyed painting and drawing so much who knows what I'll do. The Sketchbook Project has extended their sign-up deadline until November 15th, so if you still want to sign up you can! |
10.31.2010
10.27.2010
10.26.2010
10.23.2010
The Sketchbook Project #11
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| Benjamin Franklin. I'm sure he must have had at least one science project go wrong? |
10.16.2010
10.05.2010
10.02.2010
9.29.2010
9.27.2010
The Sketchbook Project #4
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In my fourth entry, I drew a microscope and focused on the contained views. On the second page, the organisms are outside of the slides and on the loose. |
9.26.2010
The Sketchbook Project #3
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| For my third sketchbook entry, I illustrated a story my husband told me about a high school chemistry project gone wrong which ended with the classroom filling with noxious smoke and the students making a quick exit from the building. In my first drawing the experiment is set and ready to go and in the second things have started to go wrong. |
9.21.2010
The Sketchbook Project #2
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| For my second drawing I chose a dissection gone wrong where the frogs escape. |
9.19.2010
The Sketchbook Project #1
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| I decided to participate in the Sketchbook Project and let them choose my theme for me at random. They picked "science project gone wrong." A few days later, I received my book in the mail and today I completed 2 pages depicting a failed terrarium project. |
8.24.2010
Cooperstown, The Other Days
Well, many months have passed since I started writing about our trip to Cooperstown. The Baseball Hall of Fame was pretty great. I learned a lot and got to see Felix Pie's shoes! Howe Caverns was very pretty. We were excited to go there because of the underground boat ride that they are known for. Unfortunately, there had been a whole lot of rain in the weeks prior to our visit and that part of the cavern was flooded. Howe Caverns was discovered by a farmer who realized his cows preferred standing in the bright sun in the middle of the fields. His neighbor's cows all liked to stand under trees during the day. He investigated and found a cool breeze coming up out of the land and below that were the caves. Lake Otsego was practically overflowing because of all of the rain that week. The Joseph L. Popp Butterfly Conservatory was very small, but beautiful. We had a chance to get very close to some butterflies, birds, and a turtle eating a banana! Breakfast at Stagecoach Coffee was delicious and we had a fantastic fancy dinner at the Hoffman Lane Bistro next to where we stayed. Overall, a great trip! In the future, if we go back, I would like to go in late spring or early summer because a lot of the other attractions opened the day we left (April 1st). It is a quaint, small town with very friendly people. The Cooperstown General Store was also outstanding and old fashioned. I bought some Lilies of the Valley bulbs there that have grown nicely in my garden.
4.01.2010
Cooperstown, NY-Day1
Jason and I took a vacation to Cooperstown, New York. It was about a 5 1/2 hour drive from Baltimore. We arrived in the early evening and after walking around town, we ate dinner at the Cooperstown Diner (a small diner with great service and good sized portions). Jason had fried haddock and french fries and I had a grilled cheese with sweet potato wedges. We stayed at Visions Inn (the annex building to the Lake Front Motel--which was under renovation during our visit). While it was very close to the Baseball Hall of Fame and convenient to Main Street, it didn't quite meet the expectations raised by the following quote off of the website, "Our annex building, Visions Inn, located 1/2 block from Main Street on Hoffman Lane, once an 1800's Brewery, has been totally renovated into a luxurious modern-day Country Inn." 
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