Pictures from Boulder, Colorado

Wonderland Lake Park

Boulder Waldorf Kindergarten

Sugarloaf Mountain Trail

Shuttles, Spindles & Skeins

Boy Scout Trail/May's Point Trail

Dinosaur Ridge National Natural Landmark

Apatosarus model... not actual size

Apatosaurus vertebra... actual size!

over 300 footprints beautifully preserved in the rock

this area was flat before the Rocky Mtns pushed it up

can you see the dinosaur footprints pushing down into 

what was a layer of mud and is now a ledge of rock

amazing!

Mountain Flower Urban Goat Dairy

we had a lovely classroom in which to work

forming the rod puppet head

using pins to determine the eye placement

Suzanne has cleverly re-purposed a picnic basket

as a traveling puppet show basket

a field trip to Jo-Ann Fabrics for

the perfect fabric for our rod puppets

the head of my rod puppet

archetype:  protector

he is the young king

making the hand with a short stick on it

the other hand has a sturdy elastic loop sewn to it

hand position inside the rod puppet

dominant hand gets the elastic thumb loop

non-dominant hand holds the short stick

my finished rod puppet

my friend Malia's rod puppet

archetype:  baker

the wonderful playground at the kindergarten

recirculating water pump with sluice

the chickens

the goats

some example table puppets for
"The Kind Mousie" poem by Natalie Joan
The Waldorf Book of Animal Poetry, page 221

archetype:  shoemaker

the sweetest little pair of needle-felted shoes

I love the use of cypress knees in puppet scenes!

forming the armature for the table puppet

step 1

step 2

step 3 (for male figures)

step 3 (for female figures)

form the pipe cleaner into a circle for skirt

and attach at bottom of legs

filling in the head

filling in the torso (for male puppets)

filling in the torso (for female puppets)

working on my own cobbler & kind mousie

Miss Mousie with her white cap

some of the beautiful table puppets other people

in my class made

Suzanne shows how to use strings of Christmas

lights and a light box to make fairy lights 

appear under the rainbow silk

Walter Orr Roberts Weather Trail

at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Bald Mountain Scenic Area

this was one of my favorite hikes!

Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art

playing with Zometool pieces

they can be used to build geometric solids,

molecules in chemistry, etc

if you're into this kind of thing,
check out the kit for C60 - The Fullerene

Museum of Boulder

how much fun can you have sitting patiently

in the airport?

our flight is delayed and delayed again

due to mechanical issues

finally, they bring us a different plane

but it's okay

because we are together!