We took our first official field trip yesterday - to Miss June's farm. She invited us over to pick tomatoes for me to can. I had asked if she would sell me some seconds, and she did, but then she graciously asked us over and let us pick as much as we wanted. She showed the kids the garden spiders, which were the pretty writing spiders with interesting webs. Lydia identified and picked off the stink bugs from the tomato plants. June also gave the kids a dead Monarch butterfly that she had found. Lydia has been making a study of it. A couple of times a day, she makes observations on how it has changed. (Right now, the wings are more brittle, and she hypothesizes that the colors may fade.) She tells me that zoologists make lots of observations, so she needs to do this. She also explained how she can tell whether the butterfly was a male or female based on the black spots on its wings.
June let the kids pick the low-hanging pears, too, which I was very excited about. June's pears aren't pretty, but they make the best pie! The kids had a ball, and I ended up spending hours canning salsa and crushed tomatoes afterwards, so it was a very good and productive day.
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