Friday, March 11, 2016

Vines Gardens

The girls didn't have school today, so we went to Vines Gardens to walk around, play, and take pictures:









While we were there, a local art club -- or something like that; I didn't actually ask any of them for an explanation -- was there painting landscapes. There were four painters that we saw; there might have been others in places we didn't see. I only got three of them in pictures, though:




And of course, there were geese:


After we got home and had lunch, the girls went outside with their easels and brushes and paints to paint our backyard!

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Zoo Trip with Elyse's Girl Scout Troop

Today Elyse and I went to Zoo Atlanta with her Girl Scout troop:

(This is only half of the troop, and one of them you can barely see. All nine girls did make it.)








The next two pictures were taken while we were waiting for the train:



And finally a couple of pictures of Elyse on the playground: