Any home school reflects its own family. I don't just mean values with an upper case V, but the interests that develop within a particular home. This specialized knowledge adds depth and dimension to a home program. Since my background includes work with the US Forest Service, birds, trees and snakes are a comfortable part of our school
Our oldest daughter had a great field botany class in college. So each year in early spring, she takes the boys and me on a hike over at Balls Bluff, a park that overlooks the Potomac River. We hunt for ephemeral flowers, the ones like trout lily, wild ginger, and trillium that take advantage of the sun that reaches the forest floor before the trees leaf out.
I made the photo at the top of this blog last spring during our flower hike. The boys mostly ran around enjoying the fresh air, splashing in (cold!) creeks and climbing over fallen logs. But they also began to develop the ground work for knowing and appreciating the tiniest flowers and plants.
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