Martin Luther King National Historic Site

More from April in Atlanta. This is one of my favorite National Parks sites.

A peace & justice walk of fame.

Here's Riley in Desmund Tutu's footprints:

Maya in Maya Angelou's:

Riley in Rosa Parks':

Me with Gandhi

Working on Jr. Ranger badges:

Zoo Atlanta

Catching up from April. These are from our trip to Zoo Atlanta.

And here's Maya attempting to look the part:

Beautiful Georgia Pine trees:

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Doing some blog catch-up. These pictures are from back in March when we went to Pittsburgh. Our hotel was near the university campus, making for a nice walk downtown to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Unschooling this morning

This morning Maya and a friend went to our neighborhood creek.

They came home briefly and came inside to tell me all about the two salamanders they brought to the little pond in our yard.

After they left again to go back to the creek, I dug out some field guides, the ones with salamanders and frogs and turtles and lizards and snakes, and left them on the front steps.

They came home later with lots of stories to tell about everything they saw and did at the creek. The stories kept growing bigger and wilder, and I couldn't quite tell -- and didn't need to know --where the line was between the objectively real and the imaginary.

On the road: stopping to play in the sunshine

Port Discovery Children's Museum

I wasn't sure we would find enough to do here. This is a children's museum and was geared toward younger kids and pretty crowded with school groups while we were there. We did manage to find plenty of interesting things to do, though, and everyone really loved & kept coming back to this 3-story climber.