Art in the Park

Friend Joni in one of the fishing huts...where's the A/C?

Here's a great link with ideas for getting the kids outside for an hour a day...http://www.greenhour.org/content/activity/detail/4643

Still sizzlin' here in Virginny...this session of 'Art in the Park' in the continuing 100+ degree temps made for slow hiking.

Fortunately I had remembered to bring along a spray water bottle so that everyone could get misted and refreshed as we moved along the winding wooded path. First Landing State Park

has a Native American fishing camp recreated along the Cape Henry Trail so we had the excitement of discovering dome shaped thatched 'houses' of varying sizes every few hundred yards. There's a good shot of one here:

http://flickr.com/photos/vadcr/2215158279/in/set-72157603299922332/

As we came around a curve in the path, with the first structure just ahead, the girls squealed and bolted for its entry. Dashing in and quickly popping their heads back out through the empty doorway they called in dismay "Miss Iona, It doesn't have any air conditioning!"

Summer afternoon... Summer afternoon

'Art in the Park' which I present at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia

http://www.cacv.org/ was a delight...9 six year old girls and paint...what could be better than that. We sketched in First Landing State Park despite the 100 degree temps (though we didn't stay out as long as we would have liked) opting for the cool museum on the Chesapeake Bay side of the parkland. We made paintings while indoors and outdoors in the CACV courtyard... any leftover paint being applied to a mural for the Prisms Exhibition that takes place at the end of the summer. Here's a detail.