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This evening I presented my daughter with the printouts of the wildlife pictures she will be using for her science report on the meadow. She loves to cut paper, so the first thing she did was to start trimming them to remove the white boundaries. The subtleties of layout on the display board can wait until later.

After cooking, supping, and cleaning I joined both girls as they experimented with lofting multiple balloons in the stream of air from a room fan.

After teeth were brushed I found myself with the globe and a flashlight demonstrating the earth orbiting the sun and illuminating first one pole all day long, and then the other pole. I introduced the concepts of terminator and obliquity if not the words.

From the collection I handed to my daughter, two of the recent distant shots which strained the limits of my pocket camera:

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The meadow project is so cool. Your daughter will remember doing this forever.

I remember a night when I was a little girl. My little brother and I stood on the front stoop in our pajamas watching while our father put the beach ball in the middle of the lawn. He then walked around it shining a flashlight on it to show us the phases of the moon.