The Light
which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
There is more day to dawn.
The Sun
is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
one of our favorite things to do when
Mr. Sun
is
shining bright
is to make
Sun Prints
~what do you like to create using the light of Mr. Sun~
4 comments:
I feel like Tevia in Fiddler on the Roof....Tradition, sung in a very loud voice.
Sun prints are a tradition with us...we also do burn craft with a magnifying glass. (GK is good at it after many years, Ry not so much but the fire extinquishing baking soda helps to make us safe) and we have a sun plot in our fairy garden. That is...we take weekly readings of where the shadow of the house falls on the pathway in the garden and mark it from Beltane to Samhain to watch the path of the sun on our path. Our fairy garden is on the north of the house so the tracking is very apparent and fun to chart. And at Summer Solstice, we change our wind chimes from Sun to Moon.....have the Holly King and Oak King dance. I love solstices...both are such bountiful teaching times for kids.
cool idea! perhaps we have an art project this afternoon, if the wind lets up a bit...
OooOoOo I was just trying to decide if I wanted to do some of these this weekend or not. Yours are sooooo pretty! I also love how Linda changes out her windchimes at the Summer Solstice. I never thought of doing that. Hmmmm...hehehe.
I love to create rainbows across the walls by haing prisms strung across my window. When I was a child and watched the movie Pollyanna I swore I'd do that one day when I grew up...hehe so now I will occassionally see a prism with my name written all over it. Other than that, I'm much more a moon child than a sun child. Unless you count the various plants in our beds or the water and items I sometimes charge with it's light, that's about it.
I have also just read of your loss and send all of you our deepest blessings. I hope that in a few days when the sun is at it's highest and brightest, flashes of some of ya'lls happiest memories with him explode with a bounty of warmth and radiate with laughter through your hearts.
great big ol' hugs!!
I haven't done these since I was a child. I had completely forgotten about them. Thanks for the lovely memories!
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