A Morning of Happy Smiles and Wonderful Things

While the two John Degonias in our house chose to stay home; Spencer, Denver, and I rose early and made our way to Homeschool Day at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

The Four Seasons: Four statues over 20 feet tall.

We saw poisonous dart frogs, pitcher plants, venus flytraps, rainforests, and enormous cacti.  We wandered and looked and laughed.  It was an easy, smiling day.

A Unicorn Statue
in grasses, vines, and flowers.
Almost ten feet tall.

The highlights of our visit were the enormous living sculptures.  Some we remembered from our last visit over a year ago; others were new.  They were amazing!

It was a little hard not to have John Robert with us.  He hadn't wanted to get up early.  He wanted to stay home and do his homework and homeschool.  I missed him.

Still, it was wonderful to simply focus on Spencer and Denver.  It was good to share the morning and early afternoon with two such fun, interesting guys.  We all agreed as we meandered toward the car-- "Fun.  Amazing statues.  Glad we came."

Berries in the Children's Garden.

Tarzan?

My Growing Boys

Spencer admires the Giant Ogre

The boys in Mr. McGregor's Garden

Two Monkeys.  Two Gorillas.

Relaxing after lunch.

Spencer caught stealing a bite
of Denver's pudding :-)

I See a Snapping Turtle!

Look at all those roots!

Watch out for the cacti!

Cooling off in the children's fountain.

The boys in front of Mother Earth sculpture and fountain.