Whirlybirds everywhere - our yard is deep in them after last week's showers of twirling helicopter seeds. Three sizes, produced by the different species in our neighborhood. Reese and I are particularly taken with the huge papery ones, green and white and pink.
Griff is excited about outdoor sports - basketball in particular. "Basket-ball, yeah!" he typed, then scanned it and embellished on the computer. Somebody has thrown a basketball, and another person mistakes it for a soccer ball and kicks it while the first person yells, "hay!"
Does spring jump-start the imagination? He noticed pixelation for the first time today and we talked about how each picture is made up of thousands of tiny squares. Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, zoom out. He discovered the opacity function and a daytime illustration turned into a nighttime one as layers of color were added.