Chrissy's Photo A Day

  Jack and Iris Last day of April... spent all morning at a middle school, then attended the last department meeting of the academic ye...

This is the door to our basement. Today Dan took it off and glued/clamped it so it would hang right. I then washed, patched cracks, and ...

Today students worked on gears. This successful group created a simple gear train to lift their sea bird eggs. It's Friday. This wee...

Today students tested solar cells in series and parallel. I took some pictures while they were at lunch of some reasonable voltages and...

All week I will be working with students at a local school testing out my Sea Birds curriculum. They are at lunch during this photo. So ...

Working in my office on my Save the Bats curriculum... we got a student-made anemometer and a blow dryer to crank out some voltage. The ...

Spread mulch today in the back garden. I am very attached to my oasis, my little plot of land in the city. I love my trees, peonies, lil...

  Irises are in bloom. I wanted blue irises in my wedding bouquet 27 years ago and didn't understand why they weren't available ...

    Family Engineering Night!!! We had about 50 kids and parents, plus about 10 volunteers from my student chapter of NSTA help out at a lo...

      Cool nights and comfortable days, and the garden flowers are loving it. Today I spread about 400 pounds of mulch and need about 400 p...

Dan is putting together 10 kits of my curriculum. He has orders for five of them and will surely sell the other five soon. What a job! 120 ...

I love teaching! Tonight was my engineering class and my students brought their curriculum and materials to teach with. This was a lesson ...

My new fun thing to do is play Draw Something with people on my iPad. I make a drawing and the other person has to guess my word. They th...

I'm helping a student with her physics class and today she came over to review acceleration with me. We were trying to figure out the ...

Easter Sunday. After church Dan and I went out to brunch with my mom. It was very special. The weather was perfect and we were able to sit...

House up the street from mom is for sale. Dan and I were so curious we asked to have a tour of the mansion. Oh my. We had a great day s...

A new generation. Miss Carrie helped raise me, her daughter is my mom's partner in business, her granddaughter works for mom sometim...

I caught a pair of doves at the bird bath. Sweet. Got my hair cut and colored. Nice. Packing for a trip to Auburn. Stressful.

We are the champions! The president of the university is holding the trophy. Pretty cool game to watch. Ok, I crocheted but I looked up ...

Wanna buy a kit? Dan has sold one of my curriculum kits and has a few more orders pending. I assembled everything today for a photo. We sp...

We came home today from the two conferences. It felt so good to get in my own bed. My gardens really took off while we were gone. Here are...

I met up with my friend Deb from C'ville at the conference. She helped me present my session, we went out to lunch, and bummed around a...

  View from the 26th floor. See the moon and Venus? If you look closely you can see Jupiter hanging below Venus too. Here at the conferenc...

Me and Igor watching the UK basketball game at NARST!

Penguins marching! Today I worked all day on my presentation for NSTA and pulled a half dozen buckets of weeds... and after dinner watched...

Lilacs in bloom... but they don't smell nice yet. I just love the way dogwood flowers look against the cedar planks of this privacy fe...

I have a baby bald cypress that is just leafing out ahead of its mother. I'm going to nurse this baby until it's ready to get moved...

First day of spring, 2012 Jeffersonia diphylla, also known as Twin Leaf is my favorite native wild flower. When I lived in Charlottesville...

Baby dogwood flowers opening up... Bellwort Service Berry Redbud I love spring, but I hate being hot at night. Last night I had to sle...