Early 18th Century Cooking

Heating up milk to make cheese with a class of seventh graders this morning.  I love that this is a fairly normal morning for me.  And that I smelled like a campfire for the rest of the day.

And Lilacs!

More raindrops on plants!  I took this photo of one of the lilac blossoms near a 1677 house at one of my museums.  I really like the fresh green and purple against the background of 17th century house exterior.  This house's gardens have 42 lilacs and - nerd alert! - the fact that it's that number exactly makes me smile everytime.

Raindrops on . . . Lilies?

I'm in love with this photo, shot quickly as I was leaving the side door of the museum to go get lunch. There are a ton of lily-of-the-valley plants in a garden bed by the door and I leaned down to get a quick snapshot. I love how the camera caught the water droplets on the leaves. I applied a "lo-fi" filter on Instagram and this hotness is the result!

Through A Glass Darkly

Rainy day at the museum today . . . 

Beech, from Two Angles

The 200+ year old copper beech at one of my museums, shot from below and through an upstairs window.  The first one has a simple filter, the second a filter with a bit more oomph.  I like them both for different reasons.

I've taken photos of this tree before, last October and in February and April of this year.  I've also taken photos of some of the trees at my other museums, some published here and some not.  Makes me think I should start a new series called "Museum Trees."  :)

Green Scene

At a plant sale for one of my museums.

New Tech

I got my first smartphone last night, so I've been taking photos on its 8 megapixel camera all day and sharing them in all kinds of ways - email, SMS, blogging, Facebook, Instagram.  I'm doing a "photo a day/project 365" series on my personal blog (which you might have noticed has actually increased my Museum Daily offerings over here).  I anticipate the new phone revolutionizing that project, and think it might translate here, as well.

So might I present, my first Instagram'd Museum Daily!  The caption read, "Oh . . . yeah.  This is totally where I work."  :)