Greetings all! This week Betty stayed home (so so cold and snowy) and a special guest headed out with me to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Although the museum has programs for all ages the last Tuesday of each month, from 6-9:30pm, the museum invites all those over 21 to have a tasty beverage while touring the museum. Beer and wine range from 6-8 bucks and the event is a 10 dollar ticket to non-members.
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 North Cannon Drive
Arriving an hour early (grandma style) we gear up for exploration with a hot game of Jinga in the community space.
Special guest, mom! Final score a 1 to 1 win win!
Betty’s response: You two really know how to party.
We really do!
Yea well, anyway…although the museum offers varied environmental programs and exhibitions I’m going to focus on my favorite aspects of the evening. First, the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven. In this warm and peaceful place you have the opportunity to share the same space with a variety of butterflies, birds, and a friend or two…
So so sweet, little quail.
Lovie dovie birds.
Friends…
More friends…
And future friends, from caterpillar to an adult, the nature museum displays this exciting metamorphosis and then releases the adult butterflies into the sanctuary!
And a wrap-up with mountain tunes from the Spit Creek Paddlers.
So to one and all a great big invite to get out there and SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW and along the way look for artistic expression EVERYWHERE…
Tiem Tap Hoa Viet Oriental Grocery, 1051 W. Argyle Street
–The residual purpose of art is purposeless play. This play however, is an affirmation of life–Not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord. -John Cage
My Bike Betty 