Looking For a Rainbow

The weather has been great here for the past two weeks, and flowers are everywhere. Generally speaking, there is always something in bloom here in Silicon Valley, but this time of the year is especially beautiful. We had a lot of rain this spring – hopefully our water reservoirs are back where they should be. So one of those nice warm afternoons I handed Anna her pail and instructed her to find all colors of rainbow around our house. As you can see, we found many – she went a little wild on pink rose petals. She was singing a rainbow song that she learned in preschool as she was going about it. We had some problem finding orange except on fallen leaves that we still have in our garden as well. Another interesting fact about our area is that some tree or bush is always shedding leaves, even in the middle of the summer. We had a good conversation going about what flowers we have (I have no clue on half of them) and about different shades of the same color. I expected Anna to ask why different flowers have different colors, but she didn’t. However, I was wondering about it myself and was prepared with an answer for her that I found here.

Our rainbow made a pretty contact paper collage and then was cut into a sun catcher. Contact paper is definitely a popular craft material in our house lately.

I am linking this post to two terrific links – Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom and Friday’s Nature Table at Magic Onions.