Just before Thanksgiving, after a Saturday morning at the soccer field, we decided to spend an hour or two in Duke Gardens.
It was a beautiful day.
We found some pitcher plants and duly studied them, hoping to spot drowned insects in the digestive fluids at the bottom of the pitcher. We had studied carnivorous plants while we were homeschooling, so it was interesting to see them in Real Life.
Later we found this marker that identifies the location of the 36th parallel north of the Equator. We had also studied this in homeschool, but these sorts of things are conceptual and vague at best when you are ten or younger. So it was nice to find something Concrete, as it were, to reinforce the lesson.
And when you find such things that mark such things as precise lines of latitude, why, you must needs stand (or sit) there.
