Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Pictographs and a Turtle

Monday we went to see the Paint Rock Pictographs. It was a fun field trip. We went about 10 years ago, so it was a good time to let the younger crew take a tour. We got there and the Mrs. Campbell (82 yrs. young) started our tour with some discussion on how they found the pictographs.

Then we set out to look at the pictographs. There were lots of them. It was interesting to hear what they meant and and how the Indians painted them around the winter, and summer solstice. Some were about killing Buffalo, some were recording the times of the year that they had a celebration, like a reunion. Fun and interesting.

Tuesday, Michael found a box turtle. Joy looked info up on the internet and found out what they eat, so we told the kids they could keep him for a while.