Thinking with The Thinker

Charlotte really wanted to go see the Magna Carta exhibit at the Legion of Honor. I think they learned about the Magna Carta in class this year and her teacher suggested the exhibit. Unfortunately it ended before we went to the Legion of Honor.

We saw the Isabelle de Borchgrave exhibit instead. It was fascinating to see the elaborate costumes that she made completely from paper. Well, more accurately, it was fascinating for me, interesting for Charlotte, and fairly boring for Alexander. We spent some time viewing the rest of their collections and enjoying the beautiful views from the museum grounds.

I did learn that Alexander appreciates statues (which Charlotte found fairly boring) and we checked out each one. They both enjoyed posing with Rodin's The Thinker, and were surprised to hear that we posed with The Thinker at the Cleveland Museum of Art on our wedding day.


Charlotte would like to spend more time this summer visiting parts of San Francisco we have not yet seen. Alexander just wants to go play mini-golf.

Flowers in our garden

Just like we did during Spring Break, we are also tending our school garden during the summer. We were very excited to see our first flowers blossom last week! All of these were planted from seed. It's just unfortunate that they didn't blossom before the school year ended.

Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of these little purple flowers.

This is our first pansy. A few days later there were four of them!

Our first nasturtium.