Wood Shop

It is all fun and games at the DuPage Children's Museum, but it certainly look like work in the wood shop. With wood blocks in a bin, each child gets a workbench with a vise and access to a saw, screwdrivers, hammers, sandpaper, nails & screws. And labels to attach the to items they make which can be taken home.
And goggles. Each child gets goggles. For safety, of course, but I found the goggles to look great in my photos as well!
By the way, today marks the first day of my second year in blogging. On this date a year ago I gave it a start, hoping for one post per week. I wound up with nearly one post per day and have no plans to stop. Enjoy!

Art That Fits

Inside and out, the DuPage Children's Museum is attractive to the eye. Here we see an excellent wall decoration filled with details about how things work and how they work by interaction. And here we also see the statuary across the front of the outside of the building, which is interesting and attractive in its own right. Even better for me, my grandson Joey loves Choo Choos and asked Santa for Choo Choos this past Christmas. Needless to say, Santa came through.

Great Museum

When I was young, I always liked going places, and living in Chicago gave my family several museums to visit. I liked them all, but I recall some of them being very static, where quiet people walked down quiet aisles reading and looking at dusty display cases. One was different: the Musuem of Science and Industry had buttons to push, telephones to listen to, things to do. Fun things to do that promoted learning.
That institution is as good as ever, but this weekend we took two of our grandchildren to the DuPage Children's Museum in Naperville. Suffice it to say that an hour after our arrival, I went back to the desk to exchange my one-day admission for a full year's membership which includes all four grandchildren. A bargain, loaded with fun and lots of learning. Some images from the museum in the next few days.

European Flyovers

Our last aviation photos in this series are two from a flyover we saw in Europe last July. Perhaps it was Paris; it might have been Berlin or Helsinki. I could look through the location albums, but it is more enjoyable to watch the planes fly and remember all of the wonderful cities we visited in 2009.
A new topic is scheduled for tomorrow.

More Private Planes

Occasionally a private plane will appear to be radically different in design when seen parked at a smaller airport. The one parked here looks almost like a cross between a plane and a helicopter. The likely thing, though, is that it will look a lot like others when it is in flight.

Private Planes

DuPage County Airport and Schaumburg Airport are both closer to my home than O'Hare is, and some interesting shots are avaiable there. As was the case with the pontoon planes in Alaska, the size of the planes and of the airports allows the photographer to get in close for these photos.

Into the Sky

Boring winter clouds forming a completely gray sky this morning make it enjoyable for me to look at some blue sky -- backdropping another pair of airplane photos.