Thursday night is the science fair at Berit and Rowan's school. Both of the girls did great with their projects, learned a lot and had fun.

Rowan picked a project about natural dyes. She took cabbage, red onion skins, and cherries and boiled and mashed them until the dye seaped into the water in the pot, and she dyed some cotton strips to see which of them made the best dyes.

Berit made a pinhole camera out of an oatmeal can and took some pictures. That, in itself, was pretty cool. But then we went to the darkroom rental place to develop them, and we ended up getting a 2 hour lesson in how to develop black and white paper in the dark room. It was fascinating, and Berit ended up doing all of her own work there. I swear to you I could drop her off at the darkroom tomorrow with some more photographic paper to develop and she could do it all on her own. Ask her how.