Well, last Spring I found the Handbook of Nature Study Blog, and filled my copy of the Comstock book with hopeful sticky notes. This year I would actually use the book. So far I have too: twice. We examined milkweed this Spring when it was in flower, and this week in the Fall when it is setting seed.
M’s drawing of the inside seed clumps of the seed pod
B showing the open seed pod
K happy to have escaped the stroller, free!
M so enjoyed opening seed cases and putting the seeds into the stroller so much, that two days later, while standing in line at the library circulation desk, he fluffed up the seeds inside. They instantly began to swirl through the atrium, chased by me and several other grownups, while the circulations librarians serenely checked out books.