☀en plein air

   7.31.12

Might as well get a few pictures up from running in the sprinklers, this is remembering back to good times this Summer. I love how the girls looks so much like they are appreciating the music and dancing, as they watch on in the picture above. They learned to paint en plein air. It was a bit windy that day but otherwise a fabulous idea. They had fun painting the things that they saw around them. En plein air - is a French expression which means "in the open air", and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors, which is also called peinture sur le motif ("painting on the ground"). The pile of all the blankets and pillows from the house for them to run and jump on to is a monthly occurrence and I love the last picture of my family all clean, out of the bath, in pj's and sitting with Dad, as it should be.