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April 13, 2008

Web-surfing Sunday: Backyard fun

flower petals

Spring is here -- and your school-age kids are probably bringing home buds in baggies, earthworms to feed, and other charming signs of the season. They're probably itching to get outside, and full of questions about what's growing there -- questions for which you've probably forgotten the answers. (At least I have, if I ever knew them.)

Backyardnature.net is a fun source for projects and knowledge about the backyard, with subjects ranging from "the many kinds of fungi" to 101 Things to Do This Spring.

(Photo of the fallen blossoms my children gathered in a pile in our front yard, by me)

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I'm hoping it gives advice on how to keep my kindergartner from making me presents of the neighbors' long-awaited spring flowers...

Posted by: suburbancorrespondent | April 13, 2008 10:41 AM

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About Kate Shatzkin

Kate Shatzkin is the parenting and families content editor at The Baltimore Sun and, before that, was its family beat reporter. But her most challenging and rewarding job is being mother to Leah, 8, and Sam, 6.

In her 14 years at The Baltimore Sun, Kate also has covered nonprofit organizations, prisons and courts, and has written several investigative series. She was previously a Knight journalism fellow at Yale Law School and a reporter at the Seattle Times and at the Patriot-Ledger of Quincy, Mass. She lives in Baltimore with her family.

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