Saturday, June 4, 2011

SMITHSONIAN -NATURAL HISTORY

What is amazing about all these Smithsonian Museums, all 17 of them, is that they are FREE.
It is incredible. You could spend a week and more in each of them in order to read and digest everything they contain. Because we are here for 3 years, we have been able to run in for an hour here and there and just catch one or two exhibits and then plan a return visit. And so today we saw the "bones" exhibit and the bugs and Butterfly exhibit. (they have fancier names)
the butterflies were beautiful. You enter into a butterfly habitat and the butterflies are all around you. They even liked to land on my jacket. I think they thought it was a flower. Some of them were enormous-as large as Pres. Albright's hand. There were something like 2000 kinds of butterflies. The bugs and spiders were fascinating and way too big. And the special "bones" exhibit had scientists there today explaining all kinds of fascinating CSI sort of things of bones. Lots of fun.
Crowded today.
The sign of the "Written in Bones" special exhibit. Sorry it is blurry

The butterflies.









That is a big BEETLE

A BEEHIVE
CATERPILLAR
STICK BUG. LOOKS LIKE A STICK

GRASSHOPPER
STICKBUG
BONES EXHIBIT. This man love the study of bones and gave his body to science He and his dog are found below.


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