NCMA sculpture park

I took the boys on a walk through the sculpture park at the North Carolina Museum of Art. We hadn't explored all the trails there yet and I was surprised to see that they even connect with the Raleigh greenway trail system. We love exploring all of the trail systems here. We found some fun sculptures back in the woods that we hadn't seen before. And I also nearly ran right over a copperhead snake that was in the middle of the trail. We have already found 3 different kinds of snakes hanging out by our back porch and in our garage this spring. Yikes!

The Cloud Chamber. It's like a giant pinhole camera. An opening in the roof projects an inverted image of the sky onto the floor when you go inside. Pretty cool.

Pointing out the snake.

Hudson River Valley: Storm King Art Center

We met up with my brother and his family at the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson River Valley. The kids were thrilled to be reunited with their cousins James and Isla. This gigantic sculpture park was the perfect place for the kids to run and play and for the adults to visit and enjoy some amazing sculptures. I was blown away by the size and scope of the park and the sculptures (over 130 sculptures by artists like Alexander Calder and Mark Di Suvero). The fall colors only made it that much more stunning. We started with a tram ride around the whole park since there was no way we could walk through all of it. We hopped off the tram at the Andy Goldsworthy wall which was beautiful. The kids had fun playing hide and seek around the wall.

 Fall and summer all in one.