Nutrition Quiz

Use these lettered definitions to match up with the terms listed below!

a. components of food that are indispensable to the body's functioning; they provide energy, serve as building material, help maintain or repair body parts, and support growth

b. carbon containing

c. the study of the nutrients in foods and in the body

d. the foods (including beverages) a person eats and drinks

e. nonnutrient compounds in plant-derived foods having biological activity in the body

f. the sum of a culture's habits, customs, beliefs, and preferences concerning food

g. foods associated with particular cultural subgroups within a population

h. the capacity to do work

i. the nutrients the body cannot make for itself (or cannot make fast enough) from other raw materials

j. the nutrients the body can use for energy

k. pills, liquids, or powders that contain purified nutrients or other ingredients

l. medically, any substance that the body can take in and assimilate that will enable it to stay alive and to grow

m. beans, peas, and lentils valued as inexpensive sources of protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber that contribute little or no fat to the diet

n. compounds other than the six nutrients that are present in foods and that have biological activity in the body

o. the complete set of chromosomes that comprises the entirety of an organism's genetic information

Nutrition Quiz

Use the definitions above to match with these terms. Email your answers to me and I will tell you how well you understand nutrition~

_____ 1. nutrition

_____ 2. essential nutrients

_____ 3. food

_____4. nonnutrients

_____5. organic

_____6. foodways

_____7. energy-yielding nutrients

_____8. nutrients

_____9. energy

_____10. legumes

_____11. phytochemicals

_____12. supplements

_____13. ethnic foods

_____14. diet

_____15. genome

For my Shutterbugs project I needed to research one of my favorite photographers and then try to emulate him or her. I chose Ansel Adams (1902-1984).

Adam's work, spanning 70 years of his life, was a "proselytizing" medium, bringing the beauty of the wild parts of America to the public heart and, with the public behind him, to the politician's table. His collection of mostly black and white photographs has been accredited with helping to establish the Nati0nal Parks organization, and his years of service with the Sierra Club were dedicated to protecting and preserving the wilderness areas that so many of us appreciate.

In the preface of his autobiography, Adams wrote, "People are surprised when I say that I never intentionally made a creative photograph that related directly to an environmental issue, though I am greatly pleased when a picture I have made becomes useful to an important cause. I cannot command the creative impulse on demand. I never know in advance precisely what I will photograph. I go out into the work and hope I will come across something that imperatively interests me. I am addicted to the found object. I have no doubt that I will contiue to make photographs till my last breath" (Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, 1985).

Adams died one month after those words were written. His autobiography was published after his death.

Here are my attempts to emmulate Adams' work:

This is Adams' "Oak Tree, Snowstorm, Yosemite National Park, California, c.1948" This is my "Maple Tree, Snowstorm, Argyle, New York, c.2011" This is Adams' "Dune, White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, c.1942"

This is my "Welcome Center, Ontario Canada, c.2001"

This is Adams' "Vernal Fall, Yosemite Valley, California, c.1948"

This is my "Rocky Mountain Snowstorm, Colorado, c.2001"

This is Adams' "Siesta Lake, Yosemite National Park, California, c.1958"

This is my "Crane Pond, Adirondack National Park, New York, c.1999"

This is one of Adams' most notable photographs. It is called "Georgia O'Keefe and Orville Cox, Canyon de Chelly National Park, Arizona, c.1937." I have tried to emmulate this one with two of my children (not terribly successful as you may notice...my version is at the beginning of this post!) I will try again in the warmer weather when there is less snow and I can get a little better angle.

I've started noticing Adams' photography in many places. His work truly does stand out above many other wilderness photographers. My only disappointment in researching Adams was that I could not find any photographs by him of my own beloved Adirondacks.

Hubby's Christmas Gift, Early!

Paul couldn't wait to give me this year's Christmas gift, and I'm so glad he didn't! It's a non-electric Singer Treadle Sewing Machine! I've been looking for one and had downloaded instructions for building one. We even had a cast iron base just like the one in the photo. What a blessing for Paul to find one for sale locally and at the right price. Now if I can just learn to pump and sew at the same time!

Our babies are three weeks old!

They're all here and doing fine. Our last few eggs were duds so we have just four chicks. One looks just like the mother (pure Ancona from a green egg with an Ancona father) and 2 of the others will look like Anconas, too, one with a possible Buff Orpington mother. The fourth is black with a white chest and will most likely look like a Black Australorpe, just like Smokey Mountain Mama!


We try to handle them a lot but they continue to be skittish. We had them in the house for a couple days because of inclement weather and a loss of power. The cat, Moochie, likes to sit and "bird watch" but sometimes runs when we come into the room. We assume she is feeling guilty for having bad thoughts about birds!

We've finally moved them to the porch again and out of the dog pen. They have a boarded off corner all to themselves and a heat lamp for these cold evenings. We hope to give up the heat lamp at the end of this week and move them outside in another week. So sweet! It will be hard to put them out into the big scary world!

Our Newest Member

Welcome to the newest member of our ever growing farm family! This baby chick hatched on Tuesday the 18th. He is a beautiful auracana with a fiesty disposition. We were glad he only had to spend one night alone, as two siblings hatched the following day. We have three more eggs to go so we'll post photos of the whole brood once they all have arrived.


It was such a thrill to be home at the time of the hatching. We took a break from math and enjoyed a spontaneous science lesson. Wow...we had never seen this before!

Our four hatchlings are doing well and enjoying their home on our porch where it is sunny, warm, and easy to take a peek at any time. We have two with stripes, one dark brown with a fuzzy "beard", and a dark charcoal chick who resembles our brooding mother.

New Life in New York

Nicole found a chrysalis in her bean plants and brought it in the house. We placed the branch into a vase and watched it for several days until we could distinctly see the formed monarch inside. We tried to watch it on that day, but wouldn't you know, it "hatched" while we were all busy. By the time we noticed it was no longer in its tiny home, it was making its way up the screen. The girls took it outside and let it dry in the sun until it took flight and left our little farm. What an amazing thing! I read once that a caterpillar's mass turns entirely to liquid while in its chrysalis. The particles miraculously mix and reform as the butterfly or moth it is to become. This truly makes a new life, as it no longer has any of its prior form. What a beautiful reminder of our creative Creator!!