This was a fun little experiment! EB chose “Lava Lamps” from her #Science kit today. (While blowing bubbles…very appropriate!🤣)🫧🫧🫧 ✅ water ✅ oil ✅ citric acid ✅ baking soda #AlwaysWonder #STEM

My prize from Embrace Your Geekness Day came! Thank you @AuthorHMacht, @jlourencowriter, James Braithwaite, and @TundraBooks! Adorable book!🦄🤖 #KidLit

Our resident cormorant (I think), Josh, was drying his wings today as EB and I walked the pond dam. And yes, Josh, is the perfect name for a cormorant according to #EmersynBlake! #AlwaysWonder

Little library haul today, but good mentor texts for a couple of projects in the works…👀 #Clarity #AlwaysWonder

Favorite pics from today’s walk in the backyard! The second one is a Zethus spinipes. Females live and hunt entirely alone and they tend to recycle abandoned insect homes rather than build new ones. Interesting! #AlwaysWonder #InsectsAreCool

Have you wondered about anything today? If so, your brain was doing some amazing things behind the scenes! Find out more and check out some of my favorite first week #PictureBooks to lay the #STEM mindset foundation. kimcollazo.substack.com/p/always-won...

Found this lovely little nest under one of our huge sycamore trees. I’m not a bird expert…are we thinking Hummingbird?🪹 #AlwaysWonder #STEM

Fungi have the coolest kingdom! These three different species were 3 steps away from each other on our pond dam today. Nature’s magic!🪄 #AlwaysWonder #STEM

Who knew?! July is #WatercolorMonth! Thanks for the heads-up, @flashlightpress.bsky.social with all your beautiful books. I have a favorite illustrator who is a MASTER at watercolor. @jilliande.bsky.social brought #EmersynBlake to life with her magical gift!

🥰Yesterday! NC State’s Summer Engineering Camp for 1st & 2nd grdrs chose MY BOOK for the challenge focus! I read Beasties to 60 STEMsters, & they circulated thru 3 amazing stations designed & facilitated by the tching staff! They even 3D printed a Beastie for the test step!👹

😍Look at sweet little Posey in my @SCBWICarolinas newsletter! Way to go @lizziebrooks.bsky.social , she’s a star!

I love that my town’s brand new public library has to put this sign at its entrance!📚❤️

Having so much fun judging this year's entries in the #BestofSTEM awards program. Some AMAZING #STEM companies are creating very cool, relevant, and engaging products for our students and educators!😍

Another great short read from @WhyEdifyGuy! Love this quote from @BreneBrown.💕 www.jeremyajorgensen.com/thrive-this-...

🥺I feel so bad for this little hardworking bird! She built the same beautiful nest under the hood of my car again. Sorry, feathered friend, that’s just not a safe spot! And no, I’ve never seen her (assuming it’s a her…). #AlwaysWonder

I may need to invest in a Turtle Crossing sign for my front yard! 🐢 We’ve got eggs buried everywhere!🤣🤣 #AlwaysWonder

This is a Dyer’s Polypore (also called the velvet-top fungus). It was not there two days ago when I walked the pond dam. AMAZING!🤯 It causes…butt rot…on conifers. And yes, I might have chuckled when I read that!🤣 #AlwaysWonder #PondLife #STEM

Ever heard of a stalked jellyfish? They’re beautiful creatures! Learn all about them along with #EmersynBlake! #AlwaysWonder

Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay from #EmersynBlake! Want to know more about two amazing environments—the pond and the estuary? Join Emersyn on her wonderings journeys! 🌎 #AlwaysWonder #STEM collazocove.com/books

Floating… 😉IYKNK, and if you don’t… Here you go! open.substack.com/pub/kimcolla...

👀 NEW POST! Lots of great #PictureBooks, #STEM ideas, and other wonderings! 😊 #AlwaysWonder collazocove.com open.substack.com/pub/kimcolla...

Got another 🔥 email from @Bubble_Barrier about their amazing work! 🫧🌊 Hey #Editors & #SmallPresses! I’ve written a #STEM #PB that includes them (oh, and a girl and her drone!) AND they have endorsed the story and can’t wait to have copies for their own kids!😍 Interested?

Ever get the feeling you’re being watched? 👀 Look at this beautiful sun bather—a rough greensnake.🐍 Did you know they are not constrictors. They use their tongues to swallow insect and small frogs whole! Cool! #AlwaysWonder #STEM

So sad to hear that the elementary science world has lost one of its fiercest advocates, Kathy Renfrew @sciencelady.bsky.social! Kathy was always so supportive of my stories, and I admired her intelligence and willingness to share her science and literacy expertise with the world!😢

Thought some pine straw had gotten stuck between my windshield and hood. Upon further investigation…🪹 Some little bird spent A LOT of time making this amazing moss-coated nest! I felt so bad removing it! Just glad there were no eggs inside.😢 #AlwaysWonder

Two months ago my granddaughter put mud in a cup along with a tiny rust-colored ball she thought might be a seed. Although the “seed” hasn’t done a thing, look at the beautiful clover she’s grown! #AlwaysWonder #EmersynBlake #STEM

Favorite photo from my backyard walk today!🐝❤️

Oh yay! Look what came today! Thank you Tanya Konerman and @lindsayamoretti.bsky.social !🎉 What an adorable #NF #PictureBook! #STEM

Just had the most wonderful chat with @lydialukidis.bsky.social! Thank you, Lydia for sharing so much great advice with me! My writing journey has been enriched through your generosity.💕 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting