Welcome back to Dan’s photo challenge. This week’s prompt continues a series related to the thought of inventions and gizmos. You can check out Dan’s photos at his weekly prompt post here.

This week’s theme is Workstations.

My teacher days were back in the dark ages before digital cameras so those work spaces are left to your imagination. For the most part I was in elementary schools, though, so you can pretty much imagine it — bulletin boards, classroom libraries, a prominent calendar, some inspirational posters stuck to cinder block walls with what we called sticky tack (I think I’ve seen it called mounting putty lately), and a teacher desk overflowing with piles of “please for the love of all things holy don’t forget to do this” stuff. It was colorful chaos most days.

Once the kids came home that became my central workspace. These first few photos — kitchen table, blue recliner, and sofa — are of places where so much work has been done in all of our homes. Creative work, homework, research, shopping, bills, healthcare, insurance issues, and on and on and on. All the things that make a life get handled inside these walls.

But outside the walls were some workspaces too. Ones where the kids learned things like birds will absolutely fly away if you try to touch them, and I learned things like it doesn’t all have to get done right now, stop worrying about the grocery list and just enjoy the sun on your face.