Vivien Blackburn has posted a Challenge to paint or sketch trees. The sketches must be done from life – my favorite way to sketch and paint 🙂 I’ve gathered together a few that I created. The first is the currently blooming, ever beautiful Loblolly Bay. I cut a sprig from this much loved Loblolly Bay […]
Category Archives: Nature Journaling
Wednesday at Cheraw
Up and out by 6:30 a.m. I wanted to catch early morning light on Lake Juniper. It really is a lovely time of day. Returned to the cabin for breakfast with my love, then we picked up the golf cart. Because it’s the golf course’s slow time, we were given full run 🙂 I love […]
Monday at Cheraw
We arrived at Cheraw State Park around 2 p.m. on the 15th. It took a little over 3 hours, mostly on Rt. 95, then at exit 164, we headed west on Rt 52. Living in Beaufort County, we really get an unrealistic view of South Carolina. Now I understand why our county is last on […]
A Trip to the Mail Box…..
Sometimes, this student of nature, just can’t stick with her well- intentioned daily ‘to do’ list. But, how often do you run across a brave anole, that could give a rip about you being a zillion times bigger than he is, and just continues hunting bugs 2 inches from your toes? I ask you!?! He […]
It’s that time!
For the last week I’ve been noticing the Beauty-berry shrubs, Callicarpa americana L., are sporting their tiny flowers 🙂 Hopefully, this summer, we’ll have enough rain so the wonderfully, beautiful Beauty-berries will mature! Can you tell their one of my favorites? By the by, we had a great time at Pinckney Island Wildlife Refuge for […]
Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge Field Trip
Tomorrow, I lead past nature journaling workshop participants on a field trip to Pinckney Island. I love these ‘refresher’ field trips. Workshops are a great way to introduce the joys and techniques of journaling but, they are also intense and a lot of information is consumed. Field trips give workshop graduates a chance to utilize […]
