I held my inaugural nature journaling field trip, for past workshop participants, at Nemours Plantation on October 30th. Nemours, a private plantation, is located in northern Beaufort County and extends for 8 miles along the southern bank of the Combahee River. It lies within the ACE Basin – a low country treasure that includes approxamately […]
Category Archives: Nature Journaling
National Wildlife Refuge Week – Pickney Island
In celebration of National Wildlife Refuge Week, Water-Dog Outfitters has partnered with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to offer tours of Pinckney Island. Rob and I chose to take the hayride tour. We enjoy Pickney Island but, to date, had not been past Ibis Pond. Here was a chance to scope it out and […]
One More Wildflower
One last wildflower for the season 🙂 Actually, I’ve had the image done for quite a while but, I wanted just the right calligraphic font for it’s title. I played on and off with different styles, most were too static. I think I have the best one now. What do you think? The Climbing Butterfly […]
Meandering on the May
October 1st was nature journaling day on the May River. My good friend, Kate, called and said we must take advantage of the extra high tides and journey up the May to its headwaters. OK! I’m there! We pushed off just after 10 a.m., camera in hand. Not to far into our travels, Kate stopped […]
Nature Journaling Expanded Workshop
I had three students for my inaugural Nature Journaling Expanded Workshop at the Society of Bluffton Artist’s Gallery (SOBA).What fun we had! We began by creating custom journals that included covering two boards, cutting down full sheets of watercolor paper and punching holes so we could assemble our books. Learning page design elements was next, […]
A ‘Carolina’ Perfect Day
If a sensory dictionary existed and you could look up and feel a perfect Carolina day……. today would be there 🙂 We finally had a break from the unusually high heat and humidity that’s been with us for most of September. Yesterday was actually cloudy and in the mid 70’s. That was a shock! And […]
