Pretty in pink 🙂  The Common marsh-pink has striking center coloration.  You really need to get up close to see it though. The Rose purslan flower is the most wonderful shade of magenta.  They catch your eye even though the flower is quite small and close to the ground. Another pink flower in bloom, […]
Category Archives: Nature Journaling
Wildflower Finds III
Back to purple 🙂  These morning glories were so lovely I decided to create a journal page just for them. Gil Nelson’s book ‘Atlantic Coastal Plain Wildflowers helped me make the correct ID.  I wrote his comments along the outer edge of the illustration.  Thanks, Gil! ‘The name sagittata means “arrow shaped” in reference to […]
Wild Flowers Finds II
For most of July, all the wildflowers I found were purple or pink.  I found this most curious. Mother Nature must have been reading my thoughts as I then found these brightly colored specimens. I should know to trust Mother’s sense of color 🙂Â
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Wildflower Finds I
These days, my wanderings are highlighted with wildflower finds. Most seem to be purple! Â I’ve two more journal pages to create for this series. One flower was a ‘lifer’ for me. Â I found it on my way back from drawing the Marsh Fern. Â Luckily I had my camera with me as I my schedule didn’t […]
Marsh Fern
It is my quest, this summer, to learn the ferns common to the low country. I studied them while enrolled in the SC Master Naturalist program but, there was so much I was studying, that I didn’t have the time to let each one’s characteristics shine in my mind. The only way I know to […]
