Earthshine… what a lovely word! I probably learned it as a youth, but paying attention to science, history and math really wasn’t my thing back then 🙂 Just imagine if illustrated nature journaling was part of my school’s classroom curriculum…. ooh, la, la… what fun it would have been to learn these subjects through art! […]
Category Archives: Nature Journaling
Moon Convergence with Planet Venus
One of the many reasons I love our dogs is that they have to be walked. So many sights I would have missed if not outside with them. This is a memory sketch of yesterday’s celestial happening. You can see it this evening, too 🙂Look in the western sky not too long after sunset. The […]
Black-crowned Night Heron Juvi
click to enlarge It was a sunny, crisp morning. The wind kicked up a bit and the dogs were frisky in the cooler temps. On the way back from our morning walk I spotted five Great Egrets and a couple of Black-crowned Night Heron juvi’s roosting in the trees along the pond near our home. […]
Harvest Moon and 9/11
Harvest Moon 2010 Sunday, September 11th and Monday, September 12th, one of the most popular lunar events of the year takes place. The Harvest Moon 🙂 The name “Harvest Moon’ is given to the Full Moon that’s closest to the Autumnal Equinox. Sometimes it falls in early October. Other names for this moon are Fruit, […]
A Day at the Beach and Whitelines Paper
Being at the beach on Hilton Head Island in August can make you feel like a sardine packed in oil, in a very small can. The word ‘crowded’ just doesn’t fit the bill. Rob and I found this out back in 2007, our first full year back in the low country since the mid ’80s. […]
Full Stawberry Moon Chronicles
Click image to read right page. I’ve been anticipating this full moon all month. After missing the opportunity to paint last month’s full moon eve, I was determined to capture this month’s. I was expecting the same overly large looking moon. Not so! I wonder what determines that optical illusion? What ever it is, it […]
