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If the sky were completely cloudy and I had lost track of what day it was, I’d still know that either a new or full moon was about to happen. Why? The Spring Tide. This is the name for the tide that occurs at the time of the full and new moon and is 20% […]
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Rob had a tee time of 10:30 at Old South Golf Links. He loves to arrive early and warmup at the driving range. It was a beauty of a morning. I brought my Stillman & Birn 8.5 x 11 journal and a few empty pages from my unbound journal. While Rob warmed his golf game […]
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Back view of a Wood Stork tending eggs in its nest. I treated myself and spent the good part of last Saturday at the rookery on Spring Island. I arrived at 11 a.m. and didn’t leave until 4 p.m.! I toted my birding scope and camp stool to a wonderfully shady spot and set up […]
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This will be on the back of the shirt. We are all preparing for Camp Spring Island at work. I’m in charge of designing T shirts for the campers and volunteers. This year we are celebrating the Spotted Eagle Ray. I love the research process when I’m asked to drawn something totally unfamiliar. The best […]
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Memory sketches Last Friday evening while walking the dogs along the cart path on hole 17, the rising moon stole my heart. The high spring tide captured the reflection of this supermoon. When we returned home, I recreated the scene on my iPad using the Paper 53 app. I created the image on the right first, […]
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On May 14th, I spent about an hour at the rookery sketching while looking through my birding scope and a lot of time just observing the Wood Storks, Great Egrets and Anhinga. I witnessed storks on the ground playing tug-a-war with a large stick. The winner flew off with it, landed in a large pine […]
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