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I just discovered that last year the United Nations General Assembly declared that beginning today, World Ocean Day is to always be celebrated on June 8th! Katherine Tyrrell, a very talented artist and information guru has posted an intensive, interesting blog post regarding World Ocean Day, that will knock your socks off. Please, please take […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Let’s switch for a minute to the Southwest. My sister sent this organic sculptural ensemble from Arizona. We have always referred to the individual piece as Cat’s claw. However, when I googled the plant name today, I couldn’t find any images that matched the dried fruit(?). Everything referred to the thorns on the Cat Claw […]
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A few Saturday’s ago, I wandered down the tree line in back of the house to the multi-trunked Sweetbay, Magnolia virginiana L., in hopes that there were still fresh blooms to paint. I had my watercolor sketchbook, travel set of holbein watercolors and my NIJI waterbrush. No campstool. No pencil. I just wanted to paint! […]
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Highlights of the day; a good sized pod of Bottle-nosed Dolphin swam by not too far off shore, but what really made my heart soar was watching children collecting Starfish in shallow pools left behind by the receding tide and bringing them down to the ocean to throw them into deep water. I couldn’t contain […]
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