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Spring is popping all over the place 🙂 Today’s dog walk on and around the boardwalk yielded lots of sights. In just the last couple of days, a lot more tree species are starting to pop. The bare deciduous landscape is now dotted with splashes of bright yellow green, grass green, mineral green, pink and […]
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My anticipated February visit to SPFP finally came to be…. a month late, but we got there! I was wondering how the landscape would compare to past February and early March journal entries. Nature seemed to be in order. The red maples were starting to pop and I saw the wildflower ‘Innocence’ Houstonia procumbensin bloom. […]
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Another favorite tool in my pencil case is General’s Sketch & Wash Pencil. It’s water-soluble graphite. I enjoy it, as up to this point in time, I don’t have the patience to create shaded pencil studies. I do love working in black and white. You can concentrate on tones versus color and in the end, […]
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Toady I practiced being a vegetable, soaking up the sun and enjoying what ever birds flew by. I did see 2 barn swallows, though they were using different tactics to gather insects. I always enjoy watching their flight patterns as the pluck insects from the air but today, they were both on the ground driving […]
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Over the last week, the leaves of the tardily deciduous Water Oaks are finally starting to turn yellow. Soon to fall to the ground, I’m sure. Spring, spring, spring! Such a lovely word 🙂
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My first impression of the Longleaf Pine Savanna in Webb Wildlife Center was ‘magical.’ We fledgling Master Naturalists stood on the edge of the managed Longleaf Pine Savanna listening to the fascinating eco-history given to us by Bob Franklin, a Clemson Extension Agent. The trees were so tall, you had to stand way back to […]
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