“Grounded in place, the study natural history lets us discover the wondrous complexity of life held in a single plot of earth. Wildflowers, trees, useful and medicinal plants, animals, birds, insects — even the very earth whispers an ancient tale of place. The plant community is dictated by the soil itself, aided and informed by the microcosm of water and weather, and from these feeding all that find their homes here. The first links of the food chain are forged underfoot. “Keeping a field journal, making sketches, developing paintings, writing about our observations, taking time to stop and really see,…
Keeping a journal allows us to capture the days and moments as they speed by, celebrate our lives — our families and friends, our pets, travels, observations and more — create a lasting record you will treasure forever. I often…
“I was born with an overwhelming love for stories. Fairytales, fiction, non-fiction, I didn’t care, just as long as someone was willing to tell me a story — or read to me until I was old enough to do so…