Exploring March with Winter Botany and Maine Geology March was a month of drawing dried flowers and Maine geology it was lovely because I had already been drawing winter botany because I find the designs so beautiful. I continued my love of drawing winter wildflowers and fruiting structures in my nature journal and enjoyed searching […]
“Time spent among trees is never wasted time.” Katrina Mayer Through the Trees In the Maine Master Naturalist Program, February was about trees. We looked closely at twigs, and how to identify them, learned about bark, ecosystems, taxonomy, and keys. Bark Tree bark has ridges and grooves, long strips, scales, it can be covered in […]
Mammals, Nature Journaling, Phenology, Delimited Site, Tracking The First Class: Nature Journaling and Phenology On January 8th, 2025, I made my way to Maine Audubon at Gilsland Farm. I’ve been there many times, but this time it was for my first ever Maine Master Naturalist class. When I learned I was accepted in October, I […]
National Poetry Month BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson BROWN GIRL DREAMING sparked my love of novels in verse. I appreciate all the sensory details, like drinking water out of scooped out gourds and the sounds of her surroundings. I felt like I was there with young Jackie as she navigated the changing landscape around […]
plus a Q&A with Heidi Stemple, author of COUNTING BIRDS Each winter since 2017, my daughters and I have participated in the Christmas Bird Count. This year was no different. After our first year in the CBC as feeder counters, at the end-of-day compilation, we met new birder friends. They happened to have a club […]
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