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 […]

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 […]

Day 1 Day one of Maine Audubon’s Brush with Nature was exciting. My car was packed and I was ready to go, after I tended to the monarchs I raise. I had been looking forward to this event for weeks, so a little rain didn’t stop me, and it set the mood for a lovely color […]

A closer look at how I arrived here…