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 […]

A Lifelong Love Ever since I was a little girl, monarchs have fascinated me. I grew up surrounded by a field of wildflowers that was surround by woods with a river running through it. Most of my time was spent in this landscape where my curiosity was nurtured and my love for the natural world […]

There was a BEFORE, before there was an AFTER. This is how the story was made. After fleeing abuse in 2013, I returned to my creative passions, so I applied to Hollins University. My daughters and I our first roadtrip to Roanoke, VA in 2014. In 2016, what is now called THE ROAD TO AFTER […]

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…