It all started with oaks. Some time ago, I sketched a favorite tree and wrote about oaks as a keystone species, and why fallen leaves are...

Drifting in an ocean of healing and recovery, it occurred to me that in this past year I have been places I have never been before. I...

Live oak is one of my favorite trees -- one of the many types of oaks in the world, but only growing in the US within a limited southern...

Summertime in Southwest Florida has a rhythm of its own. It’s a pattern of heat and moisture and rain and cooling. It’s a time of...

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole...” ~ Honore de Balzac There is a wildflower I’m...

Nature is everywhere! I was lucky to have my sketchbook and pencils with me while I waited in the parking lot for about an hour.