Nature Study
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Leaf love
The girls and I went for a walk (in their case, a run) last week looking for leaves to sketch for our inaugural leaf study. As with most topics in nature study, this…
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But for what nature does to us
Many people — I am myself one — would never, but for what nature does to us, have had any content to put into the words we must use in confessing our faith.…
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Fox tales
Back in the spring, we heard a gray fox bark nearly every night for awhile. It’s a disturbing sound, screamy and rather tortured. (There are some examples at youtube.) It would always begin…
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Monarch Madness: Summing Up
We first started looking for monarch caterpillars in early August. I’ve posted on our experience as it has unfolded, and as the adventure draws to a close I want to sum up and…
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“Watching Peeper”: A 10-year-old’s nature journal
I don’t often post my daughters’ work online, for various reasons. But I’m making an exception for my 10-year-old’s “Watching Peeper” journal pages about her monarch caterpillar. As you can see, she enjoys…
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Nature Notes: Recent Birds
Here are some new-to-us birds we’ve seen lately. I snapped this photo in the back yard. “It looks like a catbird, but brown,” I mused. My ten-year-old came to look at the picture.…
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Nature Notes: Mystery Solved
Caractacus the mystery caterpillar has revealed his true identity at last. As a caterpillar, he puzzled us by varying the usual coloration of a monarch: But in every other respect he acted like…
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Flood Pics
Everything is shut down today, we’re boiling water, and waiting to see the final verdict on the damage. Lots of folks are at evacuation centers. We are very fortunate to have a house…
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Chrysalis Formation
I took some video of a monarch caterpillar’s chrysalis forming today. The caterpillar had spun its silk button and attached itself to the underside of a milkweed leaf — not the ideal spot,…
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This week’s butterflies
Seen this week… This is an older picture — from back in June, but now identified. This is from a few weeks ago. How does a butterfly so torn up continue to fly?…
