beauty

What inspired me to write “The Christmas Redwood, a Forest Parable”?

Janice KirkDecember 1st, 2020|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, Christianity, Christmas|Tags: bull elk, burls, cathedral, Christmas gift, cones, Creator's handiwork, ferns, field sketching, gift, Good News, Jesus of Nazareth, labor of love, Lady Bird Johnson Grove, Redwood forest, Redwood National Park, Redwoods, rhododendrons, Save the Redwoods League|

A Christmas Gift The redwood forest is a wondrous place, nearly unbelievable the first time [...]

Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio. Part 2. A private view and more . . .

Janice KirkJanuary 26th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Cherish the Earth, observation, Painting America the Beautiful, wonder|Tags: Death Valley, earth stewardship, eco-communities, Fourteener peaks, green infrastructure, life networks, lifelines, Pilgrimage, plant communities, Red Rock Country, wholeness of creatioin|

Part 2. Painting my private view and “something more . . .” In my last [...]

Painting America the Beautiful. The Art Portfolio Pt. 1. A Sense of Place

Janice KirkJanuary 19th, 2019|Categories: beauty, Blog, Out Sketching, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Art Portfolio, Canyon Country, Colorado prairie, Great Basin, Journal, Rocky Mountains, Sabbatical, Sense of Place, Sketchbook|

Part 1. “A sense of place, a private view, and something more . . .” [...]