Cherish the Earth

Quilt & Creation. Pt. 9. Plant Communities: My Favorite 4Wheel Drive Road

Janice KirkJuly 5th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation|Tags: 4wheel drive, cherish the earth, core of life, Denali National Park, gratitude, habitats, landscape quilt, life community, native plants, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, park, plant communities, preserve, refuge, restoration, Savannah|

Trace the map and find out how to get from Pt. A to Pt. B [...]

The Quilt & the Creation. Pt. 3. Travel Bug

Janice KirkApril 3rd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation, The Gospel Lifestyle|Tags: abundant life, agates, aspen, beetles, breath of life, camouflage, camping, chain stitch, cherish the earth, community, compound eyes, desert scrub, entomology, French knots, Gospel lifestyle, gratitude, it takes a village, marmots, nature notes, outline stitch, Quilt, quilt blocks, quilting, redwood giants, restoration, Roosevelt Elk, Sabbatical, satin stitch, shelf fungi, Thank God, travel bug, Virgin River, vision, white alders, wild roses, Zion Canyon|

Travel Bug The travel bug? We certainly had it. Stepping away from our [...]

The Quilt & the Creation. Pt. 2. The Plan

Janice KirkMarch 6th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation|Tags: abundant life, animal behavior, bark beetle, be generous, bird tracks, Book of Nature, Christian faith, climate change, climate crisis, creeks, deserts, drought, ecosystems, forest, Gospel lifestyle, gypsy moth, holy moments, how then shall we live, it takes a village, meadows, native fish, naturalist, nature's ways, otherness, overdevelopment, overgrazing, Plant community, prairie, pure water, Quilt, quilting, share, something more, Southwest, spiritual benefits, wilderness, wildlife|

Bird tracks cross our Southwest Journey The best year of our lives [...]

The Quilt and the Creation: 1. Great Idea

Janice KirkJanuary 30th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation|Tags: bedspread, biomes, ecosystems, embroidery, God's wonders, habitats, Hawaiian print, Pilgrimage, Quilt, quilting, rabbit trails, Sabbatical, sojourn, vegetation zone|

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 [...]

Nature Notes. Hovenweep NM 1959

Janice KirkJuly 11th, 2020|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: Cajon Mesa, collared lizard, desert camping, Hovenweep NM, I Pray for the Earth, Mesa Verde NP, night sky, nomads, Paleoindians, Square Tower Group, Twin Towers, VW bus|

Cherish the Earth. Going to Holden Part 2. Life at Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 15th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: chalet, cherish the earth, community, Creation Care, dish team, disposables, fruits and vegetables, garbology, healthy diet, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, inclusiveness, Lake Chelan, life is short, live sustainably, microcosm, mine remediation, Railroad Creek, re-purpose, recycle, social justice, solidarity, summer garden|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA 1980 Part 2. Life at Holden [...]

Cherish the Earth. Part 1. Going to Holden

Janice KirkFebruary 8th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: copper mine, ELCA, Eucharist, Holden Evening Prayer, Holden Village, Lady of the Lake, Lake Chelan WA, Lucerne, North Cascades, out sketching, Railroad Creek, vespers, village naturalist|

View from Chalet 3, Holden Village WA Part 1. Going to Holden Getting [...]

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 [...]

Nature Notes. Marmot Springs. Part 2. The Gift of Pure Water

Janice KirkMay 12th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes|Tags: beaver, cherish the earth, harmony of life, Oregon juncos, pure water, Warner Mountains CA, wilderness|

In my previous Blog, I tell how my family and I found the [...]

Cherish the Earth. Lenten Lament for the Earth

Janice KirkMarch 25th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: deforestation, drought, Fred Bahnson, grief liturgy, invasive animals, invasive vegetation, Lent Lament, life networks, loss of soil, ocean of garbage, poisoned water, pollution, sack cloth and ashes, snowflakes, stand in the gap, suffering of the earth, symmetry, weeping and wailing, white rhino|

In one short space of time I found myself in ecological anger and angst about [...]

Cherish the Earth. Take Time to Behold God’s Wonders

Janice KirkFebruary 24th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth|Tags: animal kingdom, Behold, beholders, beholding, cherish the earth, earth, green infrastructure, herald, holistic, networks of life, rivers in the desert, watchers, well-being, wilderness|

Behold! A Pasqueflower at Haviland Lake, Colorado How often do we really look [...]