Nature Notes

Blog 86. A Prayer for the Earth. Gossamer This Morning

Janice KirkOctober 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: beauty, call to prayer, capturing the light, cedar, Gossamer, let your light shine, masterwork, reaching, season, settling, silk, spider silk, web|

In the same way, let your light shine before others. . . (Matt 5:16 NRSV) [...]

Blog. 83. Prayer Vigil for the Earth

Janice KirkJune 1st, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, Nature Notes, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: balance of nature, beauty of holiness, call to prayer, Creation Care, fire, flood, insomnia, Lord have mercy, plant communities, prayers for the earth, storms, toxic waste, wonders, worship|

Awake in the night? Is it insomnia? Or is God calling us to prayer? Join [...]

Blog 82. Prayer Vigil for the Earth

Janice KirkMay 3rd, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, land stewards, Nature Notes, plants, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: blessed, call to prayer, center yourself, conservation, creation keepers, desert, devotional, earth stewards, environment, food-oxygen-water, forest, give thanks, God's love, green plants and algae, holy hands, insomnia, jungle, life on earth, listen, marsh, meadow, meditation, native plants, natural areas, Night Watch, photosynthesis, plant communities, prairie, pray, pray for the planet earth, prayers for the earth, refresh, renew, restoration, restore life, silence of the night, tundra. Creator's love, urgent need, vegetation, vigil|

Prayer Vigil for the Earth Join me in praying for the earth in the Watch [...]

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|

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 [...]

Nature Notes. Marmot Springs. Part 1. Camping in Eden

Janice KirkMay 5th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: aspen, beaver, chipmunks, coyotes, deer, East Creek, Eden, Great Basin, great grey owl, Indian Paintbrush, juniper, marmots, Ponderosa Pine, sticky geranium, Swainson's thrush, wall tent, Warner Mountains CA, water leaf, white fir, wildflowers, woodpeckers, wrens, yarrow|

One springtime we wandered into the Warner Mountains of NE California. Looking for a [...]

Nature Notes. The Mouse that Howled. Part 2. Waiting for a Spooky Howl.

Janice KirkMarch 10th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: bathroom burrow, grasshopper mouse, lizards, nest burrow, retreat burrow, scorpion, signpost burrow, stink beetle, Warner Mountains CA, wolf-like howl|

View from Lava Beds CA Juniper Sagebrush Country From the files of Donald R. Kirk: [...]

Nature Notes. The Mouse That Howled. Part 1. A Mouse at the Campfire.

Janice KirkMarch 3rd, 2018|Categories: Nature Notes|Tags: grasshopper mouse, grassland, Great Basin desert, juniper, pinon pine, Ponderosa Pine, shrubland, Warner Mountains CA|

View from Lava Beds CA Juniper Sagebrush Country From the files of Donald R. Kirk: [...]

Nature Notes. Homestead Flat. Part 3. Catching a Trout

Janice KirkJanuary 27th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: artificial flies, aspen, fishing, Homestead Flat, Mayflies, trout, Warner Mountains|

From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part 3. Catching a Trout In my [...]

Nature Notes. Homestead Flat. Part 2. Mayfly Lore

Janice KirkJanuary 20th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: dry-fly fishing, Homestead Flat, mayfly, Warner Mountains CA, wet fly fishing|

From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part 2. Mayfly Lore In my previous blog [...]

Nature Notes. Warner Mountains CA. Homestead Flat. Part 1. Fishing on East Creek

Janice KirkJanuary 13th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: aquatic food chain, aspen, dry-fly fishing, East Creek, grasshopper, humpies, mayfly, Muddler Minnow, salmon eggs, Warner Mountains CA, Western Green Drake mayflies|

From the files of Donald R. Kirk: As I peered over the bank a good [...]

Nature Notes. A Rare Tree. Part 3. An Uncommon Pine Tree

Janice KirkSeptember 23rd, 2017|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: Bald Mountains, British Columbia, Butte Lake, Cascade Mountains, Great Basin, Jeffrey pine, Lassen Volcanic National Park, Mt. Rose, Ponderosa Pine, Quaking Aspen, Sumatran Pine, Warner Mountains CA, Washoe pine, white fir|

Photo: Lightning Scar on Ponderosa Pine Tree From the files of Donald R. Kirk: [...]