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Blog 85. Prayers for the Earth: I Mourn the Trees

Janice KirkSeptember 9th, 2025|Categories: Blog, Cherish the Earth, land stewards, Prayers for the Earth|Tags: aspen, balance, balance of nature, care for the earth, Creation Care, cycles, desperate need, fog, forest, forgive our sins, guardians, habitats, harmony, lament, Lord have mercy, mourn the trees, oxygen, patterns, prayers for the earth, rain, rhythms, sins, sorrow, trees, water keepers, weeping|

O God, . . . Do not hold against us the sins of past generations; [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 3.

Janice KirkSeptember 15th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, cadmium red, fog, mystery, Prussian blue, raw sienna Payne's gray|

Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 2. Leaf Language

Janice KirkSeptember 8th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, En Plein Air, fog, leaf language, Morilla watercolor paper, San Juan Mountains, sienna, spectrum|

Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Aspen Forest in the Fog. Part 1. Aspen Lore

Janice KirkSeptember 1st, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, inscape, Quaking Aspen, San Juan Mountains, wild edible plants|

Aspen Forest in the Fog, CO Sabbatical painting: . . . I [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Great Basin Valley South of Ely, NV. Part 3. Sky Island Topography and Art

Janice KirkAugust 25th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: "hidden wholeness", aspen, cottontail rabbit, En Plein Air, Great Basin, Great Basin National Park, light, mass, paintbrush, pinon pine, sagebrush, Sierras, silence, sky islands, solitude, space, unity, watercolor painting, wonder|

Great Basin Valley South of Ely, Nevada Part 3. Sky Island Topography and Art In [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Austin Mountain Part 1. The Loneliest Road in America

Janice KirkJuly 28th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: aspen, Austin NV, Austin Summit, Bob Scott campground, ghost town, Lander County, mining boom, Pony Express Route, silver strike, yellow rose|

Austin Mountain, Nevada Sabbatical painting, 1976: Don’s journal: . . . Head for Bob Scott [...]

Out Sketching. Mosquito Loop. Part 3. Bird Blind and Thunder

Janice KirkJune 30th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: aspen, binder twine, Boy Scout knots, deer, Fritillary, Hellebore, pinecone, rainbow, Rapidograph pen, Sumi brush, thunder, Warner Mountains CA, wildflowers|

Part 3. Bird Blind and Thunder In my previous Blog I spend a [...]

Out Sketching. Mosquito Loop Camp. Part 1. Finding a Campsite

Janice KirkJune 16th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: aspen, bog orchids, buttercups, deer, doe, Hellebore, juncos, Mosquito Loop Road, Ponderosa Pine, seep spring, Warner Mountains CA, white-crowned sparrows, wildflowers|

Part 1. Finding a Campsite Scouting for a campsite one day in [...]

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. 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. 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 [...]

Out Sketching. Mosquito Loop. Part 2. Sketching a Geometric Marvel

Janice KirkDecember 9th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: aspen, bird blind, geometric shapes, hexagon, juncos, polygons, puffballs, star puffball, Warner Mountains CA, white-crowned sparrows|

Star Puffball (Calvatia sculpta) Part 2. Sketching a Geometric Marvel. In my previous Blog I [...]