life community

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 [...]

Out Sketching. Seeing the Natural World

Janice KirkMay 9th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: "hidden wholeness", alternate, animal networks, awareness, be attentive, consumers, cosmic design, drawing pencil, dynamic systems, fully alive, God's creation, good neighbor, invisible webs, life community, listening, mysteries, Nature Sketchbook, noticing, opposite, poetry, producers, protectors, ripple patterns, seeing, smelling, touching, undulatus, whorl, wonders|

On the Trail at Crater Lake OR, 6.97 Welcome to the outdoor world! Bring [...]

Painting America the Beautiful: Austin Mountain Part 2. Driving Up Austin Summit

Janice KirkAugust 4th, 2018|Categories: Blog, Painting America the Beautiful|Tags: Austin NV, Austin Summit, Bob Scott campground, green infrastructure, life community, pinon pine, rabbitbrush, sagebrush, watercolor painting|

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

Out Sketching. Mosquito Loop. Part 4. Nature’s Wonders

Janice KirkDecember 23rd, 2017|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: life community, polygon, star puffball, Warner Mountains CA|

Star Puffball (Calvatia sculpta) Part 4. Nature’s Wonders In my previous three Blogs I [...]

Cherish the Earth. It’s All About Love

Janice KirkJuly 1st, 2017|Categories: Cherish the Earth, Out Sketching, The Gospel Lifestyle|Tags: aspen, false lupine, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Great Outdoors, inscape, life community, San Juan Mountains, sticky geranium|

I love the Great Outdoors, and it happened on an extended camping trip when [...]

Nature Notes. Blue Lake. Along the Shore. Part 1. Morning Walk

Janice KirkMarch 18th, 2017|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes|Tags: Blue Lake, cattails, diversity, Ecology, life community, long-horn beetles, marsh, osprey, Ponderosa Pine, Quaking Aspen, sagebrush, Warner Mountains CA, white fir, yellow pond-lily|

From the files of Donald R. Kirk: Part 1. Morning Walk The sun has been [...]

Out Sketching. Meanders of Parsnip Creek. Part 3. The Wonder of Water

Janice KirkJuly 29th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching|Tags: art and science, Blue Lake, life community, Meanders, Warner Mountains CA, water patterns|

(Cont. from Part 2) I am too close to the stream; my boots are getting [...]