Rocky Mountains

The Quilt & the Creation. Pt. 7. Outdoor Mutual Aid Plant Communities

Janice KirkAugust 7th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation|Tags: antelope bitterbrush, beaver, California, catch and release, comfort, companion planting, competition, Cretan stitch, crewel, decompose, decomposers, dense forest, discovery, Douglas fir, Ecology, ecosystem, fishing, fishing limit, French knots, good reading, habitat, habitats, harmony, interdependence, landscape quilt, laws of nature, mutual benefit, nuclear waste, Oregon grape, Pasque flowers, plant communities, ponderosa parkland, quilt patch, recycle, Rocky Mountains, row boat, satin stitch, shelter, Southwest, spiritual peace, stability, story quilt, undergrowth, web of life, wildflowers|

Fisherman's Luck They were all in the boat, each one eager to catch [...]

The Quilt & the Creation. Pt. 6. Plant Cover: Going, Going, Gone?

Janice KirkJuly 3rd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Nature Notes, Quilt and Creation|Tags: Blue Lake, boreal forest, canopy, closed-canopy, Colorado blue spruce, Douglas fir, ecotone, ferns, field ecologists, forest architecture, fungi, ground cover, herbaceous perennials, herbs, landscape quilt, microbes, mosses, Northwest rainforest, old-growth forest, Pacific rhododendron, pines, plant cover, Ponderosa Pine, rainforest, Rocky Mountains, Sabbatical, salal, shrubs, small trees, Soughing, spiritual values, story quilt, tropical forest, U.S. forests, understory, vegetation, vine maple, white fir|

Douglas Fir Embroidery Decorates My Sabbatical Story Quilt That sound, an other-worldly whushhh filtering [...]

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 . . .” [...]

Praises: Something Beautiful

Janice KirkMarch 3rd, 2016|Categories: Blog, Out Sketching, Prayers, Praises, and Poetry|Tags: quick sketches, Rocky Mountains, snow, Something Beautiful|

Priest Gulch RV Camp, Rocky Mountains, Colorado March 1st, 2016. It’s snowing this morning in [...]