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Nature Notebook: Sun Print Tutorial
Another skill for your Nature Notebook!!! This one is really fun. Make a sunprint using cyanotype paper and collected plants, leaves, feathers, etc.These are so beautiful and can be used in your nature notebook, pasted onto a greeting card, or put into a frame!Celebrate the …
All Grass Farms Fresh Egg Makers
The first animals we visited on All Grass Farms were the egg laying chickens. There were 1,000 of them droning like a siren in unison and moving as a flock, too. There was something otherworldly about the experience. It was louder than you can imagine!!! …
All Grass Farms Farm Store and Tour
Did you know that Spring Bird’s neighbor is an amazing pasture farm called All Grass Farms? Just across Rt. 31, they raise dairy cows, chicken eggs, meat chickens, beef cattle, pork, and turkeys. All animals get fresh grazing land as needed and live happy, healthy lives …
Waiting For the Bus
I drew this image for the Fall Issue of Woolgathering. It’s my daughter, Penelope, waiting for the bus in her very first jean jacket, which she received as her birthday present last May. In the Fall Issue, I wrote about how I cherish my time …
Free Fall Desktop Image
The Seasons are changing, and so must your desktop/laptop Wallpaper image! Save the above image to your desktop and have Fall invade your digital space!!! Enjoy! Anna
Nature Notebook: Leaf Rubbing and Printing Tutorial
As fall approaches, the leaves will be released from the trees. I really enjoy getting to know the leaves, noticing them, and incorporating them into my art practice. Here are two ways to use leaves in your creative expressions- leaf rubbings and leaf prints. These …
Fallen Oak and The Sunshine
Last week, we lost another large oak. Its trunk snapped about 15 feet up and fell taking small trees and branches with it. The insides look like pulverized dust. I was, of course, filled with tremendous sadness. I always take it personally. Was there something …
Trail Maintenance
Part of the work we do here at Spring Bird is to maintain trails that were laid out by Torkel Korling years ago. The jungle like tendencies of the weed trees keep us busy with just their trimming, but every once in awhile a tree …
Flutterby Butterflies
My neighbor Danuta Loane gifted us with the opportunity to care for a dozen monarch caterpillars, fatten them with milkweed, and release them after they emerged from their chrysalises. We had never cared for monarchs before, and their appetite was astounding to me. At their …
Summer Tomatoes
In my opinion, there is little that you can grow in your Summer Garden that is better than a tomato! They just don’t taste any better grown anywhere else! Garden tomatoes represent so much of my childhood and the best parts of Summer. My Mom …
Nature Notebooks: Pamphlet Book Tutorial
Last year, I shared a blog post detailing this same project. Here is my video version of making a pamphlet book. I use these pamphlet books for EVERYTHING! They work for making notebooks, sketchbooks, idea books, journals, schedules, and the list goes on. For this …
Hospitality and Wholeness
Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.”-Henri Nouwen I am always aware of how spaces and places affect me – make me feel open or closed or afraid or hopeful or creative or inspired. It is …
At Last, Braiding Sweetgrass
What if we could fashion a restoration plan that grew from understanding multiple meanings of land? Land as sustainer. Land as identity. Land as grocery store and pharmacy. Land as connection to our ancestors. Land as moral obligation. Land as sacred. Land as self. …