Tag: Nature Reflection

Monthly Nature Sketches

Monthly Nature Sketches

Here’s a long story about this simple spread in my sketchbook. As you know, I write Woolgathering, a nature magazine about our connection to the seasons. Part of the mission of this magazine is to inspire awareness of the patterns and cycles in nature, which requires observation 

I Make My Own Magazine, and You Can Too!

I Make My Own Magazine, and You Can Too!

Who Said Print Media Is Dead? This is the third year of making my own magazine,  Woolgathering, a quarterly publication about the seasons. Realizing that we are growing more and more disconnected from nature, I wanted to create a magazine that connects the reader to a 

Everyday Woolgathering: Bone Fragment

So, I spent most of yesterday morning praying to the Creative Gods for a sign telling me how to better shape my business. Creatively, I am pursuing a lot of different projects, and I think it’s too many directions to market effectively. It’s SUPER hard for me 

Everyday Woolgathering: Damselflies and Mosquito Clouds

Have you ever walked into a Mosquito Cloud?  Are these the boys flying in circles while the women mosquitoes go out and get blood? This is what I think about everytime I walk through a particular mosquito cloud that hovers over the path  to my 

Everyday Woolgathering: Chicory

The kids and I have been practicing being naturalists this Summer. We have found this structure, designed by Claire Leslie in The Nature Connection, to be a useful means for capturing a moment or phenomenon of a day. Since I am obsessed with marking time and