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Just Around the Corner: December 2011
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Wednesday, December 28, 2011. A flicker of red. Red-shafted northern flickers ( Colaptens auratus. Thought about the name of this bird until the other day when I found this colorful cluster of feathers in the woods of Howarth Park. After a moment thinking the color was artificial and had been left by careless humans, I recognized the color and pattern as I really grasped what was red-shafted about the northern flickers in these woods. Santa rosa ca USA.
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Just Around the Corner: April 2012
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Once home, I began looking through my field guides and listening to sound samples at the Macaulay Library. I was certain of my identification of Wilson's warbler ( Cardellina pusilla. Here are some links to information about the birds I think are the most likely suspects:. Yellow warbler ( Setophaga petechia. Orange-crowned warbler ( Vermivora celata. Wilson's warbler ( Cardellina pusilla. Posted by Debbie Drechsler.
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Just Around the Corner: A gathering of lizards
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Thursday, May 24, 2012. A gathering of lizards. Where the lizards gather. I've read that Western fence lizards ( Sceloporus occidentalis. Fence lizards and a skink hanging out. One morning in early spring I arrived just as the sun hit the rocks and was pleasantly surprised to find a gathering of several lizards andl Western skinks ( Plestiodon skiltonianus. Western fence lizards easing out of a tiny cave in a big wall of rock. Santa rosa ca USA. Howar...
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Just Around the Corner: Dressing up to do battle
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Monday, May 7, 2012. Dressing up to do battle. One afternoon, at the end of March, I went looking for one of my favorite spring wildflowers, Marah oreganus,. Posted by Debbie Drechsler. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Santa Rosa, CA, United States. I walk, draw and wonder. View my complete profile. Some of my favorite places to visit. A Nature Art Journal. A Sketch In Time. An Illustrator's Life for Me! Art and the Aesthete. Art, birds, nature.
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Just Around the Corner: Bluebird
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Friday, July 13, 2012. Posted by Debbie Drechsler. July 15, 2012 at 2:19 PM. July 15, 2012 at 5:56 PM. These Bluebirds are BEAUTIFUL. I love this painting. July 29, 2013 at 5:07 AM. Hi, Debbie. Hope youre Ok. I just want to show you this artists paints. She is May Ann Liccudine. Http:/ www.mayannlicudine.com/mall art.html. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Santa Rosa, CA, United States. I walk, draw and wonder. View my complete profile.
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Just Around the Corner: February 2012
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Saturday, February 25, 2012. However, the other day, as I walked through an area in Howath Park where children get pony rides on weekends, I noticed a large pile of horse manure with several mushrooms sprouting merrily out of it. Imagine my joy at finding mushrooms, any mushrooms! That they were fruiting in manure was an added bonus because it meant that I would be able to more easily identify them. More about the ways fungi nourish themselves:. Last ...
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Just Around the Corner: Slug and Manroot
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Sunday, May 13, 2012. Banana slug stealthily eating manroot leaves. A few weeks ago we were having unseasonably cold weather and I found myself looking, though unsuccessfully, for Banana slugs ( Ariolimax columbianus. As I walked in the cold, gray early mornings. Then it got a bit warmer and rain gave way to blue skies and sun. I gave up on the slugs and went off to look at a Manroot or Wild cucumber plant ( Marah oreganus. Headed home for the day.
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Just Around the Corner: November 2011
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Monday, November 14, 2011. Both sketches were done with #2 pencil on Strathmore 400 sketch paper. Watercolor and colored pencil were added to the first sketch later in the day. Posted by Debbie Drechsler. Links to this post. Santa rosa ca USA. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Santa Rosa, CA, United States. I walk, draw and wonder. View my complete profile. Some of my favorite places to visit. A Nature Art Journal. A Sketch In Time. Art and the Aesthete.
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Just Around the Corner: October 2011
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Monday, October 31, 2011. A visit with a snake. The tail would come up in a tight coil and wave about a few times then remain poised in the air until I retreated. There was a tannish band around the snake's neck, and the jet black upper part of it's body was shiny, as if wet, not what I would have expected from a snake. Chloe and I stayed about a half hour. Ring-necked snakes ( Diadophis punctatus. Are really different from one another. Spent a good t...
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Just Around the Corner: January 2012
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Just Around the Corner. Drawing nature close to home. Saturday, January 14, 2012. A death in the park. I was at the end of a walk when I heard, then saw, a mob of American crows ( Corvus brachyrhynchos. As I looked around I saw that I was being regarded by a Turkey vulture ( Cathartes aura. With what appeared to be dignified indifference. Posted by Debbie Drechsler. Links to this post. Santa rosa ca USA. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Santa Rosa, CA, United States. I walk, draw and wonder. A Sketch In Time.
