Green leaves are everywhere! And if you haven’t noticed, leaves from different types of trees look entirely different! Today’s activity is the first of a two-part activity. It is both an art activity and a lesson on tree identification.

My brain is hard at work designing a blog with lots of good content for those who love nature and… Read more Blog Details

Have you ever seen a wild cat? This elusive creature is capable of slipping away into the twilight so that you wonder, did I see that? Was it really there?

Images of summer are all around us now. And many great writers have shared their images of summer with the world. Read on…

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenest against Natre not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven
and earth.” – John Milton, Tractate of Education

“Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two …

Today marks the beginning of summer on my calendar – what about yours?

I hope your enjoy this accumulation of sensory images from my acre in southwest Tulsa.

Time for another round of “What’s the Difference?” Maybe you’ve always wondered about something in the natural world, two things that seem to be so
closely similar – why do they have different names?  Let’s investigate.

What’s the Difference between a TORTOISE and a TURTLE?
Actually, they are both turtles, the only shelled reptiles. Turtles have been around for about 18.5 million years. The
seven basic kinds of turtles are mud and musk turtles, pond and marsh turtles, …

“Nature, as we know her, is no saint.” – Henry David Thoreau, Essays

Any writer knows that there are only a few possible major conflicts available when writing fiction: Man against Man, Man against Himself, and Man against Nature. Only within the last
fifty years or so has mankind in the developed nations of the world truly been able to insulate himself/herself from the power of nature. We rarely encounter animal predators, we maintain
temperatures for our comfort, and food is (for the most part) readily available. …

Along the same line as last Friday’s post on National Parks – today’s post is about some of my favorite Oklahoma Parks; one of them is a
former National Park, while another is a federal Wildlife Refuge.

The Chickasaw National Recreation Area, near Sulphur, in east central Oklahoma, used to be a National Park. But just because it no longer is doesn’t mean it’s not worth a visit.
Once famous for it’s ‘healing waters’ the 640-acre site adjacent to …

I walk, drive, run, jump and play on the earth all day every day, but how often do I look, really look, at the ground beneath my feet?

As a child, I learned the basics of geology. (Do you remember learning about sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rock?) I learned about our planet’s core, and the formation of the continents, and
maybe something about earthquakes and volcanoes. The teacher probably talked about how soil forms and how rivers change their paths over time, how lakes and even …