~ Nature Artist using Ozark pigments in Kingston, Arkansas ~
Wild Ozark: Where Madison Woods paints with Ozark pigments … and talks to rocks, creeks, and trees.
I did my exercising outside this morning, jog/walked to the mailbox in under 20 minutes – a milestone for me!
Feeding the critters acted as a warm-up spell, but it was
Maclura pomifera, also known as Osage Orange, Bois d’Arc, Hedge-apple, or Horse-apple, the osage tree is native to our area. Even so, there aren’t very many of them in our particular neck of the woods.
Many would consider us still roughing it. Life is a lot more comfortable here now, but we learned a lot about survival since we moved to these wild Ozark hills.
When we first moved here to … Read the rest “Looking back on 10 years of roughing it in the Ozarks – Happy Thanksgiving 2015”
What happens at a nature workshop?My nature workshop is designed to help you reconnect to nature and express your experience through art, writing, and photography. It can be tailored for whatever environment is available (even cities have nature), but … Read the rest “Nature Workshop with Madison Woods”
Sometimes nature writers like to doodle while they’re interpreting nature. My nature journal is a combination of art and written journal entry.
It is both nature sketching and nature journal.
Here are some sample … Read the rest “Wild Ozark Nature Journal on Kindle”
![[Image of a departing storm] With a departing roar the storm rolled off to the east. Clear skies between broken clouds filled the southwestern wake.](https://i0.wp.com/www.wildozark.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/storm-clearing.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1)
