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Nature Sketching Day 8
Yesterday’s Nature Journal entry was created today because a new grandbaby of mine entered the world the night before and I slept through my usual drawing/entry time. There’s a post that corresponds to this entry at the main site. You …
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Nature Sketching Day 6 – “Lobelia Inflata”
Today I went out on foot, backpack loaded with my towel and cushion to sit on, sketch journal, and pencils to do my daily entry for the Wild Ozark Nature Journal. Once I found my subject, this aging Lobelia inflata …
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Nature Sketching Day 3 – Sycamore Leaf
Each day I’ve picked what I think will be a simple subject. Today’s was a single sycamore leaf with no effort to include background, foreground or any other difficult or distracting thing. Then as I settled in and began my …
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Nature Sketching Day 2 – Asters Along the Driveway
Today’s nature sketch is of the purple asters that were growing along the driveway. Each day I try to make an entry with a pencil drawing. …
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Random Nature Connection: Liminal Spaces
Thimbleweed grows often at the forest edge, where it could have full sun or partial shade or deep shade. It is one of those plants that like the liminal spaces. This post is about liminal spaces. If you want to …
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Random Nature Connection – Old Things and A Force to Be Reckoned
Is Nature a force to be reckoned with and hopefully conquered? This post is a prompt to think about our relationship with nature. Join us! I won’t have an essay today, just a few thoughts about this photo and the …
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The Nature of Still Water
We’re holding our breath here this morning at Wild Ozark, waiting to see what happens when the lines on the mountain thaw. See, we’d insulated all the lines under the house and figured, hey, it shouldn’t freeze now under there …
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Random Nature Connection – Abundance in Nature
Vaccinium arboreum Abundance in Nature The other day as we were out scouting for new springs on the mountain, (springs new to us, not springs new in existence and another form of the abundance in nature out here), I looked …
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Random Nature Connection – Resistance to Change
When I see the ice lifting tiny rocks and forming into shards and columns in this way, it reminds me of the rune Isa and causes me to reflect on how resistant to change is all of nature.Me, 2015…
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Random Nature Connection – Do Animals Plan Ahead?
2nd Friday after Winter Solstice This essay on whether animals plan ahead is the second of my weekly #RandomNatureConnection posts. Read more about this meme here and consider joining us if you love nature, philosophical debate, and blog about it.…
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Random Nature Connection
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At the Winter Solstice 2014 I began a blog meme I called “Random Nature Connection”. It never took off and no one participated, but I still keep this page in case someone stumbles by and wants to join me. Here …
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Fiction influenced by Nature
At first glance it might be hard to imagine how my fiction could be influenced by nature. There are three things that make it so. Maybe there’s more than three, but these are the ones that stand out for me.…
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Random Nature Connection – Ozark Spring Water
Dripping Faucet Nature’s Water Water is such an integral part of nature, but we don’t often recognize it as such when it comes from a faucet. All water originates from nature, even water from the tap in a city.…
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An Ode to Nature
I don’t often get in the mood to write poetry, but this time of year it sometimes happens. Not sure what it is, perhaps the approach of mid-winter, perhaps the shifted angles of light.…
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Gone to Ground
‘Gone to ground’ usually means someone has gone into hiding. The phrase originally referred to a fox going into his hiding hole when he was being chased during a hunt. From this perspective, it seems more like seeking the safety …
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Wild & Rugged Newton County | FlexMLS: 148732 & 148800
Yesterday I went out with my daughter (broker/agent Gabrielle Hill) and friend (agent Rebekah Simonton) to see a beautiful, wild & rugged Newton County (Arkansas) property they’d recently listed with our agency Montgomery Whiteley Realty. The photos below are from …
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Earthworm Trails – Mystery Solved!
Have you ever seen soft mud or sand criss-crossed with lines? I’ve always been told that these lines are earthworm trails. But I’ve never actually seen an earthworm in those places, so I took that little nature mystery solution …
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Kingston, Arkansas Equestrian Dream Property | MLS: 147962
Would you like to live in a small town area, where there’s beauty everywhere you look? Madison county, Arkansas offers such an opportunity. Kingston, Arkansas specifically is my favorite small town. That’s why I chose here when I ran for …
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Madison county, Arkansas
Hi there! I’m Roxann Riedel. If you’ve been following my adventures lately, you’ll know I recently became licensed as a real estate agent with Montgomery Whiteley Realty. I’m currently seeking properties to list in Madison county, Arkansas. Want to …
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My Growth as an Artist
My first painting was in summer of 2018 while I was visiting my husband who was working in Qatar at the time. I didn’t have many art supplies on hand – only the first set of paints I’d ever made …
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The Land Inspires
There was a time when I thought it was only this particular place I call Wild Ozark that held such importance in my life. While I do truly love this place I’m planted, over the years, through travel and difficult …
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Ephemeral Anticipation
Around this time of year, when the grass starts to green up here and there, it stirs me to watch for the short-lived, earliest spring flowers like bloodroot. It’s the annual ‘ephemeral anticipation’ time. The vernal witch hazel is just …
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Painting on a Rainy Day
The weather outside is unsuitable for doing much else, but it’s perfectly right for painting on a rainy day. I’ve also been making paints for my 2024 Soul of the Ozarks watercolor collection. But that involves little more than waiting …
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Brahman Mama #905 | Cow Art
Today is Wednesday (Jan 17, 2024) and there’s still snow on the ground outside from last week’s arctic blast. The horses and cat are fed, husband and myself already had breakfast, and the hot water lines are still frozen, along …
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Classical Art that I Love
I’ve found more classical art that I adore. You know, I took an art appreciation class back when I was in college and I didn’t get the exposure I thought I might to the kinds of art I really love. …