After the shopping,
See more Skywatch here. 
Come along in Red Canoe as she explores the quiet backwater of Ohio's State Parks and the scenic streams and rivers of the Midwest. Discover the beauty hidden beyond the water's edge, quietly waiting, past access points, often only inches deep!
Come browse my photography site, Nature Remains: nothing but a photograph, for full-page slide shows of my favorite images and opportunities to purchase them.
In Spring of 2008, I began the study of 2 vernal pools on my property as part of the Ohio Vernal Pool Partnership monitoring program.
My 2008 journal includes the first photos and findings, as I studied this fascinating wetland area just a few steps beyond my backdoor...
2009 photos and findings,
2010,... again!
Now, 4 years later, another season is just days away!
Travel beyond the Midwest has taken me to some beautiful places. Usually off the beaten track, these places are WILD!
Acadia National Park
New River Nature Festival
Olympic National Park
Pictured Rocks and the UP
Voyageurs National Park
(click on the text above each photo for a quick get-away)
A regularly appearing feature, "Have you seen..." takes a closer, more patient look at things usually not seen in a flattering light.
Take a look!
Each spring, as winter lessens its grip and days warm with the first fragrant breezes of a new season, we collect sap from our Sugar Maples and produce just enough syrup for ourselves for the coming year.
The progress of this year's backyard endeavor is illustrated here.
Summer 2008, the tiny jewel of the avian world, a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, nested just feet from my front door. Pictures of her nest and the changing lives within are collected in this journal.
From life the size of a pea....
Cats that come to stay
(click on the text above each photo for stories in these collections)
39 comments:
Hi!
wish you a merry xmas and a happy new year. See you a round.
Merry Christmas, Nina.
Merry Christmas, Nina.
Merry Christmas, Nina. Thank you for the gifts of your beautiful prose and photography that we've enjoyed this past year.
Isn't holly just beautiful! Thank you, Nina.
I wish you great joy and peace today.
Love, Bobbie
Merry Christmas Nina.
Merry Christmas, Nina!
Merry Christmas, Nina, and I'm with Pat, thanks for all the peaceful moments you've given all of us this year.
...and may we find ourselves connected to nature while we enjoy
everything else in our lives. Red-berried holly for the holidays-beautiful, Nina. Thank you for your work on this site.
Have a merry Christmas, Nina! (-:
Here's wishing you a Wonderful Christmas ,filled with peace and joy.I love the holly picturs,so fitting for Christmas.
Blessings,Ruth
Hi Nina,
¡¡¡Feliz Navidad!!!
Merry Christmas!!!
Hugs from Peru,
Mel
Happy Holidays!
And the same to you! Merry Christmas!
Hi Nina-
Merry Christmas. I hope it is sunny in SW Ohio as it is here in C-bus.
Tom
Merry Christmas from me too!
Nice pictures!
Oh yes!! Well said! That holly is gorgeous! Merry Christmas!
Beautiful flowers.
the holly is beautiful, as is the sky behind it. merry christmas!
Thanks for the beautiful view through the holly!
It's a time of family and friends, and being thankful and grateful and humbled most of all.
Merry Christmas Nina! Look forward to meeting you in a few months in W.V. Hope Santa was good to you.
Thanks for the hollly and the wishes Nina.
Although we are in the midst of a dreadful hot spell, at our moutain garden the girls foun some holly with a couple of red berries and one with just one yellow one. They brought them to the farm to deck the halls...
Thanks for the holly and the beautiful wishes.
Merry Christmas to you too
I love holly, Nina.. Great Pictures.
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
Hugs,
Betsy
Beautiful contrast in the red berries and blue sky
I hope you had a Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas, Nina! I hope you're having a wonderful holiday weekend.
I feel like this sentiment was meant for me - thank you!! Hope your holiday was wonderful!
That's lovely holly. I love the bright red berries. I invite you to come see my Coastal BC snow warning. -- Margy
The holly is just beautiful! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year!
How very beautiful.
Thank you, Nina. I'm in total agreement. Let's be outdoors.
Merry Christmas Nina
Thank you for all your wonderful photos and pros through the year. I look forward to a very Happy and Prosperous New Year for you and yours.
Nina, I hope you and your family had a great Christmas day, I like the pictures.
And merry Christmas to you as well.
Beautiful holly
Such wonderfully christmassy images of holly. Here's another nature 'freak' whishing you a lovely, natural, sunny and experimental new year.
Happy Holidays, Nina. This is certainly some crazy weather we're having for late December in southern Ohio. We enjoyed some time sitting out on the deck soaking up the sun this afternoon - it almost got up to 80 degrees! I imagine you are experiencing similar weather.
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