January 31 and it is 55 degrees... it sure feels like this stuff is right around the corner.

I have taken some time over the last two winters to pick up hickory nuts and do some illustrations, here they are.  I know that these would...

Last year's turkey vulture return

Black and white warbler head with a coffee stain eye ring

I finally got my scanner working again hence the recent flurry of activity on here. I scanned in some of my favorite pages from my field ...

A handsome eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) on staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina). Colored pencil and acrylic, roughly 9"X6".

A look just at the terminal buds of four different native hickories: Clockwise from top left - shagbark hickory (C. ovata ), bitternut hi...

Pignut hickory ( Carya glabra ) here are two different winter twigs. You may notice that I originally labeled the top one as sweet pign...

Colored pencil

Above is the twig and leaf scars of blue ash ( Fraxinus quadrangulata )  Flowering dogwood ( Cornus florida )  showing leaf buds and...