Our family is in the process of moving back to the prairie of Illinois so I have been without my scanner and much of my drawing supplies ...

When the summer is dry and the rivers reach low levels it becomes all to clear how much garbage pollutes our rivers and streams; even the m...

This is a handsome little freshwater mussel called a deertoe ( Truncilla truncata ) they range in color from this aqua blue to green to...

Anyone who owns a “Flora of …” field guide has surely noticed that the Genus Carex can easily chew-up 50 plus pages of dichotomous key with...

Yesterday I found my first morel of 2012.  It was a tiny grey morel that measured less than 2cm tall.  Here is a sketch of one of the...

Cerulean warbler ( Setophaga cerulean ) is a small warbler that often forages and nests high in the forest canopy especially on the edg...

Two sketches from last April – this is about the stage we are at right now – still running 2-3 weeks early.   However, the weather has cool...

The sugar maples ( Acer saccharum ) are leafing out and the winter wrens are singing!  Colored pencil.

Two of my favorite spring images - leatherwood ( Dirca palustris ) in flower and a magnolia warbler!  Colored pencil.

Yesterday while spraying invasive lesser celandine ( Ranunculus ficaria ) I saw my first jack-in-the-pulpit ( Arisaema triphyllum ) breakin...