I don't get to paint with oil very often, but I enjoy it when I can.  This is a red oak leaf painted a few falls ago.

  An old sketch of a blue jay feather

      The fall color is just about peak here and one of my favorite trees, white oak ( Quercus alba ), is displaying a wide variety...

  September was a busy month - my wife, son and I moved from Cleveland, Ohio to a small town in Central, IL and attended family weddin...

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...