New (to me) Blog December 22, 2011
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In looking about the internet for inspiration, I ran across a new blog. Here’s a link to the article that hooked me, but I hope you’ll take some time to explore more of Margaret Emerson’s excellent writing:
http://contemplativehiking.com/2010/01/12/6-signs-you’ve-become-disconnected-from-nature/
Dave’s Been at it Again January 17, 2011
Posted by Jennifer Schlick in blogs, photography, spring, wildflowers.3 comments
Check out Dave Bonta’s latest poems. Notice at the bottom of this one – Red Trillium, he has added navigation – so you can click back to Spring Beauties and forward to Painted Trillium.
http://www.vianegativa.us/2011/01/red-trillium/
I’m just so excited about this collaboration that I’m going back to my photos to see if I have more! (Poor Dave… I’ll work his poetry-writing brain cells to exhaustion!)
So Excited January 15, 2011
Posted by Jennifer Schlick in blogs, photography, spring, wildflowers.5 comments
Sometimes, all you have to do is ask.
I had this vision of a book – hand made by my friend Deb Eck -
containing my photos of wildflowers
punctuated with poems by poet Dave Bonta.
Prim pink pinstripes
beckon from the wet soil
beside the creek. But like
most beauties, they’re choosy
about their suitors,
unmoved except by just
the right bee visiting
in just the right order:
one day they hokey-
poke their stamens out;
the next, it’s the anther’s turn.
Petals close even for a cloud.
And when flowering’s done,
they do their best
to pass for grass.
Who wouldn’t be wary
with such a large
& edible heart?
And so it begins!…
Deb’s blog: http://dryadart.wordpress.com/
Dave’s blog: http://www.vianegativa.us/2011/01/spring-beauties/
Wow! November 30, 2010
Posted by Jennifer Schlick in blogs, photography.4 comments
I just added this link to my Blogroll.
http://allthingswildlife.blogspot.com/
Check it out!
Wordle November 16, 2010
Posted by Jennifer Schlick in blogs, web toys.5 comments
I just learned about Wordle. Look what I created:
You can type in your own words, or give the url of your blog and it will just create one for you from words it finds there. (I did the latter.)
Humbled October 4, 2010
Posted by Jennifer Schlick in blogs, nature.12 comments
Follow a butterfly. She will take you on quite a trail of discovery!
I am humbled to have been placed in the same sentence with names like Emerson, Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold and Mary Oliver – and Dave Bonta! And, I may steal this idea for an activity in some future workshop…
http://donaprofe.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/trails-of-discovery-and-learning/
(Thank you Mavis!)
Top Ten January 16, 2010
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After reading Seabrooke’s post about her most popular posts for 2009, I decided to check my WordPress stats, just for the heck of it…
Here are the top ten searches that drove people to my blog over the 365 days ending today (January 16, 2010). The number in parentheses is the number of searches.
- currant jelly (642)
- dragonfly eggs (523)
- dragonfly sex (206)
- poison sumac (181)
- edible wild berries (176)
- little snakes (160)
- wildflower identification (143)
- porcupine scat (122)
- what eats milkweed (115)
- musclewood (107)
Yes, Another One… January 11, 2010
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A weak moment…
A sleepless night…
And there you have it: another blog-based website:
Click –> Allegany Nature Pilgrimage
Hmm… maybe I should rename this: “A Passion for WordPress”.
What do you think?
Happy Valentine’s Day! February 14, 2009
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Hope you’ve had a love-filled day.
Well, as you are probably figuring out, I just can’t stop creating blogs. As I learn more about the platform, and I explore what others are doing with it, I just keep getting more and more ideas.
My latest one is geared at the folks who help us lead thousands of school children on field trips at the Center… It’s called “Animals of Western New York”. It might also be helpful to students and teachers in our region.
I plan to feature animals that our visitors are most likely to see when walking our trails in April-May-June – our heaviest fieldtrip season. I will try to include a few relevant facts (the ones kids seem to ask the most about), as well as some tips for walk leaders on activities and lessons they can do related to each animal.
Give it a look, and let me know what you think:
http://wnyanimals.wordpress.com
Thanks!
