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Posted on August 31, 2013 by Barb — 22 Comments

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival – Night Sky Edition

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This marks the last of the year as far as rotating through the nature study topics here on the Outdoor Hour Challenge. The night sky has been a thought-provoking study here in our home and one that is always enjoyed by lounging out on the deck after dark and just gazing up to notice the things going on up there at night. We spotted lots of interesting things to talk about even with friends, learning new things and sharing the information.

Our family’s night sky entries from this month’s study (in case you missed one):
Stargazing- Study Grid and Perseid Meteor Shower

Be inspired. Be encouraged. Get outdoors!

Night Sky Grid Study
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island shares their Telescope Viewing, Sunset and Night Sky at the Beach entry with all of you to read and enjoy. She has included a link to an iPad link called Stellarium which looks great!

Carla from Inside Outside Michiana has contributed their Night Skies! entry to this edition of the carnival. She shares their experiences and some tips too!

Cristy from Cristy’s Nature Journal writes about their night sky/moon study in her entry to the carnival: Night Sky Challenge for the Outdoor Hour Challenge. They even got to see the space station streak across the sky!

Jennifer from Royal Little Lambs submits her Antelope Island Camping entry which is jam packed with night sky study and lots of wildlife too! She captured a great night sky image for you to enjoy.

Nadene from Practical Pages has put together their South African entry for the carnival: Stars and Night Sky. She shares their experiences and some additional resources with carnival readers.

Carla from Inside Outside Michiana shares their night sky entry: ETHOS:Science Sneak Peak Space. What a lot of great things going on this month related to the sky and night sky too!

Big Dipper Study
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island writes about their Summer Constellation Study for this edition of the carnival. She shares another great iPad app (Star Walk) along with screenshots that help you get more out of your night sky study.

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Photo Credit: Mountain Man from The Schoolhouse on the Prairie

Moon and Craters Study
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island shares her entry: The Full Moon – August Study with carnival readers. She captured a beautiful image of the moon and its craters.

Barbara from The Schoolhouse on the Prairie has submitted their The Night Sky on the Prairie and Beyond entry for you to enjoy.

Last Days of Summer
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island shares their Night Sky and Last Days of Summer Study with the carnival. Alex shares some of her night sky plans and their progress in the Last Days of Summer activity.

Photo Credit: Robin from Academia

Potpourri
Robin from Academia shares their 10 Days At The Pond entry with you to enjoy. She records many of their pond finds in images and words…also some drawings too!

Shirley Ann from Under An English Sky has submitted their OHC Butterflies entry. She says,”There is just no way that we could not spend a little time learning about and appreciating these insects.” I totally agree! She shares some amazing images and then their journal entries. Be inspired!

Rebecca from Down a Rabbit Trail shares her first entry with the carnival: Tadpole Hunger Games. She says, “We just put in our own little backyard tadpole pond this past month and have been very surprised by all the life that’s finding it way there.” Enjoy.

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Photo Credit: Claire from Angelic Scalliwags

Claire from Angelic Scalliwags gives us an update on her One Year Pond Study: Week 23 had some new visitors to the pond and Week 25 is all about the Atmospheric Changes at the pond. These are some of the best nature study examples I have seen in awhile…each child experiencing the pond in their own way.

Eva Varga has submitted their South Slough Estuary entry to the carnival. She told me about this place years ago and I took my boys there to learn more about this interesting habitat. Read her entry for my information. She also would love for you to read her entry: National Moth Week-Our First Experience where she tells about their try at participating in this Citizen Science project.

Eva shares on last entry to the carnival for this edition: Apples, Pears, and Bears, Oh My! With a title like that, don’t you just want to click over and read? Don’t miss her entry.

If you need help getting started with the Outdoor Hour Challenge, you can read this page and find everything you need to know.
How to Use the Outdoor Hour Challenge 2013-2014.

Don’t forget to share your blog entries with the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival. All entries done in September are eligible for the next edition. The deadline for entries is 9/29/13 and you can send them directly to me: harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com or submit them at the blog carnival site (link on the sidebar of my blog).

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Posted on August 26, 2013 by Barb — Leave a comment

Beautiful Cattails – Continuing a Cattail Nature Study

Following a year-long study of cattails is another way to learn more about your local habitat. As you find and then observe your patch of cattails you learn just what a cattail needs to thrive. We have had two year-long studies of cattails in the past, each in a different part of town. One patch was within walking distance of our home and alongside a busy road in the ditch. The second patch was growing just to the edge of our local walking trail and we watched it every week noting the changes.

Cattail Close Up @handbookofnaturestudy.blogspot.com

This year I spied a new patch that is thriving next to a road I travel just about everyday in the car. There is a pullout nearby so I stopped and took a few photos and I recorded a quick sketch in my nature journal.

The great thing about a cattail study is that there are so many other topics that can come up as you slow down and observe your cattail patch.

Summer – Insects, frogs, algae, duckweed, birds (red-wing blackbirds), pollen
Autumn- Seeds
Winter- pond water, mud, cattail roots and stalks
Spring- cattail leaves, more spring ideas here: Cattail Study

This is the perfect study to go along with a year-long pond study if you want to combine the two together.
Seasonal Pond Study with printable notebook page

Whatever you do, keep your eyes out for your own cattails to get to know over the next year.
Seasonal Cattail Nature Study – free printable notebook page included

Posted on July 5, 2013 by Barb — Leave a comment

Outdoor Hour Challenge – Fish Grid Nature Study

Outdoor Hour Challenge
Fish Grid Study (July Newsletter Printable)

Use the Fish Grid Study printable to start your fish nature study off, choosing just one or two ideas to complete with your children. Use your own aquarium fish, fish at a pet store, or fish at a local pond to learn more up close and personal.

Printable Copywork Page

This printable can be printed and used to learn the characteristics of a fish. If you would rather copy the list into your nature journal and then have your child illustrate the page that would be great too!

Fish Copywork Notebook Page from Handbook of Nature Study

Getting Started Suggestion:
If you already own the Getting Started ebook, complete Outdoor Hour Challenge #1. Use your outdoor time this week to enjoy a spot in your area where there are fish…a lake, a stream, a pond. Enjoy your time outside with your child and follow their lead in exploring this place. Follow up with the notebook page from the ebook.

Posted on June 30, 2013 by Barb — 3 Comments

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival – Wildflower and Weed Edition

Wow! What a great month our family had with the weeds and wildflowers theme! We saw flowers everywhere we went and were able to add a few new ones to our wildflower lists. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries to the carnival…thanks so much for sharing your nature study activities with the Outdoor Hour Challenge family.

Our family’s wildflower and weed entries from this month’s study (in case you missed one):
1. Wildflower Nature Study – Getting Out And Enjoying The Weather
2. Our Oregon Coast Wildflower and Weed Grid
3. Milkweed Study – Start a Year Long Study

Be inspired. Be encouraged. Get outdoors!

Photo Credit: Heather from Blog She Wrote

Wildflower and Weed Grid Study
Shirley Ann from Under an English Sky shares their OHC-Queen Anne’s Lace entry for you to enjoy. Don’t miss their lovely nature journal entries!

Heather from Blog You Wrote has submitted two awesome wildflower themed entries: Wildflower Blooms: Art and Nature and then Adventures with Flowers: Pressing and Identifying. Awesome information and ideas for extending your wildflower nature study.

Alice from Redwoods Homeschool writes about Wildflowers in Our Yard. I really loved seeing the pretty wildflowers so prevalent in her area.

Rachel from United for Christ did an awesome job with their Rocky Mountain Wildflowers entry. She shares many of the gorgeous flowers they found, some they identified and some they need some help with.

Photo Credit: Michelle at Following Footprints

Michelle from Following Footprints did an awesome job in her entry: Wildlfowers and Weeds. Take a peek into their colorful wildflowers and enjoy the sights.

Alex from Life on a Canadian Island submits her Lupines: Wildflowers entry to the carnival. Enjoy the colorful images from PEI. She also sent in her Wildflower: Common Buttercups entry for you to check out…don’t miss the wonderful images.

Robin from Academia shares two entries in this edition of the carnival: Wild Flowers and Tadpoles. As usual she shares their fun nature study.

Jennifer from Royal Little Lambs shares their Utah Wildflower Pictures entry with you.Wow! They found a lot of colorful and pretty wildflowers to share with you. Thanks Jennifer!

Photo Credit: Shirley Ann from Under An English Sky

Weeds and Seeds
Shirley Ann from Under an English Sky submits their OHC – Grid Study for carnival readers. I included it in the weeds and seeds category because she has a wonderful image of their three weed seeds. Don’t miss reading her entry and viewing her simple nature board.

Photo credit: Eva Varga

Potpourri
Claire submits their Year Long Pond Study – Night Visit for this edition of the carnival. Her images and the progression of their on-going pond study are inspiring.

Eva submits her Surprise Cross Pollination Experiment entry for you to read. They had some petunias accidentally cross pollinate and you can see the results in her entry. This would be a great garden flower nature study activity.

Eva also has written up their Butterfly Bonanza – Lessons in Butterfly Identification, showing their outing with local naturalists to net and then identify butterflies. Great entry!

Photo Credit: Kris at On the Eighth Day

Kris from On The Eighth Day submits their The Campout Weekend entry for you to be inspired by. They had two campout nights in their backyard. Love it!

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Barb — 8 Comments

Our Oregon Coast Wildflower and Weed Grid

This is the Oregon Coast Edition of the Wildflower and Weed Grid Study! I had a fun-filled week of hiking and beach-combing in Oregon and we had our eyes out for as many wildflowers as we could possible find. It wasn’t hard because each trail had an abundance of wildflowers for us to enjoy.

I tried to capture as man of them as I could to share with you in this post.

Blue Oregon Iris – These are a frequent flower along the trail.

Sea pinks along the shore…blowing in the wind, casting cool shadows.

Our campsite was filled with clover and daisies. Imagine…daisies so plentiful they seem like weeds!

Cow parsnip lines the roads and pops up along the shore. Some of these plants are super tall and the flower heads are enormous.

Inside Out Flower was found in the shady spots and it is one of my favorites from this trip. I decided to include a special page in my nature journal for it (see below).

We found patches of lupine along the Humbug Mountain Trail. This trail was a new one for us and what a view! It was a lot of fun to adventure up and we look forward to taking this trail again.

The Monkey flower was amazing! There were areas along the moist gully that just screamed yellow from this pretty flower.

A familiar sight along any redwood forest trail this time of year is the rhododendron….this one was a pale pink. This was spotted along the Shrader Old Growth Trail. This is a fun hike out of Gold Beach and worth the long dusty dirt road to get there. We had the trail all to ourselves on this morning. There is nothing like being out in the wilderness hiking along hearing the birds and nothing else.

One day we visited Crissey Field State Park which has an awesome visitor’s center and several trails. The beach there is wide and open which invites you to walk a long way next to the shore. This Sea Verbena was growing along the sandy dunes. My boys were entranced by all the driftwood and they spent about an hour just hunting among the piles for interesting shapes. Boys.

These are pretty little Seaside daisies….another one I really like and will be adding to my nature journal. I think the delicate fringe-like petals are the best part of this flower.

Smith’s Fairybells…another shade loving plant we saw a lot of as we hiked.

It always makes me happy to see where flowers naturally grow to make pretty color combinations. These sweet peas and daisies were found right along the edge of the bank in our campground.

Seaside Tansy…the interesting part of this plant are the fern-like leaves. They also grow right along the dry cliffside going down to the beaches.

This Tiger Lily was actually in Del Norte County, California. The drive up Hwy 101 takes you through Redwoods National Park where the Tiger Lilies are blooming profusely along the road. I had to stop and capture one for you! Gorgeous!

We found Wild Bleeding Hearts too! We have these planted in our garden here at home but it was fun to see them growing in their natural environment.

Aren’t these lovely? Western Azaleas grow in Harris Beach State Park and we always look forward to seeing their happy blossoms.

We saw many Wild Cucumbers blooming but this one had its fruit already formed. Isn’t it interesting? It is in the gourd family and you can see why when you see the fruits.

Here are the flowers from the Wild Cucumber.

I know this is a non-native invasive plant but we saw it on many of the trails. Wild Radish comes in a variety of colors…white, soft pink, light lavender.

This is my first unidentified wildflower…if anyone knows what it is you can leave me a comment.
EDIT: I think this is Yellow Parentucellia...figwort family. Range: Western Washington to NW California.

This is my second unidentified wildflower…yellow ones stump me for some reason.

This we saw in a pond at Lagoon Creek which is technically in California. Yellow Pond Lilies were blooming all over the pond.

So there you have all the interesting images that I could pull from my camera. We did see quite a few more and if you look closely at my Wildflower Grid nature journal page you will see them listed.

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Barb — 3 Comments

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival: Garden Flower Edition

Garden flowers are some of my favorite nature study subjects of all time. Each flower is so unique and wonderful. I hope that your family was able to get outside this month and at least observe some flowers or crop plants up close. I invite you to read what some of the other Outdoor Hour Challenge families have done this month.

Our family’s garden flowers and crop plant entries from this month’s study (in case you missed one):

Garden Flowers Close to Home
Garden Flowers Focus- Using Notebook Pages
Petunia Study Using the Handbook of Nature Study

Be inspired. Be encouraged. Get outdoors!

Photo credit: Alex from Life on a Canadian Island

Garden Flower Grid Study
Eva shares Grandma’s Flower Gardening Tips with this edition of the carnival. These are some great tips…you must read!

Angie from Petra School submits their garden entry: The Gardens at Mil Mar. She has some beautiful Pacific Northwest flowers like rhododendrons and azaleas. Pop over and see how she grows her tomatoes!

Angie from Petra School also would like to share some of their garden updates: Schooling in Summer. Scroll down and see how those tomatoes are growing.

Alex from Life on a Canadian Island shares their In Our Garden – Garden Flowers Nature Study with you. She has some gorgeous images of their early spring flowers and some ideas for additional flower resouces.

Tricia from Hodgepodge submits her Garden Flower Study in Phone Photos entry for you view and enjoy. She shares how their family has noticed so many garden flowers and changes as the month went by.
Focus on Garden Flowers
Jennifer from Royal Little Lambs has shared her Garden Nature Study entry with the carnival. She shows how they have visited the flower nursery, prepared their garden, and planted many, many things to enjoy in the months to come.

Cristy from Cristy’s Nature Journal has put together a fabulous entry: Planting Sunflowers and Watching Them Grow. She shares in words and images how their sunflowers have progressed towards their eventual Sunflower House! I love it!

Barbara and her family completed a study of their garden strawberries using the Handbook of Nature Study. Please click over to read her entry Learning about Strawberries on her blog, The Schoolhouse on the Prairie.

Photo Credit: Alex from Life on a Canadian Island

Potpourri
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island has submitted their Yellow Spotted Salamanders, One Frog and Many Eggs at Dead Man’s Pond. This is a follow up entry from last months reptiles and amphibians study. What a fascinating look at their salamanders!

Diana from Homeschool Review has put together their Outdoor Hour Challenge-Reptile and Amphibian entry for you to enjoy. They are following up on last month’s theme now that their weather has warmed up.

Claire from Angelicscalliwags pops into this edition of the carnival with her entry: Nature Study-Our One Year Pond Study. I invite you to click over and view her wonderful images and be inspired to start your own pond study.

Shirley Ann from Under an English Sky shares their OHC-Wildflowers entry with the carnival. Her family has done an excellent job collecting, identifying, and recording their lovely English wildflowers. I love this time of year!

Don’t forget to share your blog entries with the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival. All entries done in June are eligible for the next edition. The deadline for entries is 6/29/13.

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Posted on April 30, 2013 by Barb — 3 Comments

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival – Reptile and Amphibian Edition

What a fantastic month of surprise reptiles and amphibians! I am always amazed at what comes our way to study and after reading the entries from all the participants I know you have the same sort of experience. We go out looking for reptiles and amphibians and there they are! If your family wants to save these challenges for later in the season, please feel free to share your entries with the carnival and I will put them in the Potpourri section.

Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing your experiences!

Our family’s reptile and amphibian entries from this month’s study (in case you missed one):

Using the Reptile and Amphibian Grid Study – Western fence lizard
Frog Pond Study Plus a Rattlesnake Friend – with a video of our rattlesnake
Focusing on Reptile and Amphibian Nature Study – our two snakes
Sierra Newts on the Trail

Be inspired. Be encouraged. Get outdoors!

Photo Credit: Angie from Petra School

Reptile and Amphibian Grid Nature Study
Alex from Life on a Canadian Island shares their field trip: Reptiles and Amphibian Study at the Pet Store. Her gorgeous images will inspire you to take a trip to your local pet shop. Alex also shares the Reptiles and Amphibians Nature Study-Books and Videos entry with all of you.

Angie from Petra School has written an awesome entry for you: Benefits of Observational Nature Study. She shares their on-going long-term nature study of frogs and their habitats. This is such a great example showing how just a few minutes a week over the long run will reap many rewards.

Barbara from The Schoolhouse on the Prairie captured their outdoor time in a lovely entry: But Not the Reptiles and Amphibians. She shows the many things they encountered and finally their skink.

Carol from Journey and Destination (Australia) has submitted her entry: April Nature Study-Reptiles, Rodents, and Randoms. You mush click over and see the very awesome Lace Monitor!

Carla from Inside Outside Michiana did a wonderful job of sharing their: Amphibian Grid Study with the carnival.

Alice from Redwoods Homeschool shares her two entries with the carnival Salamander Find! and Salamanders.

Photo Credit: Kris from On The 8th Day

Frog Study
Shirley Anne from Under An English Sky submits her Outdoor Hour Challenge-Toads entry to this edition of the carnival. Magnificent images!

Nadene at Practical Pages shares their Tiny Frogs entry with the carnival. She shares the smallest frogs I have ever seen….don’t miss it!

Kris from On The 8th Day submits her entry: A Surprise Nature Discovery. They found a pool of water and then a frog and some eggs!

Kim from A Child’s Garden has written up their Frog Hunting in Connecticut-Our Ten Frog Species entry for you to enjoy.

Lisa from Pilgrims at Tinker Creek shares their Creek Walk and a really big toad!

Carla from Inside Outside Michiana submits their entry: Frogs! They look like they enjoyed their study and learning all about their local frogs.

Photo Credit: Alex – Life on a Canadian Island

Focus on Reptiles and Amphibians

Cristy from Cristy Nature Journal has submitted her OHC Reptiles entry for this edition of the carnival. She shares a very tiny turtle they found in their backyard. She also would like to share her entry: Plants that Eat Animals.

Alex from Life on a Canadian Island has written and submitted her entry: Dead Man’s Pond – Looking for Amphibians. She shares their excellent pre-study and then their pond adventure along with some additional resources for you.

Rachel from Happily Occupied Homebodies shares her wonderful entry: Turtles and Salamanders and Frogs! She describes with words and images their hunt for salamanders in the woods. She also shares her baby finches in this entry: Spring is Here and So Are The Baby Birds.

Photo Credit: Shirley Ann from Under an English Sky

Seasonal Pond Study
Shirley Ann from Under an English Sky has put together a fabulous entry with their pond study: Pond Life and a Tadpole Aquarium. I really enjoyed reading about their pond study and their nature journal pages are not to be missed.

Orange Jelly Fungi from The Diary of an Owl

Potpourri
Heidi from Home Schoolroom has gathered their Spring Nature Study and Easter Celebration into one entry for you. I love her moss observations.

Diana from Homeschool Review shares their Slate Nature Study with the carnival. She not only shares their abundant slate but also some moss and lichen too.

Sweetie from The Diary of an Owl has submitted their Orange Jelly Fungi entry for you to enjoy. I love seeing what our younger participants are learning as they spend time outdoors.

Don’t forget to share your blog entries with the Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival. All entries done in May are eligible for the next edition. The deadline for entries is 5/30/13 and you can send them directly to me: harmonyfinearts@yahoo.com.

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Barb — 3 Comments

Don’t Make the Mistake in Thinking You Aren’t Interested in Moss or Lichen

Have you started off this month thinking that you can’t face a month long study of mushrooms, moss, and lichen? Did you print the newsletter and look at the grids and wonder how your could possibly find anything interesting to occupy you for this month’s grid study? I don’t think you are alone…in fact, a number of years ago I might have felt the same way too.

Honestly, this month and next month are the months that I have sort of dreaded preparing for the monthly challenges. Both this month’s topic and next month’s topic of reptiles and amphibians are not easy ones for many of us girl types.

But, I would like to encourage you with yesterday’s family walk to the river where we found an abundance of moss and lichen to get our interest and our powers of observation going. Once we started looking for moss and lichen, we saw it everywhere!

The shapes, patterns, colors, and textures were all so different and interesting. There was moss on rocks and tree bark and lichen on riches in varying colors. It made our hike to the river and back a delight.

My best advice is to give it a try by printing out the Mushroom, Lichen, and Moss Grid and bookmark. Share it with your children and then follow along each Friday with the suggested study, preparation, and then activities. I almost guarantee that you will learn something interesting.

Who knows? You may even end up enjoying this month’s study and become fascinated with this topic like I have over the years.

Here is a list of the twelve topics that we are covering this year on the Handbook of Nature Study.

September 2012 Insects
October 2012 Trees
November 2012 Mammals
December 2012 Weather
January 2013 – Rocks and Minerals
February 2013 – Birds (Great Backyard Bird Count)
March 2013 – Moss-Lichen-Mushrooms
April 2013 – Reptiles-Amphibians
May 2013 – Garden Flowers-Crops
June 2013 – Wildflowers-Weeds
July 2013 – Fish (Ponds)
August 2013 – The Sky and Stars

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Barb — 6 Comments

Handbook of Nature Study Newsletter – Weather

December 2012 – Weather and Climate
We have reached the last newsletter of 2012 and the fourth topic in our series of nature study topics from the Handbook of Nature Study. (See bottom of this post for the proposed plan of nature study for 2013.) Hopefully you have all been able to participate at least once a month and this month everyone can complete a weather study and some of the fun additional activities that will be planned for each Friday.

Contents of this edition of the newsletter include:

Nature study and high school biology – 2 articles (one is mine and one is from a veteran OHC participant)
Article showing how a family in the UK overcomes weather related stumbling blocks to nature study
2 articles contributed by OHC family members showing how a study of the weather relates to real life
December Study Grid and Bookmark – Weather Themed
Weather Themed Notebook Page
Nature Table ideas for a weather theme
Show and Tell, Favorite Links, Winter Bundle Special Offer
Thank You Offer for the More Nature Study Bundle

I have attached the newsletter download link to the bottom of my blog feed so if you are a subscriber you will receive the link to the latest newsletter at the bottom of every post for the month of December. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can still subscribe and receive the newsletter link in the next post that comes to your email box. You can subscribe to my blog by filling in your email address in the subscription box on my sidebar.

Note: You can download your newsletter from the link in two ways:

If your link is clickable, right click the link and then “save link as” to save the file on your computer.
If the link is not clickable, cut and paste the link to your browser, open, and then save your newsletter to your computer.

For those that are curious, I will post the proposed list of topics by month so you can plan ahead and anticipate what is in store for the coming months. Of course, this is my plan but it is subject to change…hopefully things will proceed as planned but you never know.

January 2013 – Rocks and Minerals
February 2013 – Birds (Great Backyard Bird Count)
March 2013 – Moss-Lichen-Mushrooms
April 2013 – Reptiles-Amphibians
May 2013 – Garden Flowers-Crops
June 2013 – Wildflowers-Weeds
July 2013 – Fish (Ponds)
August 2013 – The Sky and Stars

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Beautiful Cattails – Continuing a Cattail Nature Study

Outdoor Hour Challenge – Fish Grid Nature Study

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival – Wildflower and Weed Edition

Our Oregon Coast Wildflower and Weed Grid

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival: Garden Flower Edition

Outdoor Hour Challenge Blog Carnival – Reptile and Amphibian Edition

Don’t Make the Mistake in Thinking You Aren’t Interested in Moss or Lichen

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