by KLR | Jan 18, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•18•2021Joshua Tree National Park Dear Nature,Dr. Seuss wrote: Think and wonder. Wonder and think. This magical place called Joshua Tree is a wonder indeed, that makes me think about what a wonder it is. The namesake Joshua trees are something out of a Dr. Seuss...
by KLR | Jan 11, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•11•2021Bald Eagle Soaring Dear Nature,Yesterday we watched as a bald eagle soared into sight, catching an updraft and lazily swirling upward in a slow, mesmerizing spiral. It struck a course for a man-made perch, a high-power utility tower. As it descended, legs and...
by KLR | Jan 9, 2023 | Bird Art, Inspiration, Sketches From Nature
There is a birding tradition that the first bird you see on New Year’s Day is your theme bird for the year. A chirp outside my bedroom window woke me up; I turned my head to look – perched boldly and confidently on the topmost branch of the lilac tree was a...
by KLR | Jan 4, 2023 | Postcards to Nature
1•4•2021Cinnamon in the Winter Dear Nature, Cinnamon is a warm spice, conjuring up comforting scents of apple pies baking in the oven-heated kitchen and spice-scented candles burning on the mantel. The common eider is a winter sea duck, the most ‘common’ duck we just...
by KLR | Dec 28, 2022 | Postcards to Nature
12.28.2020Fox Dear Nature,If I had to pick a favorite animal, Fox would be in the top five! I don’t see them very often, even thought they live around us on the farm. I guess that’s the way of the Fox; observing, unseen, from the edges. December seems to be a month...
by KLR | Dec 21, 2022 | Postcards to Nature
12.21.2020 TuckerWoods Farm – Winter Solstice Dear Nature,Today is the Winter Solstice, when we celebrate the return of the sun, little by little. Tonight we also witness a rare celestial event- a great conjunction of our solar system’s two largest planets,...
by KLR | Feb 16, 2021 | Postcards to Nature
Dear Nature, In 2020 my art world and my travel world came to a screeching halt due to the pandemic. All of my workshops, exhibitions and art fairs got canceled. I had two major road trips planned to continue my National Park quest – 14 parks in total. I had to...
by KLR | Jan 1, 2020 | Inspiration, Painting, Tales from TuckerWoods Farm
…don’t take any sh*t. I said goodbye to my beloved cat Emmylou yesterday, on the last day of 2019. Emmy was diagnosed with a very aggressive type of mouth cancer at the beginning of December. I had two other cats pass from the exact same cancer, so I knew we didn’t...
by KLR | Jan 14, 2019 | Drawing, Inspiration, My Travels
“So he sat down on the stone in the middle of the stream.” – A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends were pretty much my all-time favorite books as a child along with anything about a certain black horse, and a pony from...
by KLR | Jan 7, 2019 | Works-in-progress
Inspiration: the action or power of moving the intellect or emotions. An artist seeks inspiration for their work both consciously and unconsciously. We must nurture our creativity with our own particular muse. Obviously my muse is nature and all of her...
