by Paula Peeters | May 12, 2020 | Books, Nature journaling
We’re all a bit tired after packing and sending all of those books! So how are you going in this strange time of COVID-19? Feeling overwhelmed, or embracing a slow-down? Missing friends and family, but perhaps also discovering new ways to connect? Out of work...
by Paula Peeters | May 6, 2020 | Beechmont Nature Journal
A family of yellow-tailed black-cockatoos have been a steady presence over the last few weeks. Mum, dad and a baby, it seems. The baby is often whining – in its loud, creaky way – for something. Is it food, is it just attention, who knows? We see them...
by Paula Peeters | Apr 2, 2020 | Books, Colouring books, Free downloads and printables, Wildlife illustration
Back in 2018 I spent some winter weeks exploring the habitat of the Southern Bell Frog in southern NSW. Black box and River Red Gum wetlands. Tangles of lignum swamp, rice paddies and irrigation channels. I tried to see the landscape from a frog’s eye view. Many...
by Paula Peeters | Mar 27, 2020 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Nature journaling
Chooks are irrepressible, despite the uncertainty of their lives. They give me inspiration. Here’s a nature journal spread of our backyard flock that I completed last night. In case you’re interested in doing some nature journaling yourself, here are the...
by Paula Peeters | Mar 22, 2020 | Nature journaling
The earth seems to be shifting under our feet. Nothing seems certain, and it’s easy to let our anxieties and fears grow. That is, if we focus on human affairs only. Because out there, in nature, the world is going on. Lives are born and lives end. Trees that are...
