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Focus Illustrated, June 2023

Focus Illustrated, June 2023

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide I took this HDR panorama just after sundown at a field with a beautiful mixture of Indian paintbrushes and Texas Bluebonnets. I used six individual HDRs...

Favorite Focus, June 2023

Favorite Focus, June 2023

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Bald Eagle nest. Photo © Melody Burkholder. Scott's Oriole. Photo © Katherine Hawk. A clouded sulphur butterfly visits a prairie verbena. Photo © Matthew...

Inspiration in a Gerbera Daisy

Inspiration in a Gerbera Daisy

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Photo © Timothy Waldner. My sister is so sweet! She gave me a flower—one flower—but she had a special reason. In the summer, when I see a beautiful...

Making Good Compost

Making Good Compost

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Last month we looked at the limitations of poor quality compost, but don’t think for a minute that compost is something to be avoided. Composting is a...

Bootes

Bootes

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide M3. Photo © Reinhold Wittich/Dreamstime.com. Bootes lies nearly straight overhead on June evenings in the Northern Hemisphere. This constellation is...

The Life of a Cheetah

The Life of a Cheetah

View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Cheetah. Photo © Stu Porter/Dreamstime.com. Carefully Mother Cheetah hid her six cubs in a clump of withered savanna grass so no marauding lion or hyena...