by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, You Can Draw, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Lunar Eclipse, Meteors, Moon, Planets
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Lunar Eclipse. Photo © Morris Yoder January 3: Supermoon, the first of three for this year. January 3, 4: The Quadrantid Meteor Shower peaks. January 10: Jupiter will be at opposition. This will be its closest approach to...
by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Caption This
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Simply elegant. Photo © Steven Russell Smith. We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph of a Bronze Copper butterfly. This photo was taken in a field at Salt Fork State Park, Ohio. It might be the first record...
by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Acrostic, Birds, Crossword, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Insects & Arachnids, Mammals, Puzzles, True and False
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by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Camp & Cabin Cookin', Premium Edition
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by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Birds, Snow
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Dogwood Ridge. When Bethany and I looked out the window near 1:30 one morning and saw snow coming down, I thought it was time to take a photo. I don’t have a comparison photograph to show, but had this photo been...
by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2026 | 2026, 01 January, Astronomy, Birds, Blackbirds, Orioles, Meadowlarks, Favorite Focus, Nebulas
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Aldon Martin. Aurora Borealis. Photo © Nathaniel Yoder. Photo © Caleb Thorwart. Click to enlarge Red-winged Blackbird. Photo © Brenda Tschetter. Red-whiskered Bulbul. Photo © Samuel Ching. Click to enlarge Trifid...
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Carnivores, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Longspurs & Snow Buntings, Pictures and Poems, Ungulates
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Lion and cub. Artwork © Susie Klassen. Bald Eagle with fish. Artwork © Adrian Good. White-tailed buck in snow. Artwork © Colton Livengood. We’ll Face Life Together It’s snowing, it’s snowing! I wish I could renderHow...
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Hares, Rabbits, & Pikas, Optical Phenomena, Trees
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Snowbow over Germany Valley, WV. Photo © Kervin Good. Frost on Japanese maple leaves. Photo © Ruth Anna Martin. Snowshoe hare. Photo © Josiah Andring.
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Wrens, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Articles & Stories, Birds, Comets
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet 24P/Schaumasse ~Magnitude 8At 8th magnitude, this comet will be a binocular or telescope target. Magnitude 6 is the brightness of the dimmest stars we see without optical aid. The North Star is magnitude 2. The smaller...
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Acrostic, Crossword, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Plants & Fungi, True and False
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by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Camp & Cabin Cookin'
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by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Favorite Focus, Grasshoppers and Katydids, Mantises, Ungulates
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Praying mantis with grasshopper prey. Photo © Lynelle Friesen. White-tailed buck. Photo © Mark McDonald. American bullfrogs. Photo © Austin Lehman.
by Kevin Shank | Dec 1, 2025 | 2025, 12 December, Bees, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Focus Illustrated
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Honeybee. Photo © Wilford Martin. Eastern tiger swallowtail, black morph. Photo © Jesse Weaver. These photos illustrate the September 2025 lesson, “Zooming to New Heights,” using a telephoto lens to photograph insects. The...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Camp & Cabin Cookin'
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by Kevin Shank | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Caption This, Herons, Egrets, & Bitterns
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive “Scratch a little higher…” Photo © Rudmer Zwerver|Dreamstime.com. We invite you to submit your caption for these Gray Herons fighting. The photograph will be used on the back of the March issue, along with...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Hares, Rabbits, & Pikas, Mammals, Pictures and Poems, Ungulates, Waterfowl - Geese, Swans, Ducks, Loons, Grebes
Click to enlarge Lora Zimmerman, 13 Loren Hostetler Jeff Troyer, 13 David Root, 13 Christopher Faus, 8 Nathan Stoltzfus, 6 The Night of the Aurora ‘Twas the night of the aurora,And all through the land,The people were watchingWith anticipation grand. Couldn’t tell...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 4, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Astronomy, Comets, Creation Close-ups
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet 2025 A6 (Lemmon). Photo © Jeremy Beachy. STORY TIME: Those of you who were subscribed to the premium edition for the October issue know we ran a page about two comets coming through, Comet Lemmon and Comet ATLAS. That...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 3, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Comets, In Our Skies
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet Lemmon as photographed on October 2. Photo © Adrian and Kevin Shank. Two comets in our skies are worth keeping tabs on. The best one is expected to be C/2025 A6 (Lemmon). It is predicted to be brightest October 31 or...
by Kevin Shank | Nov 3, 2025 | 2025, 11 November, Crustaceans & Mollusks, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2025 | 2024, 10 October, 2025, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Comets, Premium Edition, The Photo Focus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet Lemmon as photographed on October 2. Photo © Adrian and Kevin Shank. Comet Lemmon and Comet ATLAS are in the skies right now. With Comet Lemmon’s prediction for possibly seeing a tail without any optical aid in late...
by Kevin Shank | Oct 2, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Comets, Premium Edition
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Two comets are coming through in October that you may want to keep an eye (telescope) on. Predictions of comet brightness are always hard, and reality may be brighter or less bright than predictions. The limiting magnitude...
by Kevin Shank | Oct 2, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Camp & Cabin Cookin'
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by Virginia West and Kevin Shank | Oct 2, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Articles & Stories, Carnivores, Gamebirds, Premium Edition, Ungulates
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Nature hikes aren’t just about looking for flowers, mushrooms, nuts, and leaves. Some people are adept at finding where and what kind of wildlife has passed through the woods. My nephew has dogs that follow bears by sniffing...
by Kevin Shank | Oct 1, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Creation Close-ups, Ungulates, Wildflowers
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Purple wood sage. Photo © Melissa Booz. Miners Falls. Photo © Jabez Yoder. White-tailed buck in velvet. Photo © Jessica Tschetter.
by Kevin Shank | Oct 1, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Carnivores, Owls, Pictures and Poems, Rodents
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Eastern chipmunk with peanuts. Artwork © Elizabeth Boggs. Dingo. Artwork © Rosie Diller. Barred Owl. Artwork © Sarah Jones. Praise the Lord Oh, praise the Lord for deep blue skies, For rolling clouds, and eagle’s cries.Oh,...
by Kevin Shank | Oct 1, 2025 | 2025, 10 October, Woodpeckers, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2025 | 2025, 09 September, Carnivores
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by Kevin Shank | Sep 1, 2025 | 2025, 09 September, Let's Take a Hike, Ungulates
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Bull elk bedded in a snow-covered field. Photo © Mary Moore.
