by Kevin Shank | Mar 24, 2025 | 2025, 04 April, 2025, 05 May, Contest
Nature Nugget Contest All kinds of fun stories happen “out there” in the world of nature. And, sometimes a person doesn’t even have to go “out there.” Do you remember back to 2018 when Grandpa Markley encountered a bear in his cabin? He whacked it with a folding chair...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Birds, Caption This, Carnivores, Covers, Gamebirds
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Astronomy, Comets, Let's Take a Hike
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS). Photo © Yuri Beletsky Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) sets beside the dome of the 6.5-m Magellan Telescope at Carnegie’s Las Campanas Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. I captured this photo on...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Comets, From the Editor's Quill, Puzzles, Scavenger Hunt
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Birds, Creation Close-ups, Owls
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Birds, Butterflies, Moths & Skippers, Gamebirds, Hares, Rabbits, & Pikas, Pictures and Poems, Shorebirds, Thrushes, Wildflowers
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Gamebirds, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Caption This, Carnivores
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive “HELP! I got between a rock and a hard place.” Photo © Keith Szafranski/iStockPhoto.com. We invite you to submit your caption for this photograph. The photograph will be used on the back of the July issue, along with our...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, In Our Skies, Lunar Eclipse, Meteors, Moon, Star Clusters
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive March 7 Mars will be <2° S of the Moon. March 8 Mercury will be at its greatest eastern elongation, meaning you can see it just after sunset. March 14 there will be a total lunar eclipse. March 20 is the March Equinox....
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Birds, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Matching, Puzzles
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Comets, End of the Trail
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS. Photo © Kevin Shank. Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS photographed in Rockingham County, Virginia, January 15, 2025,in full daylight four minutes before sunset. Photo © Adrian Shank.
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Acrostic, Crossword, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Insects & Arachnids, Premium Edition, Puzzles, Study Guide, True and False
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by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Camp & Cabin Cookin'
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Marinade for Beef Roast —Submitted by Rachel Burkholder, Lowville, NY 3 lb beef roast 2 c water ½ c vinegar 1 T salt ½ T garlic powder ½ T onion powder 2 T Worcestershire sauce Combine brine ingredients. Soak roast up to a...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Snow, The Photo Focus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Kevin Shank. No sooner had the February magazine gone to the printer than we had snow again, probably that very night. One of my goals after last month’s lesson was to do more to vary the background. With fresh snow...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Articles & Stories, Birds, Chickadees & Titmice, Favorite Focus, Owls
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Click photos to enlarge. Tufted Titmouse, John Leck, 17, New Philadelphia, OH Great Gray Owl, Josiah Olson, Prince Albert, SK Great Gray Owl, Josiah Olson, Prince Albert, SK Black-capped Chickadee, Owen Weaver, Hardinsburg,...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | 2025, 03 March, Focus Illustrated
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Frozen soap bubble. Photo © Steven Russell Smith.In the December 2024 issue, there was a lesson on photographing freezing soap bubbles. My friend, Steven Smith, captured some gorgeous shots January 22. This one was taken at...
by Kevin Shank | Mar 1, 2025 | Pictures and Poems, You Can Draw Submissions
Here are the art & poetry submissions we received in the month of February. We hope you enjoy! Art Submissions Click on the thumbnails below to view the full-sized image. Eliot Hottman, 6, Dallas, TX Hannah Stodden, 9, Trilla, IL Lily Brown, 10, Denton, MD Emma...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Birds, Comets, Covers
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Comets, From the Editor's Quill, Scavenger Hunt
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Comets, Creation Close-ups, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Optical Phenomena, Plants & Fungi
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Mailbox, Optical Phenomena
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Birds, Owls, Pictures and Poems, Thrushes
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Birds, Pigeons & Doves, You Can Draw, You Can Draw Submissions
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Comets
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The size of this comet is approximately 2.7 x 2.5 miles (4.3 km x 4.1 km). Photo © CC BY-SA 4.0 The photo above is is a true-color photograph of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.The other photos were black and...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Astronomy, Comets, End of the Trail
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. This cliff is one kilometer high. Photo © ESA, Rosetta, NAVCAMProcessing: Stuart Arkinson
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Acrostic, Birds, Crossword, Fill-In-The-Blanks, Premium Edition, Puzzles, Snow, Study Guide, True and False
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by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Camp & Cabin Cookin'
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Baked Beans My mom really liked this recipe when she was young. Now all of our family enjoy it! —Submitted by Gabriel Chupp, Pavillion, WY 1 (40-oz) can great northern beans ½ lb bacon, fried, plus some drippings ½ c brown...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | 2025, 02 February, Articles & Stories, Premium Edition, Snow, The Photo Focus
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive For a long time now, several years actually, I’ve been wishing to try a new approach to photographing snowflakes. Just how I’ve wished to try this involves a setup that can aid other kinds of macro photography also, whether...
by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2025 | Pictures and Poems, You Can Draw Submissions
Here are the art & poetry submissions we received in the month of January. We hope you enjoy! Art Submissions Click on the thumbnails below to view the full-sized image. Morgan Brown, 11, Port Haywood, VA Elena Metzger, 9, Abbotsford, BC Morgan Brown, 11, Port...
by Kevin Shank | Jan 1, 2025 | Pictures and Poems, You Can Draw Submissions
Here are the art & poetry submissions we received in the month of December. We hope you enjoy! Art Submissions Click on the thumbnails below to view the full-sized image. Robert Fetsch, 10, Castro Valley, CA Emma Fetsch, 11, Castro Valley, CA Nicholas, 8,...
