Stars shine brilliantly in the heavens. Beneath them, five children lie huddled on the lawn under blankets. They gaze excitedly up at the many sparkling specks scattered over the great black dome of...
2021
A Day With Vixen
The choir of crickets and voices of the katydids receded to a soft peeping and died away. The dark shadows lightened as the sun slowly spread its first rays across the sky. In the woods, the birds...
You Can Draw a Bighorn Sheep, painting lesson
Submissions from You Can Draw a Canada Goose from June and a pipevine swallowtail from July.
Life in a Pond
The first rays of sun break through the darkness, and the gray light of dawn appears. It does not last long, though, for as the sun rises higher, its light gains strength. The misty gray of dawn...
Mailbox, November 2021: Space-X Capsule
Creation Close-ups, November 2021: Pipevine Swallowtail
Christmas Tree Worms
Under a flaming sky, crimson and azure blended to form the endless undulations of the Coral Sea. As the dawn grew brighter, the crimson rippled into scarlet, and the scarlet faded into orange....
Wondernose: What animal will use its horns while eating in much the same way we use a table fork?
Eland. Photo © NDP/Dreamstime.com. Picture this, Wondernose—a large mammal, nearly 6 feet (2 m) tall at the shoulders and 10 feet (3 m) long, wearing a pair of long spiral horns. The animal is a...
Pictures & Poems, November 2021
Invisibles, November 2021
From the Editor’s Quill, November 2021: Creative Writing Contest results
Our long-awaited Creative Writing contest has arrived. We have chosen several winners, but as I write this, not all winners have even been chosen.What we have decided to do with the results from...
Scavenger Hunt, November 2021
Said the Raven…
Let’s Take a Hike: Autumn Stream
Peaceful autumn brook. Photo © Steven Russell Smith