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...
2023, 06 June Readers’ Issue
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
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...
Camp & Cabin Cookin’, June 2023
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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
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...
Study Guide Puzzles, June 2023
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My Careless Little Friends
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Photo © Jason Rich/Dreamstime.com. Exciting things are always happening to other people. They get to hold chickadees, touch grackles, make pets of fawns…the...
Our Epic Expedition to Elk County
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Bull elk in Elk County, Pennsylvania. “Those leaves look edible!” Nate exclaimed. A van load of us from Northumberland County were driving to Elk County on...
Covers, June 2023
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Oatmeal-Box Planetarium
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Cylindrical cardboard boxes, of the type at least one brand of oatmeal comes in, can be used for projecting beautiful images of star constellations on the...
Let’s Take a Hike, June 2023: Niagara Falls
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Niagara Falls. Photo © Renae Weaver.
Defying Gravity
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Photo © Dreamstime.com. This science experiment is interesting because it defies gravity. First get a funnel and a ping-pong ball. Then set the ball in the...
Spring Brings the Birds
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Ladder-backed Woodpecker. Photo © Josephine Dyck. Melodious notes herald the coming of spring at my home in western Texas. Doves, grackles, meadowlarks,...
Frolicking With A Fawn
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Magazine White-tailed deer fawn. Photo © Estella See. Summer zephyrs danced through the woods, telling me to come join their play. The tranquil morning sounds were...
