View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Cheeseburger Soup —Submitted by Owen Weaver 1½ c water 2 c potatoes, peeled and cubed 2 sm. carrots, grated 1 sm. onion, chopped ¼ c green pepper, chopped...
2024, 12 December
You Can Draw a White-breasted Nuthatch
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive It’s not every day that your drawing subject is alive and feeding right outside your window. Nuthatches easily travel either up or down trees as they...
Favorite Focus, December 2024
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Frosty Bubbles
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Cross-polarization was used to creatively illuminate this frosty bubble. Photo © Don Komarechka. The clear globe with frost patterns caught my eye. I had...
They Offered unto Him…Gold and Frankincense
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive The gold that the wise men from the East brought to Baby Jesus—do you suppose it was in the form of coins…nuggets…or some other form? Whatever form it was...
Study Guide Puzzles, December 2024
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End of the Trail, December 2024: Comets
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All the Way to Texas
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Diamond ring. Photo © Andrew Stine. “Shall we go to Texas to see the eclipse?” I asked the family. “It’s four minutes and twenty seconds of totality...
Christmas Decorations That Keep Giving
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Photo © Dana Atkinson. Grandma got more than she bargained for when she brought in some greenery for Christmas. You might get some surprises too if you...
My Mountaintop Aurora Adventure
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Northern lights. Photo © Cheryl Shank. Twigs snapped and leaves crunched as my three comrades and I plodded up the wooded mountainside in southwestern...
Cassiopeia
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Cassiopeia lies high in the northern sky in December. Like Cepheus, our target constellation last month, Cassiopeia is a circumpolar constellation. It...
You Can Draw an American Redstart Submissions
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Pictures & Poems, December 2024
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Mailbox, December 2024
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Wondernose: What tree is among the world’s oldest living things?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Come with me to the Rocky Mountains of the southwestern United States. Climb with me to a height of 8,000 feet (2400 m). Here we come upon a gnarled,...