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Canis Major

Canis Major

Mar 1, 2023

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Canis Major, the Great Dog, lies in the southern sky just southeast of Orion. Like Orion, many of the stars that make up Canis Major are bright. The...

A Garden of Herbs

A Garden of Herbs

Mar 1, 2023

View the March 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Photo © Shaiith/Dreamstime.com. Herbs are a category of plants grown mostly for flavor or medicinal value. They are often not on the shortlist for a...

Capture the Splash

Capture the Splash

Mar 1, 2023

Photographing Water Splashes with Minimal Equipment View the March 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Water droplets. Photo © Anna Boggs. Utterly bored, I stared out at the blinding snow until my eyes...

Taurus

Taurus

Feb 1, 2023

View the February 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide The Pleiades. Photo © Shaphan Shank. Taurus, the Bull, is a distinctive constellation that lies just northwest of Orion, high in the evening sky in...

Other Garden-Friendly Livestock

Other Garden-Friendly Livestock

Feb 1, 2023

View the February 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide While the chickens we wrote about last month are by far the most common, they are not the only garden-friendly animals available for our use. This...

This Morning was the “Tomorrow”

This Morning was the “Tomorrow”

Feb 1, 2023

View the February 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide MacGillivray's Warbler. Photo © Kevin Shank. You may remember “The Photo Focus” in January ended with the sentence, “Plus, there is tomorrow.” Well,...

Triangulum and Aries

Triangulum and Aries

Jan 1, 2023

View the January Nature Friend Study Guide Triangulum and Aries are a pair of small constellations that lie south of Andromeda, between the Great Square of Pegasus and the Pleiades. Triangulum, the...