by Paula Peeters | May 6, 2020 | Beechmont Nature Journal
A family of yellow-tailed black-cockatoos have been a steady presence over the last few weeks. Mum, dad and a baby, it seems. The baby is often whining – in its loud, creaky way – for something. Is it food, is it just attention, who knows? We see them...
by Paula Peeters | Apr 2, 2020 | Books, Colouring books, Free downloads and printables, Wildlife illustration
Back in 2018 I spent some winter weeks exploring the habitat of the Southern Bell Frog in southern NSW. Black box and River Red Gum wetlands. Tangles of lignum swamp, rice paddies and irrigation channels. I tried to see the landscape from a frog’s eye view. Many...
by Paula Peeters | Mar 27, 2020 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Nature journaling
Chooks are irrepressible, despite the uncertainty of their lives. They give me inspiration. Here’s a nature journal spread of our backyard flock that I completed last night. In case you’re interested in doing some nature journaling yourself, here are the...
by Paula Peeters | Mar 22, 2020 | Nature journaling
The earth seems to be shifting under our feet. Nothing seems certain, and it’s easy to let our anxieties and fears grow. That is, if we focus on human affairs only. Because out there, in nature, the world is going on. Lives are born and lives end. Trees that are...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 18, 2020 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Nature journaling
Rain has emphatically returned to Beechmont in the last few days. Overnight we received 167 mm! I don’t like to complain about the lack of rain here, since we still tend to receive far more rain than many drought-ravaged places in Australia. But I guess...
