by Paula Peeters | Feb 15, 2018 | Events, Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling
This place where I live has a million stories, maybe more. Everyday I glimpse another fragment of plot, perhaps meet another character. Last Sunday a Lewin’s honeyeater gave me a cook’s tour of her larder (the genders of this species look the same, so it...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 19, 2018 | Books, Colouring books, Free downloads and printables, Wildlife illustration
Two summers ago I set off to the Hay Plain in southern New South Wales to explore and draw the remarkable Plains-Wanderer and its grassland habitat. Ray and I stayed in the old homestead at Oolambeyan National Park while I did the preliminary work for the Riverina...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 13, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
We usually only glimpse the topknot pigeons flying high and fast overhead, a steady workmanlike beat of strong grey wings and a flash of pink beak. But last week they were in the treetops at Tullawallal. It’s the highest point of the forest near Binna Burra, crowned...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 8, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
I’m still ‘getting to know the neighbours’ in Beechmont. I mean the plant and animal neighbours! And I suspect this might take a lifetime, what with the amazing and beautiful diversity up here, and the extensive Lamington National Park right on out...
by Paula Peeters | Jan 4, 2018 | Events, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration
Hello and Happy New Year! I hope your 2018 will be full of good things. This post is about some good things that happened to me last year thanks to the Ecological Society of Australia. The first was a commission to create a conference bag design for EcoTas2017, the...