Printed out the Celestial Circular Calendar today on 65lb white cardstock and it turned out beautifully! Attached with three small binder rings, the pages can be separated without damage. I plan to add a limited amount of print calendars to my site. #2026calendar #circularcalendar

And this moon stuff is why I couldn’t help making my own calendar for 2026! A sneak peek below. If you enjoy journaling your nature observations, you just might love this. 🎨🐡🌕 www.ccreechstudio.com/product-cate...

Well, this beautiful Cold Moon called for some moon cookies tonight 😊 And it is throwing some great shadows through the trees, too! 🌕

FREE! I have added three, free coloring pages for download. The are original artworks that I created for the “All Along the Atlantic” and “Backyard Pollinator.” They can be found on the Art section of my shop. Link in bio. Enjoy! #coloringpages 🐡🌱🎨 www.ccreechstudio.com/product-cate...

I have been working on a little something… Check out my new, Circular Celestial Observation Calendar for 2026! A PDF downloadable designed specifically to allow *you* to add your own notes and drawings during the year. The sale price runs through Sunday! 🌕 🌎🐡🌱 www.ccreechstudio.com/product/2026...

While most of town is watching the big game, I took advantage of an early kickoff to make a run to the botanical garden before the snow started. Lots of pretty things to see! Some great recipes throughout the conservatory for their edible plants exhibit. 🌱#matthaeibotanicalgardens

I patted them dry yesterday and they are beautiful! The colors are well-preserved and they are flexible, unlike the dried/pressed ones. You can see a comparison in the pairs of leaves. Pretty cool! (Note: glycerin water can clog pipes, so dispose of it properly.) #leafpreservation #autumnleaves 🍂🍁

Leaf preservation experiment! I had read about using glycerin and water to preserve leaves, so I gave it a try this year. Using a 2:1 ratio of water to vegetable glycerin, I soaked a number of leaves for about 4 days (paper plate weights.) #leafpreservation #autumnleaves #glycerinwater 🍁🍂

Managed to catch some aurora tonight, even with that glorious full moon! #auroraborealis

A massive rewilding project in Ukraine is proving helpful for the wellbeing of veterans as well as helping large natural areas recover.

The full, Beaver super moon is looking spectacular tonight! #supermoon #beaversupermoon 🌕

So we often see doe and fawns, but today we had the whole family! This beautiful buck kept an eye on the doe and the baby buck as they fed. #deer 🦌

Capturing as much color as I can before it fades! The sun, sky and light have been gorgeous lately. And, of course, more beautiful leaves to pick up. #autumncolors #fallleaves🍁🍂

Squeezing in some good walks between rain this week. The colors are looking good! As usual, I can’t resist picking up some favorites. #autumnleaves #leafcolors 🍁

Not sure what prompted all the new followers, but welcome! Glad to have you here, following along with my latest artistic explorations and nature finds. Speaking of which, it has been dry around here, but there still is some good color coming on! I love these almost-fluorescent reds. 🍁 #autumnleaves

Results! I rinsed the fiber and the color was a beautiful, medium brown. After washing and drying, it lightened a bit. I also reduced some of the dye to make ink and noted some swatches in my sketchbook. To prevent mold growth, I added about a tablespoon of alcohol to the ink. #blackwalnutink

The process! I simmered the green hulls for about 4 hours and left the mixture overnight, squishing the hulls with my spoon to extract as much dye as possible. I strained the dye into a bucket using a fine mesh laundry bag. I alum-mordanted my fiber and soaked it in the dye for 2 days. #blackwalnut

That beautiful Harvest Moon is shining bright tonight! #harvestmoon #fullmoon 🌕

Black walnut dye, in-progress! I gathered about 60 and took my smashing rocks to them, (easier to crack), discarded the nuts (our squirrels will be happy) and am simmering the hulls in about 1.25 gallons of water for about 5 hours and soak overnight. Figuring out what I will dye later! 🌱🎨

The dahlias at County Farm Park are still going strong! A little dry, but looking good. 🌱#dahlias #fallblossoms #countyfarmparka2

Rest in peace, Dr. Goodall.

And that’s a wrap for SciArt September 2025! I love seeing all of the drawings together. Were they perfect? Nope. I am more fascinated by the process of each day, researching, deciding what to draw and keeping the momentum going. Congrats to all who could participate! 🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2025 #sciart

SciArt September, Day 30: Dream (shared future.) My dream of a shared future includes putting our beautiful planet first. Adaptations, balance, collaboration and diversity are all key components of this. 🐡🎨🌎 #earthfirst #dream #sciartseptember2025 #sciart

SciArt September, Day 29: Foresight (shared future.) Climate change is a major issue affecting our shared future. Attention to environmental management in addition to our built environment can be help to mitigate its effects. 🐡🎨 #foresight #climatechange #sciartseptember2025 #sciart

SciArt September, Day 28: Harvest. Manoomin is the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe name for wild rice. This sacred grain is traditionally harvested using a canoe and knocking stick to bend the rice stalks over the canoe and collect the grains. 🐡🎨🌱#sciartseptember #manoomin #harvest

SciArt September, Day 27: Bounded (people.) The state of Michigan, with its two peninsulas, is bounded by four of the five Great Lakes. It has the longest freshwater coastline in the U.S. at 3,288 miles. 🐡🎨 #sciartseptember2025 #bounded #michigan #freshwatercoastline #sciart

SciArt September, Day 26: Forage (people.) This is a hedgehog mushroom (Hydnum repandum.) It has spore-bearing structures in the form of spines, rather than gills. 🍄🎨🐡 #sciartseptember2025 #hedgehogmushroom #forage #spinesnotgills

Sciart September, Day 25: Tireless. Saffron is the hand-harvested, red stigmas from the center of each crocus blossom. It must be picked right before or after sunrise, and harvest happens every other day for a short, 3-week period in late summer into early autumn. #saffron #tireless 🐡🎨🌱

SciArt September, Day 24: Numbered (people.) I was thinking of numbers in nature and chose to depict the humble hexagon. Such a satisfying shape and efficient! It’s 120 degree angles allow the to tile a plane without gaps or overlaps. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2025 #sciart #hexagon #numbered

SciArt September, Day 23: Scouting. Sidewalk botanizing! Scouting for plats in an urban ecosystem can be fun and enlightening. This is Broadleaf Plantain, which is very common in disturbed areas such as sidewalks and driveway edges. 🎨🌱🐡#sciartseptember2025 #sciart #broadleafplantain #botanizing

SciArt September, Day 22: Fellowship (people.) I chose to depict two of the common motifs that appears on Neolithic Trypillian pottery—spirals and waves. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2025 #sciart #fellowship #spirals #waves #trypillian

Day 25 #SciArtSeptember prompt tireless: 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved a longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene, here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene. Her husband said, 🧵

SciArt September, Day 21: Reef. This is a beautiful Torch Coral (Euphyllia glabresceris.) It is a large-polyped stony coral found in the info-Pacific region. It has tubular tentacles with colorful tips. 🐡🎨🪸#sciartseptember2025 #torchcoral #reef #sciart

SciArt September, Day 20: Glacial. Glacial ice is not just a monolith. It is composed of layers that slowly transform over time through pressure and cold. The layer called firn is snow that has been compacted over a year without summer melting. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2025 #sciart #glacial #firn

SciArt September, Day 19: Depths. This is a Barreleye fish, which is found in the Pacific Ocean around 2,000 ft down. It has a transparent head with two, glowing green eyes on the top of its head, which help it to spot drifting animals for food. 🎨🐡#barreleyefish #sciart #sciartseptember2025

SciArt September, Day 18: Cenote. The Dotleaf Waterlily thrives in the clear waters of cenotes, which are natural sinkholes in limestone regions, most famously Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. This beautiful flower is widely represented in Mayan art. 🐡🎨🌱 #sciartseptember2025 #dotleafwaterlily #cenote

SciArt September, Day 17: Trawl. This is a Brown Pelican. These birds will follow fishing trawlers and feed opportunistically. This puts them at risk for injury from fishing gear and can interfere with natural foraging habits. 🐡🎨#brownpelican #trawl #sciartseptember2025

Sciart September, Day 16: Rift. Lake Baikal, “The Pearl of Siberia”, formed in the deepest rift valley on Earth. It is the deepest lake, with a max depth of 1,741 meters, and holds approx. 20% of the world’s freshwater volume—the same as all 5 Great Lakes combined! 🎨🐡 #rift #sciartseptember2025

Adding some color to the timeline after all of these drawings. 😊 I am really enjoying seeing these marigolds come on. I didn’t realize until today that they have a beautiful fragrance! Hoping to continue collecting and drying for dye later. 🌱#naturaldye

Day 18 #SciArtSeptember 🧪🐡prompt cenote, or the limestone sinkholes accessible by ground water, a term originally only used for characteristic features in the Yucatán, Mexico & now applied more broadly to karst features anywhere, including in Australia, where fascinating but endangered stygofauna: 🧵

#SciArtSeptember Day 18: Cenote A Mayan tetra, from a photo by Marco Endruweit. - #FishArt #tetra #wildlife #sketchbook

#SciArtSeptember 18 - Cenote Cenotes are sinkholes with unique fish faunas, found all over the world but especially common on the Yukatán Peninsula lining the Chicxulub crater, formed by the asteroid that ended the time of the dinosaurs. Big events still impact the world after millions of years.

THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL Very happy with this one Watercolor on paper, matted, 16x20 artologica.etsy.com/listing/4371... 🧪🐡🦠

I watched this green heron hunt in Stewart Park, Ithaca, NY. Sketched in coffee shops using Polychromos colored pencils on Stonehenge paper mounted to aluminum (Legion Paper). Moments after this pose it caught a catfish. Green herons are one of the smallest herons in North America. #birds #sciart

Day 15 #SciArtSeptember prompt spawn. I’m sharing my portrait of self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬 #histsci She is surrounded by blue jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life 🧵

SciArt September, Day 15: Spawning (water.) There are 1,700+ species of cucumbers, which spawn to reproduce externally. The Leopard Seal Cucumber has beautiful spots, grows up to 2 ft long and is found in the western Indo-Pacific region. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2025 #leopardseacucumber #spawn

SciArt September, Day 14: Mimic. The Mimic Octopus is an incredible impersonator of up to 18 different marine mammals, including sea snakes, lionfish and flatfish. 🎨🐡🐙 #sciartseptember2025 #mimic #mimicoctopus

SciArt September, Day 13: Bottleneck (species.) The Northern Elephant Seal was hunted nearly to extinction by the late 1800s. The resulting genetic bottleneck makes them more susceptible to disease and environmental changes. 🎨🐡🦭#sciartseptember2025 #bottleneck #northernelephantseal

#SciArtSeptember Day 14: mimic • I'm fascinated by how parts of our anatomy mimics shapes in nature such as the inner ear being shaped like a snail shell. nave of vibration (2017). #SciArt #embroidery

Apparently I needed a crafty Saturday. Using the great instructions from @verseandsip I created a Chinese Thread Book! I have always wanted to make one, and it came together surprisingly well. (Strathmore drawing paper and brown paper.) Have you ever tried to make one? #chinesethreadbook