YOUR PLACE KEEP YOUR OWN NATURE JOURNAL.Not every book is for reading. Some are for illustrating or writing yourself. All you need is a little inspiration. For the nature lover who goes on and on about the birds he's spotted in the back yard or doodles Doodles can mean the following:
members of the animal class Amphibia. Includes frogs, toads, newts, salamanders and cecilians all capable of living on land or in water. . It will even help you learn tricks to be able to simply sketch insects and animals on the trail and develop your artistic skills by filling them in and adding color later. There are chapters on getting started by observing, recording and drawing, and individual chapters on chronicling each season of the year. Teaching children to keep their own journals is added at the end of the book. A companion hardcover, ``Nature Journal'' by Clare Walker Leslie (Storey Publishing; $16.95), provides you with blank pages on which to apply all you've learned. They are sprinkled with inspirational passages from Zen poets and Henry David Thoreau. An introduction outlines the equipment you will need, offers some journaling style suggestions and inspires you with more of Leslie's beautiful watercolors. In the end, this will be a book worth reading years later when it is filled with personal observations and sketches in the author's own hand. These books can be found in bookstores and garden centers or by going online to www.storey.com. - Daily News TREE TIPS: If you are heading out to buy a Christmas tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. this weekend, here are some tips from the National Christmas Tree Association. Keeping a tree fresh starts at the lot. Notice how the trees are being displayed. In a warm climate like the Southland south·land or South·land n. A region in the south of a country or an area. south  land·er n.Noun 1. , cut trees should be kept in the shade and standing in water or under misters. When you find one you like, run your forefinger forefinger /fore·fin·ger/ (-fing-ger) index finger; the second finger, counting the thumb as first. fore·fin·ger n. See index finger. and thumb down a branch; make sure very few green needles come off. Pull the tree out and shake it. It's natural for the tree to shed brown needles from the inside of the tree, but very few green needles should fall to the ground. Once you've found the perfect tree, make sure the trunk is trimmed again either at the lot or at home. A fresh cut should be made from the bottom of the tree cutting a half-inch off the trunk. You'll need a tree stand big enough to hold a quart of water for each inch in diameter of the tree. A typical 6-foot tree requires 4 quarts of water. Keep replenishing with fresh water; do not add aspirin aspirin, acetyl derivative of salicylic acid (see salicylate) that is used to lower fever, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and thin the blood. Common conditions treated with aspirin include headache, muscle and joint pain, and the inflammation caused by rheumatic or bleach bleach Solid or liquid chemical compound used to whiten or remove the natural colour of fibres, yarns, paper, and textile fabrics. Sunlight was the chief bleaching agent up to the discovery of chlorine in 1774 by Karl Wilhelm Scheele (b. 1742—d. , just water. For more tree tips, go to www.realchristmastrees.org. - Daily News I LOVE A PARADE: There's more to holiday decorations than pine trees, holly and mistletoe mistletoe, common name for the Loranthaceae, a family of chiefly tropical hemiparasitic herbs and shrubs with leathery evergreen leaves and waxy white berries. They have green leaves, but they manufacture only part of the nutrients they require. . Sunflower sunflower, any plant of the genus Helianthus of the family Asteraceae (aster family), annual or perennial herbs native to the New World and common throughout the United States. seeds, dried grasses, moss and bark are on the minds (and under the fingernails) of float builders working toward a Jan. 1 deadline for the Tournament of Roses. Charisma An earlier presentation graphics program for Windows from Micrografx that included a comprehensive media manager for managing large libraries of image, sound and video clips. Floats and Festival Artists Decorating are already busy with the preliminary applications in their facility at 120 N. Aspan Ave. in Azusa, while Fiesta Parade Floats workers toil in a pavilion at 2114 S. Buena Vista St. in Duarte. Now could be a good time to check out the works in progress. While they aren't yet as fragrant fra·grant adj. Having a pleasant odor. [Middle English, from Latin fr  gr as they will be in the last five days before the event, the crowds are not as bad. Call ahead for viewing hours and entrance fees, if any. For the most part, the volunteer positions are full. Mark the calendar in August 2004 to sign up for the 2005 parade. Here's where to find more information: Charisma (626) 815-7110 or www.charismafloats.com; Festival (626) 969-3405 or www.festivalartists.org; Fiesta (626) 256-0155 or www.fiestaparadefloats.com. - Valerie Kuklenski CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) no caption (Nature Journals) (3 -- color) no caption (man holding a Christmas tree) |
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