Lots of tiny pretty things catch my eye.
A little flash of red caught my eye yesterday when I was working on repairs to the horses’ gate.
At the moment I was unable to move the grass aside to see …
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Slugs and Dragons and Ginseng, Oh My! Wild Ozark Creations
I’ve been working on a few new Wild Ozark creations lately. This creative streak seems to have no end in sight, either, because ideas just keep coming and I keep feeling compelled to follow them through.
Slugs
This is the …
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Custom Drawing – “Slug on Poison Ivy”
This is a custom drawing of a slug on poison ivy. In this post I’ll show you the process I use for drawing a picture with Prismacolor pencils. This particular nature drawing is for a business card client.
First, the
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Prettiest Rooster Contest
Do you have a pretty rooster?
Wild Ozark is hosting a contest to see who has the prettiest roosters out there.
Send in your entries!
11 Winners will get a free 2017 calendar featuring the prettiest roosters entered into our …
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Balanced Asymmetry and Order in Chaos in Nature, Work, and Art
Note: an edited and better composed version of this is posted over at Medium.
I’ve been in a crafty mood lately. It’s probably safe to say I’m always in a crafty mood. I think I’ve finally figured out why.…
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Mailbox and Back in Under an Hour
Yesterday I brought my camera with me when I went to the mailbox. If I had walked, I know it would have taken more than an hour because I would have seen so many more opportunities to stop and take …
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Top Questions from Readers: Healing Herbs
Healing Herbs: the first of the Top Questions and Topics of Interest from Readers
Healing herbs and using the wild plants for medicine was one of the most often mentioned topics in the recent survey results.
In case you’re just …
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Installing a Culvert Retaining Wall was Today’s Homestead Project
Today I built a culvert retaining wall for the culvert on the shop driveway to keep it from washing out around the sides. I was grateful for the overcast and dreary day so I could do this work without getting …
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No Water
This morning I turned on the faucet to put some water on my toothbrush.
Nothing but a few drops came out. Then, nothing. No water.
No Water
My thoughts immediately led to the question in my mind, which was “Where …
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Homestead Work
We’ve been busy doing a lot of outdoor homestead work since we came home from our gold panning trip to Colorado. That’s why there’s been no recent posts from me.
The weather has been atrociously hot and I’m just too …
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Panning for Gold in the Rockies
One of Rob’s lifelong dreams, panning for gold in the Rockies, has been fulfilled.
After finding out how relatively affordable such a thing can be, we bought mining rights to a small claim, sight unseen except for photos, in the …
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Gold in them thar hills? Ozarkians in the Rockies
I doubt there’s any gold in them thar hills of the Ozarks. Right now, though, we’re on a prospecting mission in the Rockies.
Part of my soul lives out there where the mountains are a mile and more high. However, …
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Avoiding Burnout: Fun Days at Wild Ozark
Avoiding Burnout
Anyone who has ever tried to build a homesteading life will know it’s a tremendous amount of work. So we also work at avoiding burnout.
The list of things on the “to do” list is so long, our …
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Busy Burning Coffee Days at Wild Ozark
My efforts at multitasking yesterday ended with flames, billowing smoke and the awful scent of burnt coffee beans. Surprisingly, I did not stop to get a picture of this event to document it for this post. At first there weren’t …
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A Wild Roast Coupon for Mother’s Day
Let the Wild Roast begin!
Oh yeah 🙂 I’m getting ready this morning for a full day of aromatic and sumptuous coffee roasting. Mmmmmm-Mmmmmmmm all the locals will soon get to try some of our delicious Wild Roast.
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Cedar-Apple Rust : Invasion of Alien-looking Fruiting Bodies
Cedar-Apple Rust
Yesterday we went out to check on ginseng seedlings and found the cedar trees blooming with Cedar-Apple Rust fruiting bodies. It’s caused by a fungus and alternates each year on cedars or apple trees. If there aren’t any …
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Photos of Plants – Medicinal & Useful plants down the Wild Ozark Driveway
I’m still mostly stuck in the house because of my knee (dislocated it a little over a week ago) but I took the four-wheeler and camera down the driveway to get a few photos of plants unfurling or coming into …
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Ginseng in May
I’m drawing a sketch of a 4-prong American ginseng from a photo I took last year in May. The sketch will be titled “Ginseng in May”.
My First Show Entry
This drawing will be displayed (and will be for sale) …
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Update from Wild Ozark
Lots of things going on – or rather, NOT going on lately.
If you’re a subscriber to my monthly newsletter, you’ve probably already seen the update that I won’t be doing the farmer’s market this year. I forgot to …
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Chasing Windmills and Wildflowers in South Texas
My past week has been filled with family and friends in Louisiana and Texas. While in Texas I got the notion to gather a collection of photos of the old windmills that are out there. Most of these are in …
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Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) Unfurling
The blue cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides) is awake early this spring. I found some the other day, in three different stages of unfurl.
The one completely unfurled is in a pot in the nursery area, the other two are in the …
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How to move a round bale without a hay spike by using the front-end loader instead.
I’ve been using a chain with the tractor and front end loader to move round bales to the horses. We don’t have a hay spike or fork attachment.
This how-to assumes you have a tractor with a front end loader …
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Dirt Road Photos – Ozark Sunset Silhouettes
Scene from the dirt road in the Ozarks of northwest Arkansas. The Ozarks from a Scenic Dirt Road
I was driving home from my daughter’s house this evening as the sun began setting on our beautiful Ozark hills. Just so happened …
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To-Do – All the Various & Odd Things on the List for March
The To-Do list today started out pretty clear cut. The plan was to get an early start into town. I need more potting soil, a few groceries, and feed for the horses. That plan was nixed when I woke up …
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The First Flowers of Spring at Wild Ozark
Nature lovers began the frenzy of watching for the first flowers of spring a few weeks ago. Here at Wild Ozark, we’re in a little eco-microcosm that is often more than a week behind surrounding areas in spring. Our temperatures …
