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Blogiversaries
The Dragonfly Woman turned one year old on May 28th! To celebrate, Chris is giving away a hand carved and hand printed linoleum block print of an insect, a Dragonfly Woman original design. The print will be printed with black ink on white acid-free watercolor paper, matted and ready to frame. The winner has his or her choice of insects: damselfly (Argia sp.), caterpillar hunter beetle (Calisoma sp.), scarab beetle, ant (Polyrachis sp.), or giant water bug (Lethocerus medius). Entering is easy: just leave a comment at this blog post by June 4 – that’s this Friday. Chris will randomly select a winner from the entries and send the print in the mail.
Nature Tours and Retreats
Cindy of Prairie Pond Woods, a 27-acre retreat in Lynx, Ohio, and writer of a blog of the same name about the nature found at the site, invites ‘Wildwomen’ to a Summer Reflective Retreat on June 19 from 10 am -5 pm. Come relax, reflect, explore, eat good food and take in all the beauty of the “lil smokies” in Adams County, Ohio. This one-day retreat begins with a 1-2 hour moderate hike with a the “Refresher Course” to learn about the flora and fauna found in the three different habitats. Afterward, a healthy, organic lunch is served, and the afternoon is reserved for solitude in nature or a creative activity on the deck. Come alone or bring your friends, mothers, sisters and daughters to enjoy a day to yourselves in the country. Cost is $45.00 per person. Deadline for individual or group registration is June 5 – that’s this Saturday. Visit the Prairie Pond Woods website for more information or call 937-532-6688.
Attention nature writers! (That includes every one of our 1122 members, by the way.) The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is a small nonprofit operating a writers’ residency program. Nestled on a beautiful bend in the road known as Dairy Hollow, the Colony hosts more than 50 established and emerging writers a year for residencies that vary in length from one week to three months. They are currently offering the Moondancer Fellowship, a grant covering the costs of a full 4-week (or two 2-week) residency for writing about nature and the outdoors. Applications must be postmarked by June 15, 2010, in order to be considered, or may also be submitted online or by email by the same date. You can find out more about the writers’ residency here, and information on the fellowship can be found here.
Contests and Promotions
Amber of Birder’s Lounge is continuing her photo ID challenge for 2010 under the name Challenge for Charity. Try your hand at identifying a series of photos; the person with the most correct receives a $10 donation to the charity of their choice.
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Help us id this snake seen at Sullivan’s Is. SC to the right of Ft. Moultrie on the beach. He was hiding in the rocks. A mocking bird drew our attention by fretting around the rocks. It finally came out and was 4 to 5 feet long with tannish/green horizontal stripes. He crawled like a sidewinder through exposed rootes up a shrub to get the bird eggs? The bird was agressively going after it when if left the brush. Was it a crayfish snake?