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Step into my forests and look around. Stop and smell the cedars and the damp earth. Inhale the fresh breeze blowing the branches into one another. Listen to the squirrels chattering, the woodpeckers attacking dead trees, the partridges whooping and swooshing to divert you from their young. Watch the deer and its fawn watching you back before they devour everything green in sight. Check out the endless engineering efforts of the beavers as they hew down trees for their construction projects and their fibrous dinner.

Is that coyote scat on the fire trail? Glacial erratics jutting out as misplaced boulders in the woods? Loons calling on the lakes? Green-headed mallard drakes and drab mallard females with ducklings paddling along the shore?

Have you seen the progression of undergrowth plants? From skunk cabbage to trout lilies and columbine to lady slippers and trilliums turning late winter into spring in the woods to low-lying white strawberry blossoms and tiny florets on waving grasses.  Spring flowers seem to be the cool colors and stark whites: lots of pink, some purples and yellows. Then the warm weather blooms and the world is green again – the leaves, the grasses, the air. The spring flowers fade. Then the summer colors march in – the eye-catching Indian Paint Brush, the coreopsis, the daisies and poppies – summer wildflowers are yellows and oranges and bright blues and purples. The butterflies are all about then! When the asters and sunflowers puncture the blue sky background with their so-vivid golden-oranges and purples, it’s time to look to autumn’s coming.

This is the woods I’ve walked all my life. I love the unrelenting march of the seasons, although they seem to spin faster every year! I stop a bit of time with every photograph that becomes a treasured image and I feel like I’m creating a scrapbook of nature and making it available for others to enjoy.

WoodswalkerTalk shows you some of the images I’ve captured and created and makes them available for you to purchase, primarily through Zazzle.com, where I have a store called Woodswalker. I also feature other Zazzle stores by colleagues or companies that I enjoy – and think you will, too. If you find cards and gifts and  products irresistible, you may like to know that I may be paid an affiliation fee if you purchase from other Zazzle stores. Additionally, I may recommend some online tools that I like and use or other products or services. Again, there may be an affiliate link. The FTC thinks you should know that. And so do I!

If you have any questions or comments, use the contact form to get in touch with me. There is also a “send message” link on the Woodswalker store where you can write a short note as well. Please note that all images are copyrighted by me with all rights reserved.

Check out more custom cards and gifts at the Woodswalker store on Zazzle.com.

Here’s to nature walks!

Debra – the Woodswalker