Spring Green
Wandering around my front and back yard, so many flowers are in bud right now, and are about to burst. And that’s how I feel about my book! This process has been about three years long and the actual book will finally be here in a month!
I’ve scheduled book events for nearly every weekend beginning in June. I am excited to share the book with everyone and talk with folks across the state about Oklahoma’s diversity. However, I generally think of myself as an introvert. Yet, get me talking about native plants, ecoregions, birds, or converting lawns to meadows, and I can get pretty animated!
Event Schedule - mark your calendar for an event near you!
May 26 - BOOK IS PUBLISHED!
June 13 - Tribal Alliance for Pollinators Book Release Party, Bixby
June 20 - Presentation and Guided Walk, Oxley Nature Center, Tulsa
June 25 - Presentation, Red Earth Group of the Sierra Club, Norman
June 27 - Presentation, hike, and workshop, Lake Murray State Park
June 28 - Hike and workshop, Lake Thunderbird State Park
July 18 - Nature Journaling, Stillwater Public Library, OSU Botanical Garden
July 27 - Presentation, Noble Public Library
Aug. 1 - Presentation, Lake Thunderbird State Park
Aug. 3 - Hike and Talk, Noble Public Library
Aug. 5 - Presentation, Oklahoma Gardeners Association, OKC
Aug. 22 - Presentation and Nature Journaling, Ardmore City Library
Sept. 3 - Presentation, McAlester Public Library
Sept. 5 - Hike with the Author, City of Lawton Library at Wichita Mountains NWR
Sept. 9 - Book Review Luncheon, Stanley Tubbs Memorial Library, Sallisaw
Sept. 12 - Family Program, Ponca City Public Library
Sept. 13 - Booth and book signing, Okies For Monarchs Festival, Tahlequah
Sept. 19 - Featured Speaker, Monarchs on the Mountain, Chandler Park, Tulsa
Sept. 26 - Hike and Nature Journaling, Woodward Public Library
Spring Flowers
The Oklahoma Penstemon is having a banner year in the meadow just south of the Sam Noble Museum in Norman. An indicator of unplowed prairie, this species of penstemon thrives in regularly mowed hay meadows. This site, now surrounded by OU student housing, the museum, and athletic fields was a dairy farm pasture decades ago. Scattered populations of the Oklahoma penstemon can be found in mowed prairies throughout south central Oklahoma and generally blooms in mid to late April.
One of our few state endemic plants, the Oklahoma penstemon (Penstemon oklahomensis).
Teaser
My whirlwind summer of biodiversity presentations, guided hikes, and journaling workshops will be followed by some quiet time. I’ve got a project idea for the fall that will give me hours of rejuvenating alone time. I’m not quite ready to share with everyone. I will say that it will be a BIG adventure for me. I need to do some more planning, before I make a specific announcement. But I hope it will be something you all will be interested in following along!
The red sandstone bluffs at Sandy Sanders WMA. Dropping a hint here. 🙂