365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Botanical Drawing
Day 248: This year, the Volunteer Program is taking a new tack with respect to training incoming and recurring volunteers. In years past, we packed as much information as possible into two all-day sessions, a plan which left many people butt-weary and glassy-eyed, if better informed. For 2019, we're offering more sessions, including a half-day orientation for new Meadow Rovers and a second half-day for returning Rovers. In addition to the basic training, we will be offering one- to two-hour specialized programs from subject-matter experts and...well, you can probably guess how that applies to me. To that end, I had to dust off my limited artistic skills to create pencil drawings which I then put through my photo-processing software to render in high-contrast black-and-white. These will be part of the "Lichen Fact Sheet" I hand out to my "victims." A one-hour program on lichens, mycoheterotrophs, slime molds and rarities will be followed by a hands-on field trip through Longmire Campground in early August.
Labels:
botanical art,
lichen forms,
MORA,
training,
Volunteer Program
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