Exploring the Ozark Hills

by Karen GoatKeeper

Visit the Ozark hills for a year through these 84 nature essays. Meet some of the plants, animals and events shaping that year. See these in the many full color photographs accompanying each essay. Relax and go walking the Ozark hills from the comfort of your chair as you read Exploring the Ozark Hills.

188 pages, Spiral-bound

Published January 1, 2011

About the author

Never enough time. This year has seven writing projects on the 'to do' list. I am hoping Life's Rules and the first Opal and Agate picture books will be done this fall.
Although The Carduan Chronicles: Ship Eighteen has a draft done, it is part of a trilogy that needs to have at least two books done before either is released. The Ship Nineteen draft is in progress, but is far from done.
There is a growing series of gardening essays on Ozark gardening. As I am busy taking photographs to illustrate the essays, this will be done next year.

Reviews

[P.J. O'Brien · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’d intended to draw out the reading of this charming nature guide. It covers the author’s farm and surrounding forest in the Ozarks over the four seasons of the year. I’d put it down and pick it up, waiting for the seasons to change in real life. But I enjoyed the reading and it seemed silly to wait as I thought about it more. I don’t live anywhere near the Ozarks, so I knew that many of the plants and insects covered in the book wouldn’t be those I’d see when I went out. And it was nice reading about snow and ice during a particularly horrendous heat wave.

The voice of the book has a timeless feel to it, reminding me of long-ago conversations between visiting grandparents and my mother as they strolled through the garden. Just as then, I learned so much from the observation of others, and it inspired me to go out and look more closely in my own backyard.