Oak Openings – Flowering Moon

In the late spring, I added a few new flowers to my Oak Openings native prairie. This gorgeous yellow Prairie Coneflower is one of them. She happily took up with a Black-eyed Susan and a clump of Little Bluestem for company. They’re having a wonderful summer together, despite the dry […]

My Growing Oak Openings Prairie

28 Jul, 2016 in Nature Connection / Oak Openings / Uncategorized by debfloweringmoon

One of most beautiful places in Ohio is under threat – the Oak Openings region. Home to a third of Ohio’s rare, native species, this area is filled with forest, wetlands, wet prairie, open meadow, glacial sand dunes and rare oak savanna. A recent resource report shows the Oak Openings region […]

Nexus Pipeline vs. The Oak Openings

7 Nov, 2015 in Activism / Nature Connection / Oak Openings / Uncategorized by debfloweringmoon

If you’ve been following me on Facebook, then you know about the pipeline. Since last October, things have been a whirl of activity as I’ve been working to organize grass-roots opposition to a huge gas pipeline that has been proposed here in Ohio. The Nexus pipeline project would be a […]

Oak Openings, Pipelines and the Work of a Matriarch

1 Jul, 2015 in Activism / Nature Connection / Oak Openings / Uncategorized by debfloweringmoon