The Nocturnal Naturalist

As the sun sets and the world grows dark, a wakeful naturalist is rewarded with bountiful activity - from night-blooming flowers enticing insect pollinators to owls alerting each other of potential prey.
This field journal observes the wilderness from dusk to dawn, chronicling the four seasons wiht observations, reflections and discoveries beginning in early spring. Under the mysterious cloak of night, the natural world is full of surprises for those who venture out.
Cathy Johnson's lyrical prose describes the scents of a summer evening; the bright moonlight of a late fall night; a barred owl chasing a great blue heron through the winter woods and a chorus of birds ushering in the first light of dawn. Her writing is enchanting - inviting you to set out into the night and observe for yourself as the moon and stars reign overhead.
Expertly illustrated with the author's own artwork, this book presents observations of the plants, animals, insects and natural environment that all of us miss if we only venture out during the daytime.

Cathy Johnson has worked as a naturalist, writer, and freelance artist for the past 40 years, and was staff naturalist and contributing editor for Country Living magazine for 11 years. She has been a contributing editor to Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Artist, and authored a regular column in Personal Journaling, where she wrote on the importance of creativity in our lives. Her writing and artwork have been included in a number of nature anthologies and art books.
She has written and illustrated many books, and contributed to a number of others, working with a variety of national publishing houses.
In 1993, she founded her own small publishing company, Graphics/Fine Arts Press, which primarily offers books of interest to the reenacting community or others interested in history and material culture.
She has been a longtime member of the Author's Guild. She was chosen Conservation Communicator of the Year by the Burroughs Audubon Society in l987, and won the Thorpe Menn Award for Creative Writing (AAUW) for The Naturalist's Cabin: Constructing the Dream (Viking Penguin) in 1992.
Cathy teaches a number of self-directed mini-classes on her website, http://cathyjohnson.info. She also offers a number of free tutorial videos on YouTube; visit https://www.youtube.com/user/KateJosTube.