A lifetime of camping and sketching the American West is inspiration for artist and author, Janice E. Kirk. Works include Milton the Mouse; The Christmas Redwood, a Forest Parable; The Road to Beaver Park, Painting, Perception, and Pilgrimage; Cherish the Earth, the Environment and Scripture. She also illustrated Wild Edible Plants of Western North America (D. R. Kirk, 1970). Teacher of art, language arts, and music, including voice at Simpson University in Redding, California, she hopes readers will enjoy nature’s wonders every day.