Peggy Smith Eppig
@peggy-smith-eppig.bsky.social
Park rangers never retire. Environmental historian. Pilgrim poet who loves strenuous adventure then writes and does art about it.
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Environmental and natural history, conservation landscapes, environmental arts. Click to read The Land Journals, by Peggy Smith Eppig, a Substack publication. Launched a day ago.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I didn't intend to find this place but I didn't want to drown crossing an angry flash flooding creek. Can you hear the ancestors sing? An American Jeremiad.
An Inspiring Unintentional Pilgrimage
Road walking around a flooded section of trail this past weekend, I came across an old cemetery.
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June 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I didn't intend to find this place but I didn't want to drown crossing an angry flash flooding creek. Can you hear the ancestors sing? An American Jeremiad.
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
I went into the woods to sketch and paint spring ephemerals and realized that for that hour I didn't think once about the scumbags who are threatening to destroy our natural places here in the U.S.
April 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I went into the woods to sketch and paint spring ephemerals and realized that for that hour I didn't think once about the scumbags who are threatening to destroy our natural places here in the U.S.
I was asked to demonstrate the process of field sketch development after an indoor class at a museum. Happy to provide. naturalmidatlantic.blogspot.com/2025/03/sket...
Sketchy Business: Walk with Spring 2025 Landscapes
I received a few emails after our meeting at the Natural History Society of Maryland workshop on nature journaling last week asking for more...
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March 21, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I was asked to demonstrate the process of field sketch development after an indoor class at a museum. Happy to provide. naturalmidatlantic.blogspot.com/2025/03/sket...
I started nature journaling a long time ago when working from collections in museums and arboretums was how we began as chroniclers of the natural world. It was fun to return to my roots in natural history illustration with this indoor group workshop at the Natural History Society of Maryland.
MD Natural History Society of Maryland: Nature Journal Workshop
I always tell folks who attend my nature journal workshops that I promise I won't come around and look over their shoulders - and I never ...
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March 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I started nature journaling a long time ago when working from collections in museums and arboretums was how we began as chroniclers of the natural world. It was fun to return to my roots in natural history illustration with this indoor group workshop at the Natural History Society of Maryland.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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My Uphill Road end-of-month newsletter reveals my obsession with mapping pilgrimage in not-so-subtle ways. peppig.substack.com/p/uphill-roa...
Uphill Road Newsletter #2
January 2025
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January 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My Uphill Road end-of-month newsletter reveals my obsession with mapping pilgrimage in not-so-subtle ways. peppig.substack.com/p/uphill-roa...
Stunning Tournai black marble font located on the north nave aisle in Winchester Cathedral features St Nicholas giving a bag of money to a poor and shamed nobleman to fund his three daughter's dowries. A young nobleman and his hunting hawk stand aside, awaiting his bride. Ho Ho Ho! #fontsonfriday
December 21, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Stunning Tournai black marble font located on the north nave aisle in Winchester Cathedral features St Nicholas giving a bag of money to a poor and shamed nobleman to fund his three daughter's dowries. A young nobleman and his hunting hawk stand aside, awaiting his bride. Ho Ho Ho! #fontsonfriday
Excited for my day-long pilgrimage to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown tomorrow as I begin a year-long research project on U.S. politics and pilgrimage. Study, interview, research, and just be with the place. Then write about it. Repeat. peppig.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Excited for my day-long pilgrimage to Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown tomorrow as I begin a year-long research project on U.S. politics and pilgrimage. Study, interview, research, and just be with the place. Then write about it. Repeat. peppig.substack.com