Tag: nature

• OUR URBAN OASIS

  

  A Place of Calm in the Middle of Chaos We live on the southeast side of Tallahassee, but when we drive a mile from our home to a city park, it’s hard to believe we’re so close to an urban area with a population of 200,000. We call it Piney Z after the name of…

  P. C. Zick

  August 12, 2025

  environment, Life in the United States, mindfulness, Ramblings of a Writer, travel, wildlife

  camping, Florida, Florida environment, hiking, kayaking, natural Florida, nature, outdoors, Tallahassee, travel

• ICHETUCKNEE SPRINGS – A HISTORY AND CULTURE OF A FLORIDA SPRING – #FREE

  A Project of the Heart Please download my new book, Ichetucknee Springs – A History and Culture of a Florida Spring. It’s #Free to download in any format that works for you. Click on the cover or here. Ichetucknee Springs – A History and Culture of a Florida Spring – my latest project offers a…

  P. C. Zick

  March 11, 2025

  Books by P. C. Zick, Life in the United States, New Release Announcements, Ramblings of a Writer, travel

  cave diver, Florida, Florida environment, Florida springs, free e-book, High Springs, Ichetucknee Springs, Jim Stevenson, Michigan, nature, north Florida, rivers, state parks, underwater cinematographer, Wes Skiles

• A Bit of Spring as Summer Surges

  Last year, my husband constructed a butterfly garden next to his raised beds. This year, we are enjoying the flowers of his labor. And so are the butterflies and bees.  

  P. C. Zick

  May 21, 2022

  Ramblings of a Writer

  butterfly garden, Florida, flowers, nature, spring, sunflowers

• Native Lands Released Today!

  It’s an exciting day for me–one eight years in the making. Native Lands is now a reality. It went from Connecting the Dots in its original form in 2006 when I participated in a Novel in a Month group. My month stretched out into 100 months, but I did take a break from it in…

  P. C. Zick

  October 29, 2014

  Books by P. C. Zick

  amazon.com, contemporary fiction contemporary romance, environment, Everglades, Florida, Florida fiction, Native Americans, nature, novel, St. Augustine, Timucuans

• Real Life Seeps into #Fiction

  I’m often asked if real life seeps into my novels. As we head into the anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill on April 20, I’ve thought about how much of my life seeped into the writing of Trails in the Sand. During April 2010, two significant manmade disasters occurred in the United States. Both…

  P. C. Zick

  April 19, 2014

  Books by P. C. Zick, Trails in the Sand, Writing Ideas

  amazon.com, authors, BP oil spill, characters, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, environment, fiction, Kindle, nature, novel, Trails in the Sand

• Writing from the Heart – For #.99 Cents

  Someone once said, “Write what you know.” That doesn’t mean that an author has to experience everything that appears in a work of fiction. To me it means to write what is in my heart. I lived in Florida for thirty years, and it’s in my heart. Most of my novels are set in the…

  P. C. Zick

  April 1, 2014

  Books by P. C. Zick, Ramblings of a Writer, Trails in the Sand

  amazon.com, authors, BP oil spill, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Florida, Florida fiction, nature, Trails in the Sand, wildlife

• Author Wednesday – Christina Carson

  Welcome to Author Wednesday. Today I welcome Christina Carson, author of Suffer the Little Children and Dying to Know. I featured Christina in 2013 and reviewed Suffer the Little Children. I love reading her blog, and recently I had the pleasure of reading Dying to Know. My review will be published later this week. I’ll…

  P. C. Zick

  March 5, 2014

  Author Wednesday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, blog, Canada, characters, fiction, nature, novel, philosophy, Vancouver, wilderness

• FREE on Kindle June 19-20

    Tortoise Stew is my first novel set in Florida. On June 19 and 20, it’s available for free downloads on Amazon. Synopsis: Small town politics take center stage in this novel about the development of Florida at any cost. Kelly Sands is a reporter covering some of the more controversial and contentious issues in the…

  P. C. Zick

  June 19, 2013

  Books by P. C. Zick

  amazon.com, bombs, characters, environment, fiction, Florida, nature, novel, politics, writers

• Book Review Friday – Suffer the Little Children

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Don’t let the title Suffer the Little Children steer you away from this novel by Christina Carson. A friend of mine saw on Goodreads that I was reading this book. She usually likes the same type of fiction I do, but she was a bit frightened about the title. I assured…

  P. C. Zick

  June 14, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  Alberta, authors, book reviews, Canada, characters, environment, fiction, grizzly bear, natural world, nature, novel, writers

• Book Review Friday – Vapor Trails

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick The subject of Vapor Trails by R.P. Siegel and Roger Saillant intrigued me from the start. I’ve been looking for other contemporary fiction novels with environmental themes, so when this one came across my twitter feed, I immediately researched it and then bought a copy. I wasn’t disappointed with the read,…

  P. C. Zick

  May 3, 2013

  Book Review Friday, Ramblings of a Writer

  authors, book reviews, characters, corporate greed, environment, fiction, nature, New Orleans, oil, sustainability