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Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist
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I am a Master Naturalist, nonfic writer, nature educator, tour guide, and all-around nature nerd who spends too much time in front of screens. Author of "The Everyday Naturalist" (Ten Speed Press, June 2025). PNW. AuDHD. She/her. RebeccaLexa.com
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So on my way to the KC area for my last book signing, I passed through the one and only #Tightwad, #Missouri. I figured I would just giggle a little about actually having driven through it--but then I saw this. Of course I had to stop for photographic evidence! #silly #humor #funny #places
A photo of a large sign on a post that says Tight Wad Bank. the clock below says 00. It is against a partly cloudy sky. A photo of a brown brick building with a porch with white posts in the front. A gray Subaru Outback is parked in the lot in front. the sky overhead is partly cloudy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Just a couple more spots left in tomorrow night's 21+ #owl pellet dissection class in #Portland! You can reserve your place at www.experimentpdx.com/event-detail... #Owls #VultureCulture #Oregon #PNW #nature #birds #raptors #science 🌿
A large brown owl with yellow eyes and two feathery ear tufts stares down at the viewer through a veil of green leaves and tree branches as the sun peeks through with bits of blue sky.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Helped with #TrailWork at #Pendleton Adventure #Trails on Saturday, last day of the #Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit! A really nice endcap to both the summit and my 5+ week book tour. Home now, decompressing and reminiscing. #hiking #volunteering #HopePunk #nature #EasternOregon
A tree with drooping branches and silvery green leaves leans over a nearly-obscured trail on a grassy slope. A section of grassy ground where the grass has been pulled away from part of it, leaving dry ground soil exposed. A long, winding section of trail on the grassy slope, with the silvery green trees further back from the trail and sunbeams peeking through from the left.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Highlight of the Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit: former NPS director Charles Sams speaking about his work, how his indigenous (Cayuse, Walla Walla) roots have informed his decisions and values, and what gives him hope for the future ❤️ Really inspiring opportunity!
a photo of a Native American man in a dark suit and pale shirt with a colorful beaded necklace stands at a podium before a light colored curtain with purple lights, with a mixed audience of people on the floor in front of the stage.
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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A couple sketches during day 1 of the #Oregon Outdoor Recreation Summit. Drawing helps my #ADHD brain stay focused! #nature #ColoredPencils #landscape #forest #fish #RainbowTrout 🌿
A pale left hand holds open a small red covered sketch book with a colored pencil drawing of conifer trees in a meadow with purple and yellow flowers. Next to it sits a tiny flat pack of twelve miniscule colored pencils. A close up of the drawing from the previous picture. A drawing of the head of a rainbow trout with green on top, silver on the underside, red patches on the gill covers, and dark spots on all the green parts. A close up of the sketchbook and colored pencils from the first picture.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Visited the original #BootHill in Hays, #Kansas. Picked up #litter while I was there. I invite you to take a few minutes to make some little corner of the world better, too. #graveyard #cemetery #WildWest #history #volunteering #kindness #LookForTheHelpers 🌿
A small wall made of yellow limestone, with a gray stone carving of a man in an old fashioned suit standing on top. The front has a weathered bronze plaque. The wall is flanked by small, scrubby green trees and dried grass. A close up of the plaque which explains this is the original Boot Hill cemetery, so named because many were buried here with their boots still on. Below the explanation is a list of some of the names of people interred here. A photo of the wall in the distance, across a large area of closely cropped brown grass. A view inside a plastic grocery bag showing bits of garbage.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Delightfully cozy #BookSigning at Monarch #Books & Gifts in Overland Park, #Kansas! Thank you to everyone; it was a great last event for this #BookTour. #Bookstores #TheEverydayNaturalist #nature #authors 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
A white woman with long light brown hair and glasses, wearing a maroon shirt and white skirt with flowers, black tights, and brown boots. She stands in front of a fireplace surrounded by comfy chairs and bookshelves, and she holds a book called The Everyday Naturalist.
November 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Wanna join an online #nature #StudyGroup on The Everyday #Naturalist (and also maybe in-person in Portland, OR)? Want to get better at identifying #animals, #plants, and #fungi? Find out more at tinyurl.com/mpjfh2r6 #NaturalHistory #wildlife #books #BookClub #science 💙📚 💡📚
Four books arranged in an arc on a light colored rug. The books are copies of The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go by Rebecca Lexa. The cover is dark blue with light green and white text, and the cover's border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms.
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Spent 3 hours in the cold and rain today with Ozark Rivers Audubon picking up litter along the north end of the #Nature Center, including mulched-up fiber optic cable (!) We managed to mostly fill a good-sized dumpster! #volunteering #Missouri #Ozarks #environment #environmentalism #conservation
An image of a piece of ground that is a patchwork of green grass and dark brown mud. There are little bits of white and blue plastic all over. More plastic fragments mixed in with organic material in a large white bucket. A few tiny, hair-thin colorful filaments of plastic mixed into a patch of grass on the ground. The same patch of ground as before, but with less plastic and a few more bare patches of mud.
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Had another fabulous #BookSigning last night at Skylark Bookshop, Columbia, #Missouri! Great crowd with lots of excellent questions/observations. Plus I got to sign the door that all signing authors get to sign, which was REALLY cool. Skylark has a few signed #books leftover, too. 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
Two white bookshelves on a raised platform and adorned with green houseplants. The shelves feature a book with a dark cover surrounded by colorfully drawn animals, plants, and fungi, called The Everyday Naturalist. A city street can be seen through the window behind the shelves. A white door with a variety of signatures and dates written on it in black marker.
October 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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How can losing a natural place, a species, or an entire ecosystem cause ecological #trauma? Why is the American relationship with grief so unhealthy? I explain why it's okay to grieve for nature lost at rebeccalexa.com/its-okay-to-... #psychology #environment #nature #MentalHealth #ecopsychology 🌿
A stream of water trickles over a broad terrace of brown rock, bounded by green trees and other vibrant plants.
October 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Less than a month to go (Nov 14), and space is getting really limited for my 21+ #owl pellet #class at Experiment in SE #Portland! Register at www.experimentpdx.com/event-detail... today 🦉 #OwlPellets #Birds #VultureCulture #nature #AnimalBones #wildlife #owls 🌿
A large gray-brown owl with dark stripes on its feathers, big yellow eyes turned toward the viewer, two ear-like feather tufts on its head, and a black beak sits on a thick pine branch with a small furry mammal in its talons.
October 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Well, #StLouis, your crowd was at least as big as Denver's! Great #BookSigning last night! Left Bank Books has a few signed copies remaining. Meanwhile, I head to Columbia #Missouri to Skylark Books on Thursday for a 6:30pm #book event. #books #authors #writing #nature 🌿 💙📚 💡📚
A photo of a book with a dark blue cover bordered by a variety of color animals, plants, and fungi. The text is green; the title is The Everyday naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go and it is by Rebecca Lexa. It has a sticker on the front indicating it is a signed copy. A white woman with light brown hair, glasses, and a clay-colored shirt sits at a faux wood table. She is looking up at someone off-camera and talking, while holding an open book in one hand and a pen in the other.
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Enjoyed a day at the #StLouis #Zoo before tonight's book signing at the Schlafly #Library at 6. Got to see some of my favorite #animals! #hyenas #PaintedDogs #gecko #DartFrogs #herps #amphibians #reptiles #feliformes #WildCanids #Zoos #WildAnimals #Missouri 🌿
A large brown spotted hyena snoozes contentedly in a patch of sunlight next to a pile of hay. An African painted dog with patches of brown, white, and black and big round ears walks toward the camera. A glass terrarium, upon which is impressed the bright white underside of a snoozing gecko. A small yellow dart frog with black spots on a pile of leaf litter and moss.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Yesterday's book signing at the Rolla Public Library was more than I could have hoped for! Today I head to St. Louis for my signing at the Schlafly Public Library at 6pm, and I'll be carrying the joyful glow from yesterday with me. (Thanks to Linda Frederick of Ozark Rivers Audubon for the photo!)
A white woman with light brown hair and glasses, wearing a gray shirt with herons and a darker gray calf length broomstick skirt. She stands in front of a table with books on it, reading from a sheet of paper.
October 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Just a reminder that my #BookSigning for The Everyday Naturalist at the #Rolla Public #Library in my hometown of Rolla, #Missouri is happening today (10/19) at 2pm. Tomorrow, the Schlafly Library in #StLouis at 6pm. #BookTour #nature #NaturalHistory #nonfiction #Ozarks #wildflowers #NativePlants 🌿💙📚
A pale right hand supports a delicate plant with slender green stems, purple trumpet-shaped flowers, and deep green lance-shaped leaves.
October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I have upcoming #Missouri #BookSignings in Rolla, #StLouis, Columbia, and #KansasCity - dates/locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com (you can also order a signed #book there if you can't make it to an event!) RS OK #prairie #TallGrassPrairie #grassland #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚
A photo of a line of dried grass and wildflowers, with a few green plants amid the sea of brown. Overhead the sky is blue with a variety of white clouds.
October 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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A most excellent #BookSigning at Francie & Finch in Lincoln, #Nebraska and then exploring Spring Creek #Prairie Audubon's #tallgrass trails before making it to Rolla, MO last night. More #book events soon, but for now rest (and email catchup!) #Bookstores #BookTour #TheEverydayNaturalist 🌿 💙📚
A stack of copies of the book The Everyday Naturalist by Rebecca Lexa, resting on a small, round, wooden table with an intricately carved top. One other copy of the book sits on a stand next to them, next to an informational flyer about a book signing featuring the book. Above is a white sign with blue lettering that says "Francie and Finch Bookshop"; the ampersand is nestled in the blue silhouette of a bird. A long, dirt path trailing through a wide prairie full of tall grasses and dried wildflowers. Over the hills is a blue sky with stretched-out white clouds. A view of a blue sky through the red-brown stalks of dried prairie grass. There is a line of green trees far in the distance.
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Fabulous #BookSigning at The Story Collective in St. Joseph, #Missouri yesterday! (Only five signed copies left in store.) Now on to Francie & Finch in Lincoln, #Nebraska for a 3pm #BookEvent 📚💙
Five copies of a book called The Everyday Naturalist on a wooden shelf with other books and puzzles about nature. One copy is on a wooden stand, and the others are stacked next to it. A view up into the canopy of a deciduous tree with yellow-tinted leaves and jagged-edged seed heads. A blue sky peeks through the leaves. A low-growing plant with several green, heart shaped leaves, surrounded by dry brown leaf litter
October 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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After #bookstore hopping around #Oklahoma City all day yesterday, I am headed to St. Joseph, #Missouri for today's 2pm #BookSigning at The Story Collective! Bonus #nature walk with local #naturalist Ann Marie Chappell afterwards 💚 📚💙
Two brown butterflies with orange and white spots on the wings rest on a grassy patch of ground
October 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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A few treasures from #KonzaPrairie in east #Kansas #FlintHills today. My first monarch in 20+ years, my first sheepmoth, and my first speckled #kingsnake! #lepidoptera #insects #butterflies #moths #snakes #reptiles #herps #TallGrassPrairie #hiking #nature #wildlife #animals 🌿
An orange, black, and white butterfly on a cluster of tiny yellow flowers in the middle of a wide, grassy prairie with a blue sky overhead. A very fuzzy and large black and white moth with rust colored accents resting with its wings folded on a piece of vegetation. A long black snake with many tiny cream colored speckles on a gravel road. Its body curves side to side and its forked tongue is sticking out.
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Denver showed UP tonight!!! Tattered Cover sold out of more books than you see here, and has to order a bunch more that are already spoken for. Thank you, everyone--St. Joseph, MO is next on Oct. 11!
A group of people of various demographics sitting in a few rows of chairs in a bookstore. Many are holding the same book as the author, who stands smiling in the middle of them. A stack of books with dark blue spines and green text that says The Everyday Naturalist, Lexa. They sit on a brown wooden table in a bookstore.
October 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A few photos I took while driving through the #WasatchMountains from #SLC to #Denver yesterday. My book signing is at 6pm tonight at the Colfax Tattered Cover location! You can see all my #BookTour dates and locations at TheEverydayNaturalist.com #Utah #Colorado #nature #NaturePhotography 🌿 💙📚
A photo of two large rock hills next to each other, studded with scrubby bushes, with a blue sky and puffy white clouds overhead. A landscape with scrubby bushes and trees, with a large brown outcropping of rock rising from the ground, and a blue sky overhead. The sun shining brightly through a crevice in a dark stone cliffside. The sun's beams almost obscure a small waterfall trickling down the side of the rock. The sky is blue.
October 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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#SaltLakeCity has an impressive #bookstore culture--and that's coming from someone who live in #Portland! Spent the past couple days exploring the #bookstores here, but today I drive to #Denver for my 10/07 6pm #BookSigning at the Colfax Tattered Cover. #nature #nonfiction 🌿 💙📚
A picture of a Caucasian woman with light brown hair, a gray t-shirt with herons on it, and a gray skirt and brown purse with mushrooms, standing in front of a tall bookshelf full of books on nature. She holds a copy of a book called The Everyday Naturalist, and she is smiling happily. A close-up photo of a book called The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go, written by Rebecca Lexa. It has a dark blue cover, green text, and the border is full of brightly colored animals, plants, and mushrooms. It sits on a bookshelf with its cover facing out, flanked by the spines of neighboring books.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Just a few people trickling through my #BookSigning in Salt Lake City, but the #Nature Center at Pia Okwai has given us lots of great flora and fauna to talk about!
October 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM