I spent three days in Yellowstone National Park  this week – a place of such winter stillness and beauty and solitude that all I did was take notes on what I was seeing and thinking. So I was amazed at the timing of this HARO e-mail response for advice to writers (see last post re:HARO)  from Sheryl Kayne that was waiting for me when I got back: 

As writers, we often need to reconnect with nature. Currently there are twenty-nine National Parks Artist-in-Residence (AIR) programs (http://www.nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm).   Each program must be applied to individually and has its own eligibility requirements, application fees, guidelines and expectations.  I was the writer in residence for a month in The Everglades  National Park, and it was an experience I'll never forget. It's one thing to visit a National Park and quite another to get to live inside one, devoting yourself to your writing.
–  Sheryl Kayne, www.immersiontraveler.com, author of IMMERSION TRAVEL USA: THE BEST & MOST MEANINGFUL VOLUNTEERING, LIVING & LEARNING EXCURSIONS (Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2009).