I love this post! It gave me some ideas for a project I am in the early stages of working on and it also has me thinking about some things I need to look for in the rich archive I have access to help with the project.
Great article! Just as I am thinking about teaching a class on Nature Journals, this shows up! I love seeing how others think about journals. Thank you for starting my Earth Day with beautiful examples!
Thanks for this! I have been journaling my walks but you have given me courage to do even more. I will try to sketch. I have done that before especially in Italy. Even though my sketches are pure crap just the effort brings me deeper into the place.
I have a goal to visit many of the state parks in Minnesota this year. I must pick up a notebook and carry it with me to document these hikes — the animals, flowers, sounds.
Ah! We just went to the Brooklyn Botanical garden a couple of weeks ago. I smelled sooo many flowers and journaled by the koi pond. I couldn't stop remarking on all of the incredible trees! Something I've deeply missed since moving to NYC. I love your note 😍
I loved this post JIllian! What a perfect post for Earth Day. I have such a fondness for many of the artists/writers you mentioned. So cool that you used Coleridge's notes for your walk. Also so happy you are enjoying taking notes and sketching outside more often now. Always so interesting and uplifting!
I keep a perpetual journal where I document botanical subjects that I see or collect each week. The idea is to continue recording in the journal weekly for a whole year and then start again in the new year. It can take up to five years to fill the journal. If you miss a week--no pressure, just add something the next year. It's fun to see it filling up. Thanks for sharing such a great post Jillian! xx
Stunning! I lack so much confidence in the creative side of my notebooking - but you've well and truly inspired me to just DO it! Saving this post for forever reference. 🌱 Thank you so much, Jillian. 😊
Being a terrible artist I have always struggled with this. Completely forgot about sticking samples in the book lol. Thanks for pointing out the obvious which had escaped me for many years.
Thanks for this, Jillian. I just spent an hour rereading Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey, published in 1968. He had kept a journal of two summers (1956 and 1957) spent as a park ranger at Arches National Monument just before it got developed with paved roads. Being raised in the Midwest, it helped pique my interest in traveling to desert lands.
Another wonderful book I must reread is A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold, published in 1949. He writes about his home in Wisconsin.
Both books were read alongside Rachel Carson's Silent Spring by those of us interested in the environmental movement of the 1970s.
This post had me pull out my copy of poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins collection, which has his journals at the back (poetry in the first half). He also drew sketches to illustrate his descriptions as he wrote. I want to send photos of these here, but it seems no pics can be posted in the comments?
Really lovely! I love combining diarising with nature - so many different ways to do it!
I love this post! It gave me some ideas for a project I am in the early stages of working on and it also has me thinking about some things I need to look for in the rich archive I have access to help with the project.
You know, Benjamin Bouncer is quite the intriguing name. It has a fascinating RING to it. I might use it as an alias if the need arose.
Beatrix was CLEVER. 😉🦉
Great article! Just as I am thinking about teaching a class on Nature Journals, this shows up! I love seeing how others think about journals. Thank you for starting my Earth Day with beautiful examples!
Thanks for this! I have been journaling my walks but you have given me courage to do even more. I will try to sketch. I have done that before especially in Italy. Even though my sketches are pure crap just the effort brings me deeper into the place.
I have a goal to visit many of the state parks in Minnesota this year. I must pick up a notebook and carry it with me to document these hikes — the animals, flowers, sounds.
Beautiful. Thank you!
And, happy Earth Day (every day)!
Loved this! Thank you for pulling in the creative logs of others for inspiration.
Ah! We just went to the Brooklyn Botanical garden a couple of weeks ago. I smelled sooo many flowers and journaled by the koi pond. I couldn't stop remarking on all of the incredible trees! Something I've deeply missed since moving to NYC. I love your note 😍
Also, Beatrix Potter forever!
What a beautiful post for Earth Day. And lovely to see the wonderful Beatrix Potter again! :)
I recently started my own herbarium journal as a way to remember my garden since we will be moving soon. I’m really enjoying it!
I loved this post JIllian! What a perfect post for Earth Day. I have such a fondness for many of the artists/writers you mentioned. So cool that you used Coleridge's notes for your walk. Also so happy you are enjoying taking notes and sketching outside more often now. Always so interesting and uplifting!
I keep a perpetual journal where I document botanical subjects that I see or collect each week. The idea is to continue recording in the journal weekly for a whole year and then start again in the new year. It can take up to five years to fill the journal. If you miss a week--no pressure, just add something the next year. It's fun to see it filling up. Thanks for sharing such a great post Jillian! xx
Stunning! I lack so much confidence in the creative side of my notebooking - but you've well and truly inspired me to just DO it! Saving this post for forever reference. 🌱 Thank you so much, Jillian. 😊
Being a terrible artist I have always struggled with this. Completely forgot about sticking samples in the book lol. Thanks for pointing out the obvious which had escaped me for many years.
I love the handwritten maps of walks! I've got to start doing that in my bullet journal :)
Thanks for this, Jillian. I just spent an hour rereading Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey, published in 1968. He had kept a journal of two summers (1956 and 1957) spent as a park ranger at Arches National Monument just before it got developed with paved roads. Being raised in the Midwest, it helped pique my interest in traveling to desert lands.
Another wonderful book I must reread is A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold, published in 1949. He writes about his home in Wisconsin.
Both books were read alongside Rachel Carson's Silent Spring by those of us interested in the environmental movement of the 1970s.
This post had me pull out my copy of poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins collection, which has his journals at the back (poetry in the first half). He also drew sketches to illustrate his descriptions as he wrote. I want to send photos of these here, but it seems no pics can be posted in the comments?