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Doing Planks
Loving the strange and magical beauty of plankton! Nature Journalist Janai Southworth has a microscope and hosts Pacific Plankton, a plankton-viewing livestream on Twitch. What an opportunity to take...
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New semester, new project.
This idea has been banging around in my head for a couple of years: short videos that cover the basics of a visual vocabulary. I know. (I know!) There are a lot of these videos out there. And yet,...
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What’s in my kit?
A tour of the things I commonly use in Nature journaling * During the Wild Wonder conference in 2020, I was part of a panel on what we carry. (Turns out I carry quite a bit, but many items are small....
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A “run-the-pen-dry” experiment
It’s Spring and the crushing deadlines of teaching college in a pandemic are crushing my soul. One way I renew my energy? Nature sketching. By falling in love with the details of nature, I find...
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From Raw capture to Rich memory
3 steps to a Soundscape Nature Sketch As an avid nature journaler, I love to go out into nature and draw things. Flowers! Trees! Rocks! Environments! Scenes! The richness of nature is asounding. My...
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Notes from International Nature Journaling Week, 2021
International Nature Journal Week (INJW) is an annual celebration of all things natural and journal-able. This year it spanned Tuesday, June 1 through Monday, June 7. Each day had a theme to help...
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31 Days of Leaves: #leaftober 2021
October is usually my favorite month. But this one was different. This one was hard. Instead of doing the daily #inktober* challenge and using prompts from the main project or one of the many flavors,...
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RidgeSong of Juniper Flats
In December I was in Arizona and got to visit the Mule Mountains in Cochise County. The ridge-line above Juniper Flats is fantastic…the way it catches the light and is framed by the cloud-filled sky....
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In
Last January I started volunteering at the Native Here Nursery, a project of the East Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Since I’m shifting away from a career in design and tech and...
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It’s a wrap! INJW 2023 (International Nature Journaling Week)
International Nature Journaling Week is an annual celebration of nature shared through the pages of nature journals. Learn more at International Nature Journaling Week. The first week of June marks a...
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