Tony

Your entry resonated with me, Susie. I have also enjoyed many aspects of nature for a long time and am now in my mid-70's and finding gardening and weeding and long treks in the woods to be sometimes problematic. How nice that you have company that you can support and be supported by. My wife also is a nature lover and birder, so it does help a lot to join in thee activities together. I, too have dabbled in drawing for many years and the idea of drawing things in nature always sounded exciting but beyond my reach. I have done a few birds from photos I have taken and that has been fun. But the idea of sitting in a spot for some time to observe and notice and write and draw or paint sounds very inviting. The journals presented all had components that I would include in my nature journalling journey. I like the structure of always having date, location, weather and time on the page. I like playing with box or no box. In the past, I draw shapes like boxes to provide structure and find myself excited to draw in and out of them! Drawing outside the box resonates for me! I also liked the monthly page idea that was shared towards the end of the video and want to try that out. I take many photos of nature and birds so I should have enough material to compose a page once I am ready. I like the idea of coming back to a page several times in a month to capture all that the month has offered! Here's an attempt at a towhee~