Alison

1) I volunteer at a native medicinal garden with Extension Master Gardeners, but I rarely take the time to do observations. My goal is to have the luxury of time to sit, observe, and take notes, and improve my art and journaling skills so that I can keep better records of the amazing (often very tiny!) things I get to see. We are planning to add observation time to our work rotation this next year, and I hope that my notes will help increase our knowledge base about our garden and its inhabitants and visitors. 2) I really enjoyed the "boxes" in the first journaler's approach. I can relate to why she started using them, and I like the way they define the pages in her journal. 3) Since I already take and print photographs of our garden, I might include some of them in my journal along with my written and drawn/painted observations. What I paint and draw will be different from my photographs; I think they will both complement one another, though.