I'm excited about this course because it will help me be more intentional about spending time in nature and recording my observations and adding reference information. I would love to take a dedicated trip to fill my journal but most likely it will be a collage of many different things including familiar back yard birds (I would love to capture those Blue Jay flashes!) and new tree identifications such as the willow oak in my neighbors' yard. I'm not very accomplished but shall consider this a "before" image and try hard not to self-edit.