1. During Covid I took some online watercolor painting classes and enjoyed working with the paints and creating colorful art from photographs. I am now retired and have moved to a new area where I very much enjoy being outdoors, working in my garden, watching the antics of birds at our feeders and hiking at various parks. I'd like to take those painting skills I learned to the next level and apply to real life observations out in my backyard and while hiking. 2. I like the journal with drawings peeking out of boxes as a way to organize the work, and the notes about the observations and follow up research. I plan to commit to a daily observation with drawing for the next several months and see where it takes me.