– Hey y’all, I’m Liz Clayton Fuller. I’d like to invite you to join me for my course on nature journaling and field sketching.

– [Shayna] I noticed this dragonfly that was sitting on the ground.

– [Margaret] And I stared at the hummingbirds for an hour and a half.

– [D.J.] I just happened to notice a spider actually capture an insect in its web.

– [Holly] It stopped, and I looked a little bit closer. It was a mink with a fish as large as itself in its mouth.

– [Shayna] Nature journaling is

– [D.J.] documenting things that you’re experiencing in nature.

– [Holly] It’s a really good way to understand the natural world a little more.

– [Jewel] It’s really taught me how to observe nature.

– [Shayna] It’s drawing. It’s annotating. It’s writing down observations.

– [Margaret] It’s a thought process ’cause you’re studying when you’re looking. And you’re going back and forth.

– [Jewel] It’s very easy to go into like, a time warp. And then, all of a sudden, you just spent four hours on drawing a starfish.

– [D.J.] Sketching is a really nice way to just reflect and relax.

– [William] It’s a lotta fun, like looking at something and being able to reproduce it on paper.

– [Jewel] Do you have to be good at drawing? No.

– [William] It’s about the progress and not really about how good you are coming in.

– [Jewel] It’s the memory that comes out of it that’s most important.

– [Shayna] I just feel like a kid again, just discovering the wonders of nature.

– [Holly] I feel creative when I’m nature journaling.

– [Margaret] It’s for you.

– [Shayna] You just starting putting your thoughts on paper and see where it goes.

– [Liz] I hope you’ll join me for this course. I can’t wait to share it with you.