The first photos here are from My Girl's Nature Journal. She's been keeping one since 2003, but our efforts until this summer have been intermittent. This year one of our focus areas for school is Nature Study, and so we have become much more active with our Journals. It's wonderful to see the pages fill with glorious colours, thoughts, notes, and shapes.
Entry following a nature walk with friends.
Trying out the dry-brush technique at the WHHE meeting. She had come along to help with serving tea and with set up and take down for the painting time.
A Chalk Maple leaf from our back yard. I had sat at the picnic table to work on mine (at bottom of this post) while the children played in the yard. Soon they were all sitting with me, painting leaves. My Girl is the only one who stuck it out to complete a specimen, though. Little Man and Brown-Eyed Boy were quickly lured back to the bikes and garden tools.
Monarch butterfly chrysalis and Milkweed caterpillar from our monarch rearing and tracking kit
This one is from my Nature Journal. I like to add more writing to my page, describing a bit of the setting where the specimen was found or other details that I've learned about the specimen since beginning to observe it. I'd like to add poetry, too, but I haven't gotten that far yet.
Chalk Maple leaf from our back yard done using dry-brush watercolour technique
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