I’ve nearly completed the second year of weekly entries in my perpetual journal. Loving this project 😊
Week 51
Category: Uncategorized
looking closer
I thought I knew the eucalypts on our block! I went out to observe and record the rate of fruit (gumnut) drop, and to my surprise learned that adjacent trees are actually different in significant ways.
This process, and learnings, delighted me … and engendered even more questions, to be explored in the future.
Hippeastrum
My lovely neighbour gives me one of these every December. When checking how to spell ‘amaryllis’ I learned that it’s actually in the genus Hippeastrum. Learn something new every day!
Penstemon centranthifolius
I’m pretty sure these were scarlet buglers (Penstemon centranthifolius) in great profusion in the northern part of Cheeseboro Canyon. We’ll have to go back in spring to be sure.
vanalden cave
What motivates some people to take spray paint to a site of awesome natural beauty? I will never understand how that can feel good. I thought this part of the cave looked like a sad or angry face frowning down on the graffiti.
cyclamen
burnt hills
Bodie and I did a few laps of Legacy Park this morning, past all the mosaic statues. (Wow, looking at those photos I’m delighted by how different the park looks after 14 years of native plant growth.) We viewed the burned hills above town—the Franklin fire came right down to City Hall. We are so lucky more structures weren’t lost. Thank you, firefighters!
seasonality journal
Kate Rutter is one of my favourite people in the nature journaling community. She’s smart, creative, generous, kind, and “rambunctiously experimental”. I enjoyed her zoom session today on creating a concertina journal to record daily data relating to weather, day length, moon phase, temperature, precipitation and more. Not sure if I want to do it myself for 2025, but I’m thinking about it.
tired girl
not what I had in mind
I won’t call it a sewing fail, maybe just give it a C- or D+. I thought I was making an elegant layering piece, but instead it feels like a uniform. Luckily the fabric was from the remnant rack, so only cost a few bucks.
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