While gingerly investigating the nettle, I managed to get stung under my chin. The perils of nature journaling!
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Tag: smmnjc
Charmlee
Our sixth nature journal club meetup was our biggest and (arguably) best yet! Certainly our best lunch spread—we are totally rocking the picnic buffet. Seventeen of us enjoyed perfect winter weather (70° and sunny) at charming Charmlee Wilderness Park in western Malibu. Such a joy.
smmnjc meetup
Lovely meetup of the Santa Monica Mountains Nature Journal Club today at Temescal. The cherry on top was seeing my first Townsend’s warbler. I realise that it looks like the bird is the answer to the “Big chomps by whom?” question, but the two are unrelated.
little den
nature journaling at the tide pools
We had our third SMMNJC meetup today, and I’m still a-glow, hours later. Fourteen of us met at low tide at Malibu Lagoon State Beach to share a picnic, then marvel at sea hares, anemones, limpets, shrimp, crabs, octopuses, patterns in the sand, seabirds, and so much more. Near the end of our time together, I quoted the immortal words of Kurt Vonnegut, “Well if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” My heart is full.
mystery feather
I had the best time at the first meetup of the Santa Monica Mountains Nature Journal Club. Thirteen of us (including some NJ newbies) got together at gorgeous King Gillette Ranch for nature journalling, food, art supply tryouts, and brainstorming. Can’t wait to do it again next month!
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