CMP Review 2025-02-01

CMP Review 2025-02-01

February 1, 2025

February is definitely the month for catkins here in NE Tennessee.

I began nature journaling when my children were young—they’re currently 22 and 20—and followed the Parents’ Review advice to leave blank pages in-between brush drawings to capture certain specimens throughout the seasons. Those blank pages drove me nuts, so I began dividing each 2-page spread into ten-day sections in order to better organize my nature journal to my personality. This has meant there’s room to come back to the same dates yearly to add another specimen. The size of my journal means it will hold approximately 5–6 years worth of entries and become a better record of my personal observations by keeping them in one place. I’ve since learned this type of nature journal is called a “perpetual journal.” While perpetual journals are usually broken down into weekly increments, mine is longer in order to fit the year according to the page count of my particular watercolor journal.

How do you organize your nature journal?

@rbaburina