I’m requiring my students to keep nature journals based on what they see on our campus, so I am doing the same. Here are today’s entries from my journal.

These sketches represent three locations on campus: the orchard my students and colleagues and I planted; the outdoor classroom my students and I designed and built; and the campus pond, which is used by many of us as a campus-as-living-lab teaching site.🎨

A hand holds two nature journals on the lap of someone wearing denim pants and sitting on stone with moss in the cracks. The journals depict sketches of moss and apples, and have descriptions of the moss and apples, along with questions about the scenes. A sketchbook has a rough sketch and watercolor of pickerelweed along with a description of the location and date. The sketchbook is on top of several philosophy books.