Journaling as I hike. The outline of the sketch took me a few seconds. A quick wash of green filled in the land, and some blue gouache gave color to water and sky (the waters above and the waters below). I added notes when we got home from the hike. It could have been a photograph but I forget photographs so quickly. This one sketch—combined with the willingness to keep adding notes—becomes both a record of a fine walk in the woods, and an opportunity to recall and deepen my memories.

Watercolor sketch depicting a landscape with labeled ponds and mountains, featuring handwritten notes describing the scenery and observations from Buck’s Ledge, Maine.