Wild Wonder

The Wild Wonder Conference is going on at the moment. Numenius gave me a conference pass as a birthday present and this year they are spreading it out over several days instead of having concurrent sessions, which is great. It’s been happening for several years now, the brainchild of Bay Area artist and educator John Muir Laws, who has been a major part of the nature journaling wave which is now worldwide and who came and taught a bird drawing workshop for us at Yolo Audubon over 20 years ago. The keys to nature journaling: see; observe; wonder; associate (ISIWIRMO=I see, I wonder, it reminds me of).

Nature journaling is a practice I return to intermittently and every time I do I wish I’d been more consistent. Yesterday I was able to take a workshop by Grant Snider on poetry nature comics; this intersection was an intriguing challenge for me. Naturally I tackled hummingbirds, since that is very much where my interest is these days.