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Tom Myers's avatar

Have you ever used a Hobonichi ? I have a 5 year going (on year 3 now) and mostly document birds, flowers, bugs, weather events, etc. It’s not surprising (but still totally mind blowing) when the same natural cycles happen at the same time each year

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Tender Thickets's avatar

I do not know about Hobonichi - I will have to check it out!!

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Toni McLellan's avatar

Have you heard of phenology? https://www.usanpn.org/about/phenology It's the discipline of noting these incremental changes among plant and animal life. I've been informally doing it in a journal for a couple of years now at my place (we've been at this home 5 years now). I understand the sadness of letting go of a place, especially the growing things.

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Tender Thickets's avatar

Whoaaaa, "nature's calendar"! I did not know this name for it - thank you for sharing it with me! The growing things are the hardest to let go - it feels like I'm abandoning them. But I hope their new stewards will be loving and attentive, and I know there's more seeds to be planted in my future.

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Toni McLellan's avatar

IKR? I was blown away when I found there was an entire discipline around paying attention to the natural world around us. 🤓

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