Journal

Keeping a naturalist's journal becomes a way for me to connect with nature. As I take the time to pause, and record with words and pictures what I see around me, magical details unfold and I celebrate the beauty and complexity of nature. A thousand questions pop into my head leading to further exploration as a scientist and as an artist. I can go back to a journal years later and recall the sights and sounds of that special day.

When I was working as a Graphic Designer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, I served as a volunteer botanist on field trips with the museum comparing bird populations on western and eastern slopes of Colorado. I helped trap birds in mist nets and band them, but my primary responsibility was documenting the flowers by pressing specimens, photographing and painting them.

In 2000, I finished an interactive CD-ROM entitled A Naturalist's Journal of Colorado. You can see excerpts from it on the CD-ROM page.

I will continue to add to this site in the form of journal entries on the Ongoing Entries page. Check back frequently to read my stories of explorations as an artist and naturalist.