Lessons from leaves

Nature journaling page about leaves in my garden.

This week I've been drawing a lot of leaves. There are lots of leaves around at the minute, but by drawing them and learning about them their individual stories can be told. Stories about what tree they are from, what might have been nibbling at them, what chemical reaction is going on. This page was about seemingly ordinary leaves in my very average garden, but the process of drawing them provided a couple of hours of mindfulness and I learned something along the way. I'm hoping next year to do more teaching of Nature Noticing as I think its benefits are manifold x