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Nature Surprises Journal Prompt

Nature Journaling

Prompt 1

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Nature Surprises!

 

Nature can amaze us in big and small ways every hour of every day.  This poem from the Japanese poet, Matsuo captures one of the ways a beautiful but small natural moment or nature surprise can inspire you.

 

Sitting at my desk on a cold, dark,

December afternoon, I look out the window 

And see a squirrel starting back at me.

 

I just smile.  I think he smiles back,

Shakes his tail, and leaps off the roof.

 

What fun!  I feel refreshed.

 

What can be the subject of a natural surprise you ask?

 

  • Birds

  • A beautiful or unusual sky

  • A flower

  • An insect

  • Tree shape or color

  • An interesting rock

  • Or any sound from nature

  • Really anything that is part of nature

 

In your nature journal you can record nature surprises in many different ways like:

 

  • Record a daily nature surprise with the date, time and location for a week, a month a year, whatever inspires you.

  • Draw a picture or make a collage of a nature surprise.

  • Write a poem or a story about your natural surprise.

dragonfly
heron
waterfall
Clover Leaves
Grass and Flowers
Snowflake
Wild Flowers
Deer
MonarchinGarden
nature girl
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