Field Notes

Dated observations with room for sketches and photographs, in the tradition of the field notebook. Good for a patch you walk often, a season, a garden, or a single species you've decided to pay attention to for a year.

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What's in it

"The Same Half Mile" — 8 pages, written and laid out:

1. The Same Half Mile
2. The Patch
3. February
4. Sketch or photograph — 14 February
5. June
6. A patch you visit under duress gets visited four times. A patch on your way to the shops gets visited two hundred.
7. The path in autumn
8. What a Year Taught Me

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