Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. You know, Charlotte Mason often talked about

adding images to our nature journal by painting them or drawing them. But what do you do if you're not

very good at painting or drawing or if you don't enjoy it very much? Can you still keep a good

nature journal?

That's what we want to talk about today.

And here to help me is my friend Karen Smith.

Karen, I am not that great at painting and drawing.

I am not either.

So we're kind of in the same boat when it comes to our nature journals.

But let's back up and say what the purpose of nature study is, and then we'll talk about how the nature journals help us get there.

And maybe that will give us the bigger picture.

Yes.

So purpose of nature study.

To cause you to stop and look at the creation and to notice differences, similarities,

how things are formed, how things move, how things eat, how they change, how they grow, all of those things that happen in nature that if we just walk right by, give them a glance, we're not going to notice.

One of the things for me with nature study is how much

observing nature causes me to praise God for what he has created. And to me, that's the ultimate in nature's

study. Yes, yes.

Charlotte talked about that, that all creation praises God.

Yes.

And we should marvel more and more as we learn it and about it more and more.

And there's much to marvel at when we stop to notice.

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