It's a Giveaway... Please complete the 2026 Fall event and feedback survey to enter a drawing to win a set of blank notecards.
Lots of fun things are in planning stages for the club for Fall. I could use your input, opinions and feedback.
Deadline to complete the survey is June 15. Winner announced June 18.
June is the final month for this "season's" Nature Journaling free Meetups. Plans for Fall meetups, fieldtrips and workshops are being considered and in planning stages.
For everyone that attended meetups, I sincerely thank you for sharing your observations with me... for taking time from busy schedules to step out into nature and look closely. You sharing with me is the reason I arrange and facilitate free meetups--it warms my heart to see your journal pages--what your heart, hands and mind see and create! Sincerely, THANK YOU! ð
Also a BIG Thank You to the locations and staff that host the free meetups. Without their support, these meetups would not be possible:
I am taking the summer off from meetups to focus on family, travel, iNaturalist observations, grow my own nature journaling skills and return to writing two Substack publications: Terri Mando and Biophilia Folio, consider subscribing.
There will be few emails thru the Summer, sign up for the email list to learn about any "pop-up" events (hint: working on a teen workshop in July).
Here is the link to the Fall 2026 Event Survey to help plan--I would be grateful for your input and feedback.
Hope to see you at one of the June meetups; if not, have a wonderful summer and don't forget to step out into nature and notice something you never noticed before. Consider sharing your summer observations on the FB group--I would LOVE to see what you are noticing and journaling, OR email me.
xoxo, Terri
You are invited to a special event, an Open Farm Day, Saturday, May 2, 10am-1pm at Frogtown Flora in Eagle Rock. My friend Kathleen Ferguson created and nurtures this truely unique garden, everything grown organically. Frogtown Flora specializes in regenerative, pesticide-free, urban-farmed flowers. It is a hidden gem. In addition to flowers and plants, many local vendors will be there--at the perfect time for Mother's Day!
CADA PASO COFFEE - Coffee, Tea, and Baked Goods.
KELSEY’S FAMOUS LEMONADE
LIFE RESEARCH LAB - Handmade Soap
FLORES INSECTA - Ceramics
RUAM MITR - Thai Food
SYCAMORE HILL HERB FARM - Seedlings and Herb Bundles
THERESA CARROLL- Floral Hair Clips
KNOTWORKS - Ceramics
CANTABILE EVENTS - Harpists
HI DESERT IRIS & DAYLILY SOCIET - Iris plants
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY CHRYSANTHEMUM SOCIETY - Chrysanthemum plants.
And of course… SHADOW HILLS NATURE JOURNAL CLUB
I'll be there to not only promote nature journaling--offering packs of notecards of my nature journal art: birds, botanicals, etc.-- but also sharing my other various artistic endeavors,
Saturday, April 25, for Earth Day at McCambridge Park in Burbank, I'll be promoting Nature Journaling for "Kids of All Ages" at Stough Canyon Nature Center's booth. I'll be at the "Speaker's Corner": 10:00-10:30am: Noticing Nature with Curiosity and Wonder through Nature Journaling. 10:30-11am: Using iNaturalist to participate in Citizen Science and recording observations of wild living organisms.
April 18 10am-4pm @ Shadow Hills Artist Open Studio
10100 McBroom, Shadow Hills CA
May 2 10am-1pm @ Frogtown Flora's Open Farm Day
2824 Rock Glen Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Inclement weather, *may* meet inside. MORE INFO HERE. Link to GO/NO-GO Notice.
Stough Canyon Nature Center Inclement weather, meet inside.
Shadow Hills Artists' Showcase. 10100 McBroom, Shadow Hills CA
Promoting Nature Journaling and Nature Art
Earth Day: McCambridge Park (hosted by Burbank Eco Council)
Look for Terri at Stough Canyon's boothm abd Terri is a guest speaker from 10-11am at the "Speaker's Corner". Topics:
- Noticing Nature with Curiosity and Wonder through Nature Journaling.
- Using iNaturalist to participate in Citizen Science and recording observations of wild living organisms.
Sponsored by Burbank Public Library, Buena Vista Branch.
In this 2 hour workshop specifically for teens, we’ll create a mini nature journal that helps teach focused attention and mindfulness. We'll use author Betty Edward's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain methods through artistic expression (drawings), combined with scientific descriptions (words and numbers) to record observations. The key to developing a closer connection with nature is deliberately enhancing powers of observation and wonder. We’ll explore methods that field naturalists use to help notice more, remember their observations, and kindle further curiosity and exploration by "bringing nature in".
All supplies will be provided, and you will get a free nature journaling kit.
For teens in grades 6 - 12 only. Must pre-register.
Terri Mando has been nature journaling since 2019. Since a child, she has always been drawn to Nature. She is a Wild Wonder Foundation certified Nature Journaling Educator, using teaching methods developed by John Muir Laws; and a UC ANR Certified California Naturalist. She teaches Nature Journaling workshops, leads and facilitates outdoor meetups, and enjoys sharing her passion about recording the natural world using artistic expression and scientific methods.
