Starting a Blog

One of the topics at the Natural History of Appalachia's Mountain Lake elderhostel last week was Nature Journaling. The speaker spent some time on electronic journals and encouraged us to create a nature blog. At the end of her presentation, she asked us to write a practice blog. The following is mine.

Nature Blog

Mountain Lake, Virginia

June 27, 2008

Things I saw during a five-day stay:

a smaller lake

creatures in a stream

distant mountains

a waterfall

a chestnut-sided warbler

dying hemlocks

large and small trees sharing the forest

thunderstorm passing by

This is just a moment in nature's timescale.

Since I have been writing journals on paper for some time, I decided to try setting up a real blog. I am interested in nature and archaeology, and because I am retired, I chose the title you see on the top of the page.