TT - Nature Journals

 Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures.  I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

There are so many wonderful books out there hiding on shelves so I invite you to blog about a book on your shelf, one you're reading or one you found at the library and add your post to Learning All the Time Favourite Resource Link Up. 



This week ...

My Nature Journal

• Format: Hardcover
• Number of Pages: 176
• Vendor:  
• Publishers Pajaro
• Publication Date: 2000
• ISBN: 0967245915
• Author:  Adrienne Olmstead
• Illustrator:  Adrienne Olmstead

For those of you who want a premade nature journal with step by step instructions this is the book for you!
 
From the cover: Start your lifelong adventure into nature with My Nature Journal. This book will help you ... Search for animal tracks in a woodland, Discover a speacial place in a meadow, Find aquatic insects in a stream, Explore tidepools at a seashore, Watch for nocturnal animals at twilight and much much more!

Go to Pajaro.com to view full page samples of this book.  It is available for purchase from Christianbook and Amazon.

Field Trips

• Format: Hardcover
• Number of Pages: 96
• Vendor:  
• Publishers Harper Collins Children's
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN: 978-0-688-15172-0
• Author:  Jim Arnosky
• Illustrator: Jim Arnosky

I love the simplicity and line drawings in this book. Jim's encouraging easy to follow steps make nature journaling easy to do.  Great book.

Harper Collins says: With Jim Arnosky as your guide, an ordinary hike becomes an eye-opening experience. He'll help you spot a hawk soaring far overhead and note the details of a dragonfly up close. Study the black-and-white drawings -- based on his own field research -- and you'll discover if those tracks in the brush were made by a deer or a fox.

In his celebrated style, this author, artist, and naturalist enthusiastically shares a wealth of tips. Jim Arnosky wants you to enjoy watching wildlife. He carefully explains how field marks, shapes, and location give clues for identifying certain plants and animals wherever you are. He gives hints for sharpening observational skills. And he encourages you to draw and record birds, insects, shells, animal tracks, and other finds from a busy day's watch.


Available to purchase from Amazon and Book Depository

Blessings

A day at Johannesburg Zoo

Thursday 12th of April saw me braving Johannesburg traffic on my own.  I am forever grateful for a gps unit which took me safely to my sisters place from where we left to go to the Johannesburg Zoo.
We were joined by my sister, her three special boys, my brother in law and his youngest, my nephew, Paul and Sir N.

Paul and the cousins

We spent a lovely day exploring the 55 hectare zoo seeing their wonderful collection of animals and enjoying a picnic lunch.  My sister blessed us with an interesting potato stix which we thoroughly enjoyed.

It was so much fun recognizing animals that we had studied in Expedition Earth Animals.

The old lion enclosure, gorilla enclosure and other animals.

Beautiful animals

Jock of the Bushveld Memorial and behind the scenes encounter.

The entry and some of the old building about the zoo

As usual we took loads of photographs.  I love the digital era it has made preserving your memories and experiences so very easy. 

Blessings

Destination Johannesburg

We arrived in Johannesburg on Tuesday 10 April after around hours of travel.  We were met at the airport by my sister Nadeen and her husband and three children who had made us a welcome to South Africa banner as well as my sister in law from Johannesburg as well as my sister in law from Zimbabwe.  It was wonderful to see everyone again. O Tambo International Airport has changed so much since the first time we flew internationally I did not recognize it.

We drove to T's house where we spent a wonderful day of fellowship and settling in.  It was so good to see everyone.

A little of the wildlife around the house

It was so interesting to see how they have made the cell phone towers into 'palm trees' so they blend into the area.

We spent Wednesday morning looking around the local mall and arranging cell phone connections and airtime(credit) for everyone. The afternoon was spent at my sister's place enjoying a braai (barbecue)

It's soo very good to see everyone again and seeing all the changes that have taken place in the last ten years.

Blessings
Chareen