This nature journal was discovered after Ms. Holden's death. For the year of 1906 she recorded her observations of birds, flowers, plants, trees and fungi. She explored the countryside of Olton, Warwickshire by walking, cycling, and sometimes by train. She filled the pages with poetry that reflected the month, mottos for each month, and mostly with journal entries of her observations and beautiful illustrations. Sadly, she died at the age forty-nine when she reached for chestnut tree buds and drowned in the Thames River.
Reading this journal made me long to have the leisure time to walk outside each day with the intent of recording observations of God's marvelous creation!
-Borrowed from the library.
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