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This handsome garden journal guides beginners and experts alike through five years of planning and organizing a garden. Informative tips, quotations, personal anecdotes, and a special section for children make this easy-to-use workbook an essential companion for any gardener. The extensive records section is the perfect way to track all your planning, planting, and plant care so that past efforts in the garden will never be in vain. Using and reviewing this functional journal will ensure that you will soon be enjoying the full fruits of your labor. Sections include Planning the Garden, Planting, Plant Care, Plant Inventory, and a "Potpourri" of other items.
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Gardener's Journal.......2001-07-19
This is a beautiful book full of delightful illustrations. What's not to like about Mary Engelbreit? Although it would make a nice gift, I don't recommend it for a practical record-keeping tool. It was described as a "functional workbook" but is in fact, a hardcover bound book which is too nice to be taken outdoors into the garden. If you are looking for a nice keepsake record or gift for someone who loves Mary Engelbreit, then this is your book.
Second Time Around.......2000-11-16
I lived in my previous home 22 years and used this journal to keep track of newly planted flowers and trees. I found it easy to use and a delight to browse through. It was quite helpful as a reference tool when I recently sold my home. I was able to tell the new owners what I planted, when it was planted and showed them the layout of my yard in my gardners journal. I am buying a second one for my new home,which is being bulit. I'm looking forward to utilizing my second journal, and browsing through it in the years to come. I highly recommend this book!!
the perfect gadener's journal........2000-05-15
I love the gardeners journal, I have used it for the past six years and filled it with everything that happens in the garden, Grandchildren helping with planting, dates of trees being planted, birds that visit. plus every poem I find on gardening,cartoons,photos,etc. anything to do with the garden goes into this book. there is lots of space for journal keeping plus lots of different categories to urge you on. my copy of the gardeners journal has become a treasured history for our family.
The Mary Engelbreit Gardener's Journal is a must have !.......2000-05-09
Mary Engelbreit has given us a great way to keep up with our Gardens. Instead of a blank page journal,This book has pages for you to fill in about your climate& conditions, a grid for your old garden as well as grids for you to draw your future gardens. She has included a page for pictures of the old garden and your new one! A must have for any gardener who wants to tend to and keep up with all thats done to their garden on a week to week basis. She has included pages to write down monthly summaries and planting records of annuals,perennials, fruits and everything to do with gardening. There is even a place for your thoughts on other peoples gardens! Illustrated by her ever famous colourful drawings, this book allows you room to plan and dream. As Mary writes," a garden is always a work in progress." And she has provided the journal for our canvases of soil!
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Reveling in the wonders of nature doesn’t have to be reserved for vacation. By simply taking a few minutes to look up and observe the hawks hovering over their nest at the top of a city apartment dwelling, or to look down and note the variety of weeds growing in a small patch of earth, or just to glance through the window and appreciate the shapes of the clouds moving by, anyone can connect with nature—anywhere, anytime.
Clare Walker Leslie, author of the bestselling book
Keeping a Nature Journal, has spent 25 years teaching and showing people how simple and rewarding it is to notice and record local nature. Nothing is more inspiring than the pages of her nature journals, which feature her daily recordings of small, but amazing natural events she’s seen while walking the dog, sitting in a park with her children, or driving around city streets.
Drawn to Nature features a selection of Leslie’s journal pages, arranged to inspire the reader to do as she does: look up, look down, look out and around, bring bits of nature indoors to observe and study, or take your eyes for a walk around the neighborhood. Using a combination of quick, impressionistic watercolors with more detailed pen and pencil drawings, along with the written word, Leslie invites readers to share in the pleasure of her nature watching, and to experience the joy of seeing and connecting with nature wherever they live, amidst the whirl of daily life.
For journal keepers, nature lovers, birdwatchers, artists, and anyone interested in using nature as a source for self-reflection or meditation, this book will be a welcome companion and source of inspiration.
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Drawn to Nature Through the Journals of Clare Walker Leslie.......2006-09-22
Nice book. Used it to teach nature journaling at a children's camp this summer. Compact, good example of "how to" journal.
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Gardening requires time and planning.
My Texas Garden: A Gardener's Journal is the perfect planning tool for anyone who enjoys and wants to improve their garden. It is arranged by week and is not dated so you can start journaling at any time of the year. There are weekly tips on each page, as well as space to record notes, such as "Garden Observations," "What's the Weather Like?" and "What Have I Planted/Transplanted?" Each week also features a page to record any notes you want to add in order to personalize your journal.
My Texas Garden: A Gardener's Journal is a perfect gift for anyone who enjoys America's favorite leisure pastime.
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My Texas Garden: A Gardener's Journal (My Gardener's Journal).......2007-01-17
I have used this journal for five years. It is so helpful to be able to review past successes and failures. It is divided into 4 weeks per month so each week actually is a bit longer than 7 days. The book includes information on plants, climate and has helpful hints as you move through the year. It is well worth the search to get one of these out of print journals.
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- Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone
- Great story...
- We're never alone, even when we're by ourselves
- It's all about remembering
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Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone
John Daniel
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In November of 2000, after the presidential election but before the final results had been handed down by the Supreme Court, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a remote location in Oregon's Rogue River Canyon, and quit civilization. The strictures were severe with no two-way human communication — not even with his wife — and no radio, no music, not even his cat. He would isolate himself in a cabin sure to be snowed in soon after his arrival, intent on hearing no human voice but his own until spring thawed the road. This experiment in solitude was an attempt to clarify his identity while pursuing daily life without the distractions of the world at large. Daniel had spent a week or two alone before, but this would be an entirely new challenge, and as he drove off into the mountains he felt a fear-tinged freedom. Rogue River Journal chronicles his journey in solitude, a season of memory, and his search for a coherent place to stand on the earth.
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Hot and cold.......2006-11-25
The book has four themes: journal and musings while in the Oregon wilderness, auto biography, and father's biography. It's tough to write an interesting journal - face it, most lives aren't that interesting. Daniel has led an interesting life, but not that interesting. I enjoyed spending time with him in the wilderness, became bored with his reflections on his self-absorbed youth, and had to go for my own solitary walk to escape his musings on current politics - sorry, not interested in ruminations on Bill Clinton and Monica, the decriminalization of drugs, and the merits of Bush and Gore.
The sections on his father and the labor movement were fascinating and hope that Daniel can work through the emotional issues enough to write a full, more dispassionalte biography.
There are plenty of great nuggets to mine here, for example his experience as a choker in Washington forest, and having many fathers, that make the book worth reading. But often I could almost hear Franz Daniel saying, that's enough John, now get out and DO something.
Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone.......2006-10-02
I was encouraged to read this book by the cover quote from Mary Oliver and was rewarded appropriately. A beautifully written, thoughtful journey of self discovery. And a special gift at the end for anyone exploring their own path in becoming a writer, the author offers insight and direction that resonates as true.
Great story..........2006-08-25
This is a great 'get-away' book. It conveys what it must really be like to be alone in the wilderness for months, in a beautiful place, and the journey of a person's thoughts without the distractions of modern life. It also is a powerful story about the author's relationship with his father. Highly recommended.
We're never alone, even when we're by ourselves.......2005-08-01
I loved this book, and I'm glad the author brought us along on his journey. I have often wondered what it would be like to take off for awhile, and leave the bustle of everyday life behind.
From reading I discovered that I would never really be alone, because all of the people that I have been fortunate to know have shaped my life. They are part of me, and hopefully I am part of them. Our friends and family are there in spirit all of time - good and bad. It all makes up a portion of the fabric which is us, which makes nothing bad. It's all good.
The natural setting for the adventure is top-notch, and I do plan on exploring the Rogue River. I certainly need to bring my fly-rod.
Thanks for sharing your life with us, John.
It's all about remembering.......2005-06-06
Poet and nonfiction writer John Daniel spent four and a half months living by himself in a cabin in the Rogue River canyon of southwestern Oregon. Though his original intent was to go there to write, he did some nature observation and terrain exploration as well. He chose to make his retreat during the winter of 2000-2001, beginning just after election day. We who were stuck back here in civilization can only envy his self-made cocoon of quiet, blissfully removed from the incessant media analysis of the Bush-Gore-Florida quandry. We can merely shake our heads, remembering.
Memory comes into play quite a bit here. After taking care of his immediate needs and taking in the natural world around him, Daniel spends much of his alone time considering the past. Or two pasts, really: his father's and his own. Something he sees or thinks about at the cabin will remind him of something else from the past, and he follows that tangent. He writes about his father and traces the man's work in the American labor movement as well as his struggle with alcoholism. At the same time, he reveals much about his own life and about growing up in a 1960s culture that was both anti-Vietnam and pro-drugs. "Rogue River Journal" is as much about Daniel's voyage of self-discovery as it is a temporary escape from society. By the end of his sojourn, it seems as if he has come to terms with all of it: his relationship with his father, his own varied and sometimes illegal activities of his younger days, his writing career, even the choice to enforce this self-imposed confinement. Daniel gets *very* personal, yet this is not a pure autobiography. It's funny, it's sad, it's thought-provoking, it's Life.
Daniel writes, "I thought I might find two books here -- one about the experience of solitude, the other the story of my coming of age and my father. From the start though, the two wanted to loop and weave together, and I saw no reason, and see none now, to discourage their union." (p. 301) The result honors both men. Obviously Franz Daniel passed the story-telling gene onto his son John. He has a knack for offering vivid descriptions and the tales to go with them, knowing just when to bring one segment to a temporary close so that we'll want to turn the page to discover what happened next. Baby Boomer readers will have no problem reminiscing on their own, inspired by Daniel's candid ruminations. This book is more contemplative than most "Walden" wannabees.
John Daniel uncovers two truths for us: We need occasional solitude in order to understand who we are as individuals. And we also need distance from the past in order to comprehend its contribution to our personalities and lives. Thanks for the reminders, John!
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RHS Five Year Gardener's Journal (Rhs)
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Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln
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With space to record your garden's developing pleasures over five years, this record book is the perfect gift for any gardener. The Gardener's Five Year Record Book provides a central store for all the horticultural notes you will ever need to make, dispensing with those scraps of paper that all gardeners seem to accumulate. The record
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Journal Shortcoming.......2007-02-08
Maybe it doesn't matter to you but I prefer a five-year journal that's organized such that there's a space available for an entry each day. I was disappointed when I received the RHS Journal only to find one relatively small vertical space for an entire week. The journals I used for the past 10 years were organized on a daily basis but I could not find those journals in print.
Book Description
Gardening requires time and planning.
My Ohio Garden: A Gardener's Journal is the perfect planning tool for anyone who enjoys and wants to improve their garden. It is arranged by week and is not dated so you can start journaling at any time of the year. There are weekly tips on each page, as well as space to record notes, such as "Garden Observations," "What's the Weather Like?" and "What Have I Planted/Transplanted?" Each week also features a page to record any notes you want to add in order to personalize your journal.
My Ohio Garden: A Gardener's Journal is a perfect gift for anyone who enjoys America's favorite leisure pastime.
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"àa rich and fitting tribute." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"With previously unpublished journal entries and letters, this volume captures the original mountain man's final trek." -OUTSIDE
"I am now writing up some notes, but when they will be ready for publication I do not know... It will be a long time before anything is arranged in book form." These words of John Muir, written in June 1912 to a friend, proved prophetic. The journals and notes to which the great naturalist and environmental figure was referring have languished, unpublished and virtually untouched, for nearly a century. Until now. Here edited and published for the first time, John Muir's travel journals from 1911-12, along with his associated correspondence, finally allow us to read in his own words the remarkable story of John Muir's last great journey.
Leaving from Brooklyn, New York, in August 1911, John Muir, at the age of seventy-three and traveling alone, embarked on an eight-month, 40,000-mile voyage to South America and Africa. The 1911-12 journals and correspondence reproduced in this volume allow us to travel with him up the great Amazon, into the jungles of southern Brazil, to snowline in the Andes, through southern and central Africa to the headwaters of the Nile, and across six oceans and seas in order to reach the rare forests he had so long wished to study. Although this epic journey has received almost no attention from the many commentators on Muir's work, Muir himself considered it among the most important of his life and the fulfillment of a decades-long dream.
John Muir's Last Journey provides a rare glimpse of a Muir whose interests as a naturalist, traveler, and conservationist extended well beyond the mountains of California. It also helps us to see John Muir as a different kind of hero, one whose endurance and intellectual curiosity carried him into far fields of adventure even as he aged, and as a private person and family man with genuine affections, ambitions, and fears, not just an iconic representative of American wilderness.
With an introduction that sets Muir's trip in the context of his life and work, along with chapter introductions and a wealth of explanatory notes, the book adds important dimensions to our appreciation of one of America's greatest environmentalists. John Muir's Last Journey will be must reading for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature, natural history, and related fields, as well as for naturalists and armchair travelers everywhere.
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Good.....but.......2006-11-03
Muir's journals were good but I didn't care for the introduction to the journals in each chapter by the author. The intro's went into way to much background detail. I would have been fine with less intro.
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The American Gardener's Journal
Brian Bixley
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Provincial Families in the Renaissance
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Historical writing on the Renaissance has usually focused on the social extremes that co-existed in the great metropolitan centers--on either elites or the underclass. As a result, the world of the middling families and provincial societies remains largely unexplored. Daily experiences in the lesser cities are, however, no less rich and revealing than those of Florence, Venice, and Milan. In addition, writes historian James Grubb, these experiences offer new perspectives from which to reassess familiar assumptions about domestic life in the fifteenth century.
Based on memoirs and other records left by thirteen merchant families from the Veneto cities of Verona and Vincenza, Provincial Families of the Renaissance is an engrossing study of daily lives that have until now been overlooked by scholars. Grubb examines the attitudes and experiences of families undistinguished in their modest means and local ambitions from the majority of their compatriots, uncovering a detailed historical landscape rich in social obligations, commercial activities, and religious beliefs.
Grubb's comprehensive analysis of his subjects' compelling, if inconspicuous, lives investigates every significant aspect of private experience during the Renaissance: marriage, birth, death, household relations, work, land, social status, and spirituality. In reconstructing provincial life in the Veneto, Grubb discovers in his subjects an independence of mind that mediated their reception of metropolitan ideologies far more than the historiography of the Renaissance might suggest. These "unremarkable" provincials were agents of their own destiny, influenced in equal measures by prevailing attitudes, local customs, and personal convictions.
"James Grubb is exploring new terrain in this book. Distinguished by its clarity and eloquence, this is a superior work of historical writing and analysis that merits comparison with the best monographs on the social history of Renaissance Italy."--Gene Brucker, University of California at Berkeley
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Title: Blood and Belief: Family Survival and Confessional Identity Among the Provincial Huguenot Nobility.
Author: Maarten Ultee
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Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1996
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v49
Issue: n1
Page: p142(2)
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Title: A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State.
Author: Laurie Nussdorfer
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Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v51
Issue: n3
Page: p957(2)
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Title: Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto.
Author: Federica Ambrosini
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Renaissance Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1998
Publisher: Renaissance Society of America
Volume: v51
Issue: n3
Page: p961(2)
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