Celebrating the Start of Year 3 in My Perpetual Journal

—and Looking Back at Years 1 and 2

🎺 Doot, do-do-DOOOOO! That’s the trumpet fanfare of success—announcing that during the week of September 24-30, 2024, I started Year 3 of my Perpetual Journal! 🥳 That means that every week for the past two years, I created art and text for my Perpetual Journal!!! Go me! 🎉

Here’s the first week of Year 3 in my PJ. You see this page contains art & text entries from 2022, 2023, and 2024!

Perpetual Journal, week of Sep. 24-30: Mexican Bird of Paradise Seedpods (2024); Gambel’s Quail & Ocotillo (2023); Cloudless Sulphur Larva (2022)

To celebrate my milestone, I created this video showing all 52 pages of my Perpetual Journal, in chronological order, with my Year 1 and Year 2 entries!

In my first two years of keeping a Perpetual Journal I created art and text entries for 108 different subjects! The reason that number is 108 instead of 104 (52 weeks x 2 years) is that in 4 different weeks, I had so much yard excitement I was forced to illustrate two subjects, not just one! 😁

Why I Love Keeping a Perpetual Journal

Keeping a weekly Perpetual Journal is a positive practice for me for many reasons including:

• Looking for subjects for my PJ is a great "excuse" to learn more about natural history topics that pique my interest.

• It makes me want to look for something new and different in the natural world, each week, that I haven’t featured in my PJ yet.

• It’s an excellent nudge for me to create (and finish!) at least one piece of art every week.

I look forward to sharing my Year 3 PJ pages with you this coming year!

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