Autumn Daybook for A Walk in the Woods [look. listen. make. do. ]

Hello, October!  Let's celebrate with a few ordinary acts of paying attention to the ways earth's crammed with heaven in this season.  Here's some suggestions to get you started this week, no matter where you live.

  

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Look

buy print from this source

Also: 

Mushroomtime at National Geographic

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Read

The Beautiful Changes

BY RICHARD WILBUR

One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   

The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies

On water; it glides

So from the walker, it turns

Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   

Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed   

By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;   

As a mantis, arranged

On a green leaf, grows

Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves   

Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   

They are not only yours; the beautiful changes   

In such kind ways,   

Wishing ever to sunder

Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose   

For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

Also: 

What To Look For In Autumn: Vintage Ladybird Nature Series

Poem Forest: An Audiovisual Tour 

A list of children's picture books about autumn, harvest and falling leaves

Perfect Books For Fall 

15 Books That Feel Right For Fall 

16 Vintage Kids Books for Autumn

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Listen

Also: 

Listen to my always-evolving Autumn playlist on Spotify

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Make

source

Also: 

See more nature walk art ideas on this Flickr feed

Make a pine cone owl 

Make acorn owls 

How to paint acorns 

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Watch

Bare from Helen Dallat on Vimeo.

Also: 

Andy Goldsworthy - Autumn Works at Storm King Park, USA

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Do

Leaf Gathering Field Trip, 1963

source

Also:

Learn to identify trees in fall and winter with your child

Top tips to introduce children to woodland with an autumn walk

A detailed guide to photographing fall foliage

4 fabulous autumnal walks in the UK

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