Leaf, Crowd, Crow: A Weekly Backyard Journal

Leaf, Cloud, Crow is an illustrated journal to guide observations of nature in gardens and yards, city parks and vacant lots, or even the sky, enhanced by inspiring prompts from the author.

What do the bare branches of winter allow you to see? How does summer’s abundance provide for different wild animals, and can you find abundance in your own life? What changes have you noticed in natural habitats near you – not just from month to month, but from year to year?

Grow more attuned to all the ‘radiant things bursting forth in the darkest places, in the smallest nooks and deepest cracks of the hidden world’.

A howling love letter to the world, the story of what we’ve lost and what we can save and the abundance of wonder in our own backyard.

Who wrote this nature journal?

Margaret Renkl is an opinion editor for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. She is also founding editor of Chapter 16 (a daily literary publication in Tennessee) and a graduate of Auburn University and University of South Carolina. She lives in Nashville, USA.