Nature Journal Prompt Looking Above

Blue sky with cumulus clouds. Photo by Donna L. Long.

For this week’s nature journal prompt, ‘above’ is the word.

Ever notice that in horror films, that danger is often above the characters (next victims)? They have to look up to save themselves.

Sometimes we forget to look up, to see the beauty above us, to predict the weather, to see birds telling us what is going on by what they are doing.

Above can refer to the stars, comets, and meteors that fill the night sky. I assembled a list of ideas for journaling to get the creative juices flows.

Nature Journal Prompts Looking Above

When I am stuck for prompts to journal about, I look in the six directions: east, west, north, south, above, below, and the center right where you are.

I think looking at what is right around you, helps with having gratitude and appreciation. Above could also mean:

looking at circumpolar stars
watching bird migration
studying twigs in winter or buds
learning the names of cloud types (wikipedia)
And looking above can mean observing the buds on trees, shrubs, and collecting phenology data
counting the birds that fly overhead
identify bird by silhouettes
track the types of clouds that form the pattern of a storm
the pattern of bare tree branches against the sky
abandoned nests in the bare winter trees
recording the sequence that trees and shrubs flower (phenology)
documenting the sequence of trees changing color in fall
identifying tree leaves by shape like the common oak leaves
identify cones hanging form evergreen trees