HeyJaredPaula Borchardt - Visual Storyteller
Adding positivity to your week by sharing my art and stories about natural history (and sometimes other subjects that catch my eye).
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Rare (For Us) Flowers (opens the original)
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Writing this newsletter-post* made me contemplate the derivation of the abbrev inspo. Where and when did this abbrev enter our collective vocabulary?From my in-depth research 🙂 I discovered inspo has been in use for over 20 years, especially in social media. The Cambridge Dictionary officially added it in 2025.But enough about words for the moment—let’s get to some art.Hubby & I have one(!) Coulter Hibiscus growing in our yard. It’s a native wildflower that blooms only once or twice a year, with
Tiny Eggs, Tiny Insects & a Tiny Post (opens the original)
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Today’s post will be a tiny one, because I’m busy attending the (virtual) 8th annual Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference (more on that below).In summer Hubby & I often see rows of tiny (approx. 1.5mm long each) arthropod eggs on our windows, brick walls, and plants. This year we saw a row of 17 of these tiny eggs on a Desert Milkweed stem so I decided these were the Perpetual Journal excitement I was looking for, for that week! 😁<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://sub
Blue Cornbread & Beets, Chocolate Chips & Pizza, and Lots of Rainwater Goodness (opens the original)
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With the completion of this Illustrated Journal page, I’m celebrating another milestone! That means it’s time for another…🎺 Doot, do-do-DOOOOO! That’s the trumpet fanfare announcing that I’ve officially created Illustrated Journal pages for a whole year now! I started creating these on August 6, 2025 and the page below chronicles my exciting 😉 life through August 5, 2026! Hooray!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jPbA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl
Colorful Summer Flowers and Fruits (opens the original)
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Last week the Illustrated Journal page I shared included my chart illustrating the 2.25” rain we got over a 10-day period. Today I’m sharing my Perpetual Journal page featuring the results of that rain!<img alt="Perpetual Journal, week of Jul. 23-29: Chih
More Heat, More Rain, Good Reads and Good Food (opens the original)
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One of the challenges (and fun) for me in keeping a Perpetual Journal and Illustrated Journal is figuring out how to illustrate the same subject differently on different pages. Take, for example, the topic of our summer rains: on my PJ page I shared last week I depicted a typical monsoon storm with its sideways rain. In my IJ page below I visually represented summer rainfall with a 10-day rain chart.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kRGV!,
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