Welcome to Day 4 of 31 Days of A Sense of Place. Sundays are going to be devoted to field trips, relaxing time spent in one spot so we can visually take in its singular sense of place.

Today I’m going to take us on a field trip to a local nature park. Instead of seeing it only as it is on one day, however, we’re going to see it over five years, in every month of the year except March and June (when I haven’t visited it — have to correct that next year). Enjoy! (Click on photos for larger view.)

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January

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February

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April

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May

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July

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August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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This project is a bit like Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird, in that I’m writing about a sense of place from vantage points that may not obviously connect with each other. I’m not going to attempt to tie them together. In the end, these 31 days of looking at a sense of place may overlap, contradict, form a whole, or collapse like a flan in a cupboard, as Eddie Izzard would say. That remains to be seen. Thanks for stopping by.