MetaData on the North Coast

Meta-data provides the setting and conditions for any journal entry. I included temperatures (yes – I was not in Humboldt County), wind, humidity, forecast. I used symbols that came from the Weather app on my phone (weather.com). I really like the visuals for the data. In future I will move the date from the bottom of the page where I have always put it – until learning about metadata symbols. It turns out in this journal entry the weather is the big news – I was shocked to see box elder bugs on the side of the cabin in such cold weather. Hundreds will gather over the siding in the Fall. They are colorful and I find them much more pleasant than what locals call Asian Beetles – they bite.

Name a field of science and there will be a collection of symbols to go along with the discipline. The chart below can be printed from: https://www.nj.gov/dep/seeds/wssym.htm

Are there any that you might adopt?

In Humboldt we might want to add symbols referring to tide times. I like the wind data symbols and will think about a way to adapt the oscillating graph to my journal page. These can be located: https://www.tide-forecast.com/locations/Samoa-Humboldt-Bay-California/tides/latest

There are some very interesting demonstrations of metadata on the following websites:

Christine Mauser: https://www.naturemeuse.com/journals

Roseanne Hanson: https://www.exploringoverland.com/field-arts-tutorials-list/2020/7/5/nature-journal-page-flow

Fiona Gillogly: https://www.fionasongbird.com/naturejournal.html