Understory/Journal

Field notes,
recorded in graphite.

An archive of every walk made for the journal — by river, by ridge, by hour. Each entry is a short slowness, a written record of what the wood was doing on the day we were there.

Total entries14 walks

CoverageSpring + Winter

First entryMarch, 2026

14 entries · sorted by date

№ 07

The Wild Reverie · Spring 2026
5 entries · 21·V to 19·IV

On the pale chartreuse of the new beech leaves, and how the path forgets its own edges.

A morning spent learning the names of the mosses, in the order they grow on a single granite shoulder.

Pravčická Ridge

The wind moves through spruce differently than through alder — a record of three afternoons listening.

Hřensko Valley

After the rain: a brief inventory of the smells the forest only lends us when it is wet.

Sleeping out, and the long blue hour between owl and thrush when the wood swaps its hands.

№ 06

Of First Thaw · Early Spring 2026
4 entries · 11·IV to 12·III

Bílá Voda Creek

The colour the snowmelt teaches a stream — a milky teal that lasts perhaps a week.

Křinice Floodplain

A list of the first birds: the thrush, then the wagtail, then the impossible flute of the warbler.

24 · III · 26

Růžovský Vrch

A morning on the basalt knob, with the valley in cold cloud below.

12 · III · 26

Děčín Forest

The first hour after dawn, walking the same path I have walked all winter, and finding it changed.

№ 05

The Quiet Cold · Winter 2025/26
5 entries · 28·II to 04·XII

Sněžnik Plateau

A morning of three temperatures: the cabin, the open snow, the lee of the spruce.

The river under three inches of ice, and the brown trout still moving beneath, like thought.

Climbing the sandstone in the last hour of light, when the rock is the colour of an old apricot.

29 · XII · 25

Pravčická Brána

The largest natural arch in Europe, and the smaller arch of breath a person makes in cold air.

04 · XII · 25

The first real snowfall of the season, and what the wood does with sound when there's a foot of it.

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