braiding nature, creativity, learning, and community

Hi, I’m Alma.

I offer

  • guided nature walks

  • nature journaling workshops

  • nature inspired art

  • A person wearing a brown cap sits on a wooden landing sketching a waterway bordered by trees.
  • Loose watercolor landscape in greens, russets, and yellow
  • A person in a broad brimmed hat stands with a sketchbook in front of a tall grasses sketching.
  • a loose floral painting of yellow flag iris in front of a soft green background, small watercolor palette and water brush top of the frame
  • a sketchbook page of line drawings, mostly squiggles, some of bees, in front of strawberry leaves
  • small sketchbook with line drawings in square frames of the distant landscape, a view finder
  • a collection of small watercolor and line drawings featuring landscapes, birds and trees on small sketchbooks.
  • a small sketchbook with a loose watercolor landscape

Why spend time outside?

a sketchbook page of small sketches of marigolds. Orange marigolds in the background.

Why learn to draw?

Drawing is not just an form of artistic expression but also a powerful tool for personal growth and development.

Why keep a Nature Journal?

My personal definition of Nature Journaling is any practice that connects you with nature and helps you process your feeling and senses.

Our nature journal can be a safe space to be creative, play, experiment, and learn; a place where we can make visible our connections between ourselves and the natural world. better understand our place IN it.

Nature Journaling, helps us tune in to our senses, experience the present moment, and access more relaxation, calm, and ease.

Gratitude and Reciprocity

A Wild Braid is located on the Occupied lands of the Duwamish Tribe and Coast Salish people. In gratitude for their stewardship of this land and the privilege of living and working in such a beautiful place, we give back through Real Rent Duwamish. We also give back through our efforts to minimize our personal impact on our natural environment both locally and globally and by encouraging others to do likewise. If you live and work in what is now called Seattle, WA, please consider participating in Real Rent Duwamish. To sign up or for more information about Real Rent Duwamish please go to https://www.realrentduwamish.org. If you live elsewhere in the world, and if you haven’t already, please consider finding out more about the Indigenous people of your area and how to support them.