Our Nature

Like a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) flitting out of a thicket of pine, we were surprised to see this Original Kraft Memo Book appear in the Sunday New York Times Travel Section a couple weeks ago. Thanks to the Wirecutter crew for including us in their rundown of birding gear.

Mentionables

“If you’re still wearing cargo pants, then you can probably tote a solid 30 of these at any given time, allowing you to reach Stephen King-levels of daily output on birds or kettle ponds or whatever you find out there in the field.” — Reviewgeek’s Pocket Notebooks for On-the-Go Notes.

Mark Wilson at Fast Company, on our new National Park Series, “The stunning artwork captures the golden age of U.S. nature conservation and exploration in the 1930s and ’40s, when the parks developed stunning posters to promote their wilderness.”

Jan Halvarson at Poppytalk and Bill McCool at The Dieline featured the series recently, and for Chris Gonzales of Tools & Toys, “...half the fun of writing these posts four times a year is getting to watch the newest video they’ve come up with.” That’s half the fun of making them too. Check out “Synchronicity,” shot at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park a few weeks ago.