Save the Date - Saturday, September 18

Peggy will host a Journey Daybook Adventure at the Dakota Winery on an unusual Saturday so that more alumni may be able to attend. We will meet at 11 AM at the Winery at 14365 NW Highway 19, about 2 miles north of Chiefland FL. Be sure to bring a bag lunch. We will have a picnic in the grove.

The Small Boat Meet in Cedar Key

Peggy Herrick and Carol Pattillo will host this JDB Adventure on Saturday, May 1st. It is unusual to offer an alumni gathering over the weekend, but we decided to take advantage of the many small, handmade boats as subject matter for our pages. As usual, the Adventure will begin at 11 AM. Please bring a bag lunch, a wide-brimmed hat, and a chair. We will meet at the western end of Third Street at the waterfront by the Faraway Inn. If you are interested in drawing while paddling, kayaks will be provided. If you wish to draw boats and the water from land, you can work in the shade and enjoy the boats and their multicolored sails.

If you can join us, please call Peggy at 352.543.6127.

April and May Alumni Adventures

Tentatively, three more Adventures are scheduled for JDB members who have attended at least one retreat. These are: 16 April 2010 in Gainesville at the Tench Building, where artists rent studios from the City of Gainesville. Anne Seraphine is our hostess, and we will be making journey daybook pages inside from a posed model. Contact Anne if you wish to attend this Adventure.

The formal May Adventure will happen at the Florida Folk Life Festival in White Springs, FL on Friday the 28th.  If you have never been to this festival read about it at this link. Peggy is the hostess for this Adventure.

Usually, on the first weekend of May, there is a Small Boat Meet that occurs in the waters off Cedar Key. This meet is not formally organized, but in the many years it has occurred here, hundreds of small, exquisitely crafted sailboats have provided a ready seascape for painting and making journey daybook pages. I think that it would be wonderful to plan a Saturday outing to Cedar Key. We could eat lunch together and have our usual review in the afternoon. If Saturday is not good, we could gather at our usual Friday time.

Alumni Adventure at Rainbow Springs State Park

On Friday, 19 March, we will meet at the concession stand inside the park.

Summer Weekly Adventures Amended

At our Journey Daybook board meeting last week, it was decided to reschedule our Alumni Adventures to once-monthly outings. A specific journey daybook keeper will be in charge of each monthly excursion, and the plans for these excursions will be posted here. We made this change because so many people scatter during the summer, and it is difficult to gather people and organize journeys. Informal outings may continue to happen on Fridays. If you are interested in these, please contact Sue Reichert or Peggy Herrick.

Summer Weekly Adventures

Although it is sometimes difficult to work outside during the hot Florida summer months, last summer a stalwart crew met nearly every week to make journey daybook pages. We hope that this summer’s Friday and Saturday excursions look interesting for JDB Alumni. Here is our posted schedule through July. Notice that we have included some “inside” destinations.

8 May - Break

15 May -  Kayaking in Cedar Key FL

23 May (Saturday) - Haile Plantation Farmers’ Market, Gainesville FL

29 May - Cedar Key FL - Board Meeting?

5 June - Poe Springs, High Springs FL

12 June - Cedar Key FL

19 June - Harn Museum, Gainesville FL

26 June - Micanopy FL

4 July (Saturday) - Clamamerica Festival, Picnic & Fireworks, Cedar Key FL

2009 Weekly Adventures through April 2009

While we drove to New Orleans, Sue and I made a tentative schedule of Journey Daybook Alumni Adventures expending into late spring. The times are the same: we assemble at 1 PM for a picnic and at 2 to work.

6 March - New Orleans, Lousianna

13 March - Fanning Springs State Park

20 March - Cedar Key Big Dock

27 March - Melrose FL

3 April - Melrose FL

10 April -

17 April - Cedar Key Arts Festival

24 April - Art Walk, Gainesville FL

2 May - Cedar Key Small Boat Meet

2009 Weekly Adventures

Below are the tentative Journey Daybook Alumni Adventures scheduled for the first 2 months of the New Year. Each of these adventures will be preceded by a picnic lunch at the site. We assemble at approximately 1 PM.

2 January - The Dudley Farm State Park, Newberry FL

9 January - Sand Spit Beach Park, Cedar Key FL

16 January - Shell Mound County Park, Cedar Key FL

23 January - The Thomas Center, Gainesville FL

31 January - Haile Plantation, Gainesville FL

6 February - The Lower Suwannee Wildlife Refuge, Cedar Key FL

13 February - City Park and Beach, Cedar Key FL

20 February - Kanapaha Gardens, Gainesville, FL

27 February - An HIstoric House in Rosewood, FL

November Cedar Key Cruise

Note the information about this cruise on the main BLOG page. Be sure to contact Peggy Herrick in order to reserve your place immediately.

Weekly Adventures

23 September 2008

Each Friday, Journey Daybook Keepers, who have attended at least one JDB Adventure, are invited to make journey daybooks at a changing site in the North Florida area. Sue Reichert and Peggy Herrick coordinate these weekly opportunities. We aim to gather at 12 noon. We bring lunch, enjoy a picnic together, and work until 4 PM, with a short time for sharing of our pages.  Please call or write Sue or Peggy for suggestions and more information. The tentative schedule for upcoming Alumni Adventures is:

26 September - Dudley Farm State Park, Newberry FL

3 October - A “secret” spring near Cedar Key

10 October - A Landing in the Lower Suwannee Wildlife Refuge

17 October -”The Pumpkin Patch,” Cedar Key (the Cedar Key Seafood Festival weekend!)

24 October - Usher Landing on the Suwannee River, Chiefland FL cancelled because of bad weather

31 October - Halloween: We will not meet

7 November - Usher Landing on the Suwannee River, Chiefland FL

14 November - Alumni Cruise, Cedar Key FL (See above)

22 November (Saturday) - Saturday Farmers’ Market, Haile Plantation, Gainesville FL

28 November - Hedy Havel’s Farm, Chiefland

5 December - at the Christmas Studio Tour, Cedar Key FL

12 December - Kanapaha Botanical Garden, Gainesville FL

- HOLIDAY BREAK -

(ADVENTURES FOR 2009 TO BE POSTED IN MID-DECEMBER)