Phenology is the study of the rhythm and cyclic changes in natural phenomena. It is a branch of study concerned with how ecological and climatic change impacts living beings. 

Phenomenology is the study of lived experience–a meaning-making philosophy centering human experience. 

An omen–a portent or presage–offers a warning sign. 

In phen(omen)ologies of you and i, I spend time with the phenology of things, paying attention to the relationship of a plant’s bloom time, in relationship to other other phenological data, such as cicada emergence, butterfly migration, bird’s dawn choruses. I’m getting curious about how a changing climate directly impacts specific plants in which I work with in my own daily life. With climate change, and season’s shifting, phenology, and the natural rhythm for many plants and animals, is disrupted. What does this mean for our ever interconnected, interdependent ecosystems and webs of life? 

phen(omen)ologies of you and i offers a container for these observations by taking the field notes, photographs, and sketches and contributing to community science initiatives through Nature’s Notebook and the National Phenology Network. By collecting, organizing, recording phenological data, information, and forecasts, the artful observations in this project contribute to natural resource management and decision-making structures. Beyond the scientific findings, phen(omen)ologies of you and I endeavors to reflect on the ways these climatic changes and disruptions to seasonal rhythms affect humans. By paying careful attention specifically to medicinal herbs and flowers, as well as other plants humans work with daily, this project asks: what changes in me, in a changing climate?