Welcome.
This is where I share pages from my notebooks as I travel far and and near to discover places and spaces and nature’s architecture.
I hope you enjoy the journey.
Bandhavgarh National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India.
I’m Janette van de Geest-Van Gruisen. I’m a native of England and the Netherlands, and since 1990 I’ve been digging my hands and my heart deep into the soil of Aquidneck Island, a tiny island off the coast of New England, where I have a family and a dog and a horse and a quirky old house and an untamed garden filled with trees.
I also have wandering feet, and every few months I can come up with a watertight excuse to pack a bag and hit the road. I write extensively about my travels, far and near, and my work appears in print and online. These pages are excerpts from my notebooks.