Sense of Place

Sense of Place is a home for observations from natural and cultural history excursions – plants, animals, landscapes, historic sites, and the stories that shape them.

Some entries are rooted in nearby woods and fields; others emerge from travel, archives, or working landscapes such as farms, vineyards, towns, and cities. The through-line is attention: noticing how ecology, history, and culture shape one another, and how places come to matter through lived experience. The aim is to linger, learn, and understand.

Written and photographed by Nicolette Cagle.

Animals. Notes on the lives of animals as they move through familiar and distant places.

Field Notes. Field Notes capture moments of attention in situ: observations from walks, travels, museums, vineyards, and working landscapes. Some are brief; others linger longer.

Historical Sites. Field notes on places where history still shows its roots.

Museums. Where artifacts become portals—and context is everything

Plants. Notes on plants as the structure of place: rooted, seasonal, and often overlooked.

Ponderings. Notes in the margins—on ecology, memory, and belonging.

Terroir Tastings. Terroir Tastings is a field guide to edible place, where flavor meets landscape in vineyards, markets, and kitchens.

Photographs. A photo archive of place.