Nature
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Love letter to November
Black silhouettes thin and weave through the scarlet and gold, showing wider horizons beyond. Single dark leaves lift in spinning eddy above the canopy, like bold zephyrs of the lengthening night… Continue reading
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Exit planet dust – Our views are as parched as our landscape…
In a summer like no other, the only thing more startling than the searing heat has been the actual human people bathing in lukewarm insouciance and denial… Continue reading
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The high summer healing of woodland shade…
The ancient bones of the forest have weathered storms and seasons, heat and cold, they remember when to rest, and they prompt me to do the same… Continue reading
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The weird horse and the buzzard – a brief encounter…
The horse begins to sidle, and I think its fair to say I’ve never seen a horse sidle before, along the pathway towards me… Continue reading
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The Call of the Valleys – Walking a landscape to belong…
Those of us with nomadic pasts may struggle to feel rooted …Home is where the heart sings, the mind opens, and the footsteps are trodden fearlessly… Continue reading
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Love letter to May…
In May, nature simply lifts a veil, and life flows in with wild and natural fervour. At this moment, the vibration of spring unleashed fills the air. Continue reading
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Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing…
No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to nature’s evolution. The first burst of spring absorbs its… Continue reading
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5 ways walking the winter landscape will inspire and uplift you…
Pathways open to sweeping landscapes that were once hidden. We become masters of the land around us – for the first time seeing and understanding its contours – its rise and fall, the very bones and essence of its form.… Continue reading
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Bird Therapy – The RSPB Big Garden Mood Lift…
As we sit, we soak in the melodic interludes of song, accompanied by the ethereal swish of the wind through bare winter branches. You can smell the rain in the air, the damp chill freshness, combined with the earthy scents… Continue reading
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The Joy of January – why we should embrace the deep winter dark…
The dark invites us to fold inwards, to give ourselves time and grace for recovery and reflection, hunkered sleepily in a warm moment before the axis turns again. But January also holds a mystical sense – a brooding thrall from… Continue reading
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New year nurture – re-imagining our resolutions
The turning of the year is a crux, a mental turnstile…nature’s inertia pulls us to look inwards, allow ourselves acceptance, reflection, inspiration, from the stripped bare world… Continue reading
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Don’t let the Twelfth Night bells end! Why January is the best of Christmas…
To anyone else sitting amongst the Blackpool illuminations while every neighbour’s windowsill now displays a single well- polished bonsai tree: I see you….and I salute you. Continue reading
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5 simple reasons why anyone should be bird-watching for mood and mental health…
It was just me and that blackbird on the grey dawn street, and it looked straight at me and started to sing again. I can’t completely put into words the strange little swell of feeling that filtered through me… like… Continue reading
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Two bats and a squirrel – The birth of an ADHD walking diary
…there is something different here. It doesn’t feel ground-breaking, it doesn’t feel like it will change my life. But it’s a gentle, tangible tonic. It’s a slower stream of oxygen through otherwise stormy veins… Continue reading
