nature walks
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The season’s gilded edges – An Autumn walking diary
The changes creep beguilingly across the leaf scattered pathways, bursts of vivid colour, softer, lower sunlight, and a breath of magic in the air. Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Spring*The secret waterfalls…
The pungent dampness in the air becomes sharper and fresher – the landscape here is yet to fully greet the morning – and the rambling dandelions are still tightly closed – awaiting the first rays… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Spring*The Sunlit Mountain…
The coppery stream winds steeply through the ancient woodland, enormous moss covered boulders, flecked with sunlight, casting imposing shapes across its banks. I felt the magic ancient sense of this spot once before, and I feel it again now… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Spring*The Forgotten Woods
Low sunlight pools into open stretches of land, reflecting off jewel-like deep green holly, and sending slender golden trails through bronzed leaves. Somewhere in the woods a secretive Jay emits a rusty call… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Spring* Conquering the lost footpath…
The golden shafts from the canopy glitter with intensified force and mystery – reinforcing the feeling that the forest is mistress in these depths – and they illuminate a suddenly clear track ahead… 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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Walking Diaries*Winter*The Wild of the Moorland
Beyond the trees, the land opens out, untamed and barren – tussocks of long grass the only relief to open plains of waterlogged ground. The wind travels unhindered across these flat moors, insisting on its wildness with every breath… Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Winter*Chasing the sunlight…
Dry stone walls ramble, reassuringly ancient, over the bare winter mountain, accentuating its stark seasonal architecture. They are innocuous but immovable, like tenacious bones of history – holding the landscape together. Continue reading
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Walking Diaries*Winter*Into a frosty wonderland
Winter opens such different vistas – landscapes once obscured, appear in different scale and detail, birds otherwise hidden amidst green canopies become suddenly and joyfully visible… On the forest side of the road, further evidence of autumn’s resolution not to… Continue reading
