Tree Trunks Lean Away From Buildings
Tree trunks lean away from the shade of buildings and towards the light. This habit tends to override the normal biases towards southern light, because…
Tree trunks lean away from the shade of buildings and towards the light. This habit tends to override the normal biases towards southern light, because…
What are those bright rainbow colours in the sky, if not rainbows? My thanks to Giel Spierings for the following email and permission to share…
I recently returned from a natural navigation exercise in the New Forest, Hampshire. On leaving a patch of woodland I was reminded of a common…
Mosses get all the press, but lichens are the stars when it comes to effective natural navigation. In the video above I look at the…
Yesterday I visited the National Gallery with my sister to view the paintings in their latest exhibition, After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art. I can recommend…
Which is the older of these two large trees? Clue: there are a few ways we can age trees, including one related to natural navigation.…
A guest blog about the secrets of scintillating stars by Dan Bennett Most of us know what stars are (“I always thought they were balls…
I’m not a professional photographer, which makes it all the more helpful to know a few tricks that help create great landscape photographs. If you…
Weld (Reseda luteola) is a tall, hairless biennial plant found on dry ground. It grows up to 1.5m tall and has green-yellow flowers. It thrives…
Which direction are we looking in the image above? Answer: We are looking… West. The five best clues are: The ivy stem has grown away…
Anyone who spends time on or near the water will have noticed that sometimes we can see through water, but often we can’t. For those…
Have a look at the trees at the edge of any woodland and you’ll notice that the branches appear to grow away from the wood…
Water-pepper, Persicaria hydropiper, is a bitter tasting map-maker. It is an inconspicuous annual plant, but it is useful to natural navigators. It grows up to…
Tough one today! This picture was taken a few days ago, so still very much in spring. Which direction are we looking? Cryptic clue: why…
I receive lots of emails asking whether the natural navigation signs in the books, newsletter and on the website work in the southern hemisphere. The…
A ‘glitter path’ is light reflected off water from a low sun, moon or other bright object. Glitter paths help us to read water because…
My thanks to Alun for sending in this photo of autumn colour near the Kitano Tenman-Gu Shrine in Kyoto. And the following question: “I saw…
We see the most detail in relatively calm water when we look at the places where light and dark reflections meet. Look at the line…
In rural and urban areas, buildings can help us to find our way. Take a look at the picture above of a building at the…
My thanks to Peter Gibbs for another fascinating email. You can see our exchange below. If you have your own different interpretation, do please get in touch. ——-…
The colour of water is determined by: A) What’s under it. B) What’s in it. C) What’s on it. D) And by light levels and…