Long-living lichen and other tongue twisters
We all see a lot of lichens, but we pay them little attention. They are not endowed with classical beauty and yet their absence can…
We all see a lot of lichens, but we pay them little attention. They are not endowed with classical beauty and yet their absence can…
A Christmas present that I hesitate to share, or even share the idea of… is ‘Britain and Ireland’s Best Wild Places’ book. It does exactly…
A little over a month ago I promised to look at how trees have brown or ‘tanned’ looking lichen on their north side in this…
Chichester Cross is a slightly mysterious stone construction at the heart of my home town. It has been around for five hundred years or more…
Leonardo da Vinci is among the great and the good to have noted that tree growth is not symmetrical, it is heavily influenced by the…
When talking about heat and wind in the context of chillies, there is a risk that we might start to think some very un-navigational thoughts……
Having spent the morning organising images for upcoming courses, I was reminded of a regular problem with learning anything practical from nature. There is a…
There is a scene in the 80s spoof movie Top Secret where Val Kilmer is busy painting the scene from a moving train. We later…