Flowers and Blazes
A walk in the woods yesterday revealed some natural and unnatural clues. This primrose, the only one in the area, was unsurprisingly in a south-facing…
A walk in the woods yesterday revealed some natural and unnatural clues. This primrose, the only one in the area, was unsurprisingly in a south-facing…
Picking up on a theme I touched on a few days ago, it is remarkable and delightful how differently we all see the world. Yesterday…
I ran a small private course yesterday and enjoyed a wonderfully ironic moment. It was almost embarrassing. The first half of the day was spent…
The more I study natural navigation, the more indebted I feel to trees. There are few environmental conditions that they do not make some effect…
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…