Lavender – lavandula
Lavender enjoys full bright sunlight, so it will not be found on the north side of walls, trees or anything else throwing lots of shade.…
Tag: south
Deducing Direction from Dog Defecation
This is not an April Fool’s post. Instead this is about the most extraordinary piece of research that I have come across in many years…
Chichester
I took this photo in Chichester the other day, at midday. Chichester has four main streets, North, East, South and West. (A fairly appropriate home…
Prickly Lettuce, A Compass Plant
Prickly lettuce is known to some of its navigating friends as the ‘compass plant’ and to its Roman friends as ‘lactuca serriola’. In truth it…
Analemmas and the Equation of Time
If you stood on the same spot and took a photo of the sun every day during a year’s worth of good weather, at exactly…
Back from the Arctic
Yesterday I arrived back home after sailing north from Scotland via the Faroe Islands into the Arctic, finishing at Reykjavik. I used the trip to…
Tree Lichens and Royalty
————————- In these four pictures we are looking at the same beech tree. See if you can work out which way you are looking in…
Which Way Are We Looking?
The last astro quiz proved so popular that I thought we’d do another. This fantastic photo was taken by the expedition photographer, James Walker. Thanks,…
Snow and Ice Patterns
I’m just back from some micronavigation in the Black Mountains in Wales. I should get a chance to blog in more detail in time, but…