Great Lettuce!
There is a good photo of the Great Lettuce, Lactuca Virosa, with its leaves aligned north-south on the Adur Wild Flower website. If you do…
Tag: south
Happy Summer Solstice
Happy Summer Solstice everyone. Sunrise and sunset will be closer to north than east or west at this time of year for most of Scotland.…
Navigating with Nature
One of the keys to navigating with nature is appreciating scale. It is vital that we do not spend too much time focusing too narrowly…
Colours and Contours
The rape flowers are coming into bloom over the South Downs, but they don’t all bloom at the same time. The crop tends to be…
Find Your Way with Sheep
It’s 8.15am this morning out on the Downs and this sheep’s shadow tells us that we are looking south. Her wool, or ‘sheep fur’ as…
Shadow Seeker
For the next six months the sun will always have some south in it when viewed from Britain. It will rise south of east and…
Dawn Today
The Natural Navigator’s day often starts with a quick check that the sun is rising roughly where it should be – blog readers will be…
Smoke and Sun
This is a picture I took about half an hour ago and it is one of those that might be dismissed by those not trained…