It seems that I am spending nearly every day at the Reserve. I guess there are advantages to not having enough work. I visited the...

One day, standing under the back lilac, a jay landed in next door's birch and stared at me for a few seconds before following his mate to...

On April Fool's Day, I decided that I really like geese. I love how they pair up and the male looks out for his mate. I sat in my...

One of my friends says, "I know we all have beauty, and I am sincerely good at knowing and seeing that... but..." I know what she means....

Any idea what the dunnock's doing? The strands in the beak may be from the wool I left out for nesting birds, but what's going on with...

Huh. I saw that image and wrote that title with SOMETHING in my mind... but who knows what it was? It's fled. Like my focus. OK. What has...

The day started well. Look who visited!!! Then I went to the garage. I had expected a 45 minute appointment as I was waiting. Nope. Three...

It is nice to see the buds and leaves opening. And the longer hours of daylight. Light... lightning... this is a peculiar view of the...

At the end of the path, a worm was working their way from the soil to the no-worm's-land of concrete. Closer inspection: what's that blob...

I have mentioned before the very very old oak who has lost most of his crown? Well, I felt drawn to visit. While I was there, I had this...

I wondered who was dropping flowers on me. The blue tits pluck them and eat the base, where the nectar pools. Just as I used to do with...

Still uneasy. My new pal Judy phrased it well: the difficulty and fear of stepping into the here-unfolding. So, I went to see Kairos. On...

I love the way the spiders' webs all across the grass are illuminated by later afternoon sun. I continue, reverse Ariadne, following the...

Two wonderful reflections celebrating the start of spring... a post on Erik Jampa Andersson's substack about the Vernal Equinox ... and...

The whole robin situation gets more confusing by the day. See this chap? Or chappess. Singing loud and proud just across the hedge? It's...

I saw the pair of jackdaws and a pair of pigeons settling in for the night. I like the way the birds negotiate space. I like seeing the...

These are all quotes from his book The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture : [Plants’] absence of movement is nothing but the...

Instead of going to Devon, I went to Leicestershire and visited two woods: Prior's Coppice and Launde Big Wood. I got lost on my way to...

This is a video offering... Thus Spake the Crone

I saw that robin when I was looking at the old trees a few days ago. And I thought the breast looked more red than on the urban robins....