Oh the trees!!! There are many street trees in Vienna. A lot are ginkgos and some sort of acer and linden. Many I don't recognise at all!...

I boarded an aeroplane. Yup, what a hypocrite. Not just the bad-for-the-environment avocados, driving and cat food, but now I'm flying. I...

Or according to the Crone.

Letting the light in.

For many days, Mrs Squirrel came to eat by me, using that human shield to good effect. On one occasion, she was eating at me feet and I...

The videos I have promised - and there are more on the way. In fact, so many more that it's embarrassing. I have completed October...

It is possible to feel GREAT.

There's a name for the day that this was - Smokescreen Saturday, the Hunt Saboteurs call it. They sent a video of hunt people digging out...

On the day I sat with the Wayfinder Oak, I looked out over the reservoir as gulls flew, glittering the trees across the water with their...

I had a thought while I was walking along a byway, after I had sat or stood, still and silent, a few times. It was this: Into my silence,...

There were a few days of heavy rain during the Paralympic stint. Made it rather miserable to be outside waiting to see if any robins...

That's the name of my latest non-fiction read, A Trillion Trees by Fred Pearce - he of the book I recently read about 'invasive'...

So, when I was reading Francis Hallé's In Praise of Plants there was this confusing bit about how, like, each bud is almost creating a...

This must be something I have said before: a day comes and the quality of the sunlight suddenly strikes me and I know that the summer is...

So, progress on the Croning Thing. I might have decided on the object to let go of and bury and may have found something that will be...

So, I mentioned before that a few times, when Tane has been in another garden and has seen me, he has flown over. This is very nice. He's...

Again, a hungry female squirrel. She has eaten this close to me for the last two days. My movements worry her as does my voice unless I...

The oaks have been on my mind as I prepare for my Croning. I needed to provide a 'gift' for the place where the rutual will be performed...

You know, I might not be a fan of the Sky Gods, but I have to say that there are few places as lovely as old churches. This one , in the...

Not the best of puns. I was standing under the lilac tree, as I do every morning. The thick canopy of jasmine protected me from the rain....