• Nature Writing,  Photography,  Writing

    After the closure

    A picture can paint a thousand words, or so the phrase says.  Perhaps so.  On a long office day, editing my back catalogue, a 5×4 slide starts talking about memories.   In 2001 my world, like many other people’s, was…

  • Nature Writing,  Writing

    The Alder Pool.

    The voice of a cuckoo       Dropped to the lake                            Where it lay floating                      …

  • Nature Writing

    Petrichor

    Petrichor; derived from Greek petra, “stone” &  īchōr, “divine fluid”: that uniquely fresh, rich aroma of rain falling upon parched earth after days then weeks of hot dry weather. Early summer, the driest on our modern record.  The birchwood copse,…