nature – Si Brown artist

Landscape Writing, Notes Made Whilst, Writing
Notes Made Whilst… sauntering: 1 July 2020

Notes made whilst sauntering: 1 July 2020. ~ a long familiar place, unvisited for decade or so ~ wind, carrying drizzle, in branches ~ grass snake swimming amidst horsetails ~ the great sickness, for a while, far away ~ half…
By Si Brown July 29, 2021
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…
By Si Brown November 5, 2020
Nature Writing, Running, Running Writing, Writing
As The Driven Snow… a winter run

“The wood, under a winter storm. A time when all creatures thought of good sense seek shelter of burrow or nest. There remains though, dancing through the tempest, a runner, chill of finger, wet of foot, wide of grin.” Desk…
By Si Brown February 7, 2019
Nature Writing, Writing
The Alder Pool.

The voice of a cuckoo Dropped to the lake Where it lay floating …
By Si Brown September 28, 2018
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,…
By Si Brown July 21, 2018