It smells like late summer Living in the countryside, the dusty smell of harvest is very evocative. Walking back from Uplyme this morning, I passed a stubble field where the oilseed rape had been combined a couple of days ago, and the aroma was very redolent of August,…
Tag: zero footprint
An activity that involves minimal travel and thus carbon dioxide generation. In my books, that means no flying or long car journeys to get there.
This post is prompted by a year-long course I’m doing, emphasizing the importance of both presence and being ‘in the moment’. An evening walk down the lane from my house – just a few hundred steps in the cool evening breeze just before sunset. Long shadows, golden light…
This post is an account of a walk I took this sunny morning to see my favourite tree. It’s an absolutely magnificent English Oak, growing at the edge of a sunken lane at the bottom of a valley with high slopes either side. This has created a sheltered…
Or, what a difference a day or two makes Our weather’s been all over the place these past few days. A long period of anticyclonal gloom gave way to bright sunny weather (to everyone’s relief) and the first frost; then we had two days of cold and snow…
I’ve just returned from a short stroll down our lane in the cool of the evening, to see the glorious harvest moon rising from behind the trees over a pale shimmering field of oats. Like a ripe apricot as it first appeared, and surrounded by a faint halo…
Photography is, of course, “all about the light”, and early this morning I made the most of bright weather. The sea at Lyme is often very cloudy with sediment, but after a few quiet days without much rain, the water was clear enough to see the seafloor at…
The scene above is, on the face of it, quite timeless, and was taken just a few steps from home. There are several well-known 20th century paintings of sheep in turnip fields – I remember one from a visit to the art gallery in Glasgow many years ago,…
Several wild windy days have started shaking apples from our two trees, which is good news for wasps, ants and small rodents, but less so for us. I’ve just started picking now – the Egremont Russets are starting to come away from the twigs fairly easily. This means…
A lot of my photos are quite colourful, or at least depend on colour to work. But our constricted life can be rather dreary and uninspiring just now, so that prompted me to set myself a challenge to find some understated images on my doorstep (metaphorically rather than…