The Spring equinox, when day and night are of equal length and the season of rebirth and renewal officially begins, always brings a sense of relief to me, with yesterday’s warm temperatures a far cry from the seemingly never-ending cold,…
“We create wonderful places by giving them our attention, not by finding ‘pristine’ places that will bring wonder to us.” David George Haskell, writer and biologist It’s early February, the festival of Imbolc has come around once more and it’s…
Oh my goodness, where has this year gone?! We’ve reached the next turn on the Wheel of the Year, as we enter the season of Yule and the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere. Yule, the Sun’s birthday and…
“And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.” ~ Unknown I was thinking about what woodland means to me when this quote came to mind in the middle of a photo-walk, just as I…
Winter is having one last blast here and recent rains have brought back floods in the valley, making the paths impassable. So, rather than taking a journey out in search of the signs of spring, I’m sharing this first image,…
Living on the edge of a coastal town, you’d think that my focus would be the sea and, for a while after I moved here nearly twenty years ago, it was. However, always simmering below the surface was a longing…