Our Vital Earth

About five years ago I came across the painting 'Insatiable' by Theodore Bolha and Chris Davis.  It graces the cover of ' Clima...

The garden is - as ever - a wealth of life: a ferment of greenery and flies, birds and song, sunlight patterns on leaves: myriad changes in ...

Out on the heath, low September sunlight and a warm, southerly wind over close-cropped turf and bristly gorse bushes. There are paths ...

How can a wasp fly? The question is a 'how' question, asking about means and mechanisms. One answer would be to explain about wi...

Today I found a nest of wool and leaves containing six baby mice; they fell out of a box when I was emptying out my shed. If I were a dog or...

4-1-2016 I do not know the South Downs, but my visit to Petersfield last week was drawn into their power. They looked grey and brooding in...

2nd August 2014 A warm, boisterous wind is pushing me around today on Bigbury beach, south Devon. I am here with family enjoying the wid...

East Beach at Bawdsey, Suffolk - 7th November 2013 A brown lump of sandstone, easily overlooked on the beach. The ghost of a shell impress...

Image by Alexey Kljatov courtesy   http://www.demilked.com/macro-snowflakes-diy-camera-alexey-kljatov/ I see something beautiful here...

7-11-2013 Clouds... Cauliflowers? Clouds don't fit easily into words. All we have is metaphors, and what we see in the sky's v...

She arrives when I am on the terrace eating lunch outdoors: a flicker of movement among the plant pots, a sally then a quick dash for cover...

"Everything we think we know about the world is a model ".           - Donella H. Meadows: 'Thinking in Systems: A Primer...

I am seated outside my front door in the sunlight, reading. " Our most immediate experience of things... is necessarily an experience o...

A squirrel is busy retrieving acorns - a small hole in the grass, the husk of the acorn lying beside it = the evidence. New potholes appear ...