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5 ways walking the winter landscape will inspire and uplift you… Pathways open to sweeping landscapes that were once hidden. We become masters of the land around us – for the first time seeing and understanding its contours – its rise and fall, the v…

February can feel like a long bridge to spring, but the winter landscape is a therapy and inspiration...we need to follow our bone-deep need to be outside...

#winterlandscapes #scapes #winterwellness #mentalhealth #nature #naturetherapy #winterphotography

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5 ways walking the winter landscape will inspire and uplift you… Pathways open to sweeping landscapes that were once hidden. We become masters of the land around us - for the first time seeing and understanding its contours - its rise and fall, the very bones and essence of its form. In this new light, the naked terrain of winter makes us feel the landscape viscerally, with a fresh and stark magnificence…

The dark season is all about light...

Open vistas, low sun gilding fresh landscapes, magical scenes and stirring wildness...

#winterlandscapes #winterwalks #nature #winter #landscapes #MentalHealth #landscapephotography #winterphotography

Walking Diaries*Winter*The Wild of the Moorland Beyond the trees, the land opens out, untamed and barren - tussocks of long grass the only relief to open plains of waterlogged ground. The wind travels unhindered across these flat moors, insisting on its wildness with every breath...

A short walking escape into wild winter moorland...

#WalkingDiary #walking #nature #WinterWalks #MindfulWalks #NatureTherapy

Happy Imbolc eve to all. Now halfway between winter solstice and equinox and the skies feel magical on the eve of February's Snow Moon...

#imbolc #SnowMoon #NightSkies #WinterMagic
#ImbolcEve

Rights for Sheep splinter group Ewe'll Be Sorry, captured at their bi- monthly action meeting.

#sheep #welshwalks #winterlandscape

Walking Diaries*Winter*Chasing the sunlight… Dry stone walls ramble, reassuringly ancient, over the bare winter mountain, accentuating its stark seasonal architecture. They are innocuous but immovable, like tenacious bones of history - holding the landscape together.

A short mountain walk into a starkly beautiful landscape...

#winterwalks #walking #walkingdiary #nature #naturewalks #winterlandscape #naturephotography

Bird Therapy – The RSPB Big Garden Mood Lift… As we sit, we soak in the melodic interludes of song, accompanied by the ethereal swish of the wind through bare winter branches. You can smell the rain in the air, the damp chill freshness, combin…

Take one tired and grumpy family, one drizzly January day, one set of binoculars, add a flask of tea, a sprinkling of snacks, and mix thoroughly

#BigGardenBirdWatch #bbcwinterwatch #birdwatching #nature #MentalHealth
@bbcspringwatch.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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The layers between us – Phones, connection, choice, and curated lives… Our engagements are no longer being led by our base feelings, instincts, or preferences, and even they themselves are being perpetually modified by what is fed to us. Re-curated each day by the end…

The elusive infiltration of the little black box - why we need to think more deeply about how we use our phones...

#phones #smartphones #mentalhealth #phoneuse #socialmediaban #connection #choice

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The layers between us – Phones, connection, choice, and curated lives… Our engagements are no longer being led by our base feelings, instincts, or preferences, and even they themselves are being perpetually modified by what is fed to us. Re-curated each day by the endlessly morphing algorithms of our life feeds. The continued availability of communication, distraction, entertainment, also means there are no mental spaces left to fill. For our minds to wander, for organic thoughts to enter our brains, flourish, or bloom...

Phones. People. Our own choices and connections. The interwoven layers between us…

#smartphones #phones #socialmedia #socialmediaban #mentalhealth #wellbeing #connection #choice

“Our phones risk becoming not just carriages upon which we mentally ride, but the actual curators of our existence...”

It's a new moon tonight, and in the absence of its light, the eerie orb of streetlamps through misty tree branches is transforming road entrances into Narnian thresholds...

#newmoon #mistynight #streetlamps #Narnia #thresholds #DarkWinter

Whilst fiercely opposing the zombie AI apocalypse, always say please to Alexa, just in case...they might remember....

'Look, this is my apple field, I found it, I'm going to eat them all. Every Last One.'
'Actually... I think I might be full.'

#WinterWalks #WinterWildlife #blackbirds #FunnyBirds #WinterBirds

Walking Diaries*Winter*Into a frosty wonderland Winter opens such different vistas - landscapes once obscured, appear in different scale and detail, birds otherwise hidden amidst green canopies become suddenly and joyfully visible... On the forest side of the road, further evidence of autumn's resolution not to be forgotten, a sheltered tree clinging to its crop of bronzed leaves, the warm russet of the bracken like a woodland blanket against the icy air...

A five minute reading escape with photos...
Todays walk included frosty landscapes, brilliant buzzards and bingeing blackbirds...

#WalkingDiary #WinterWalks #WinterWildlife #WinterBirds
#WinterNature #NatureWalks #NaturePhotography

All photographs authors own.

Today I shall mostly be photographing frosty things...

#BeautifulJanuary #WinterFrost #Midwintermagic #WinterNature #WinterWalk

Despite their wives being best friends, when left alone, Gary and Ian could never think how to start a conversation...

#GrumpyAnimals #JanuaryNature #WinterWalks #bulls #cows #SocialAnxiety

Low winter sunlight on calm river with bright green moss covered boulders

Almost makes you fancy a winter dip...🤔
#GentleJanuary #WinterSun #WinterLandscape #MidwinterMagic

The Joy of January – why we should embrace the deep winter dark… The dark invites us to fold inwards, to give ourselves time and grace for recovery and reflection, hunkered sleepily in a warm moment before the axis turns again. But January also holds a mystical …

January invites us warmly to hibernate, and simultaneously its wild darkness calls us...The indoor and outdoor reasons to embrace the joys of deep winter....

#joyofjanuary #Januarynesting #winternature #MidwinterMagic #nature #beoutside

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Sunlight through Ivy covered winter trees

Robin on a branch in low sunlit winter trees

Low winter sunlight through trees reflecting on canalside

Winter is beautiful.

#joyofjanuary #winternature #magicjanuary #beoutside #nature

The Joy of January – why we should embrace the deep winter dark… The dark invites us to fold inwards, to give ourselves time and grace for recovery and reflection, hunkered sleepily in a warm moment before the axis turns again. But January also holds a mystical …

"In the deep black of the long nights, a thread is still pulling us to nature in her stark winter glory..."

#joyofjanuary #newyear #lovewinter #winternature #januarynurture

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The Joy of January – why we should embrace the deep winter dark… The dark invites us to fold inwards, to give ourselves time and grace for recovery and reflection, hunkered sleepily in a warm moment before the axis turns again. But January also holds a mystical …

"In the deep black of the long nights, a thread is still pulling us to nature in her stark winter glory..."

#joyofjanuary #newyear #lovewinter #winternature #januarynurture

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New year nurture – re-imagining our resolutions The turning of the year is a crux, a mental turnstile…nature’s inertia pulls us to look inwards, allow ourselves acceptance, reflection, inspiration, from the stripped bare world…

Trying not to feel left out that we don't have any snow this morning, and still holding on to #gentlejanuary #new-year #beingkindtoyourself

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New year nurture – re-imagining our resolutions The turning of the year is a crux, a mental turnstile...nature's inertia pulls us to look inwards, allow ourselves acceptance, reflection, inspiration, from the stripped bare world...

Step away from the treadmill, place the turnip smoothie at a safe distance....we need a new year re-think...

#NewYearsResolutions #NewYearNurture #MagicJanuary #gentlenewyear #BeKind

New year nurture – re-imagining our resolutions The turning of the year is a crux, a mental turnstile...nature's inertia pulls us to look inwards, allow ourselves acceptance, reflection, inspiration, from the stripped bare world...

Step away from the treadmill, place the turnip smoothie at a safe distance....we need a new year re-think...

#NewYearsResolutions #NewYearNurture #MagicJanuary #gentlenewyear #BeKind

Happy twelfth night to all...

#twelfthnight #stillchristmas #January #newyear

Don’t let the Twelfth Night bells end! Why January is the best of Christmas… To anyone else sitting amongst the Blackpool illuminations while every neighbour’s windowsill now displays a single well- polished bonsai tree: I see you….and I salute you.

To anyone else sitting amongst the Blackpool illuminations while every neighbour’s windowsill now displays a single well- polished bonsai tree:

I see you….and I salute you....

Why January Christmastime is the best...

#twelfthnight #newyear #christmas #JanuaryChristmas #don'tletthebellsend

Beautiful picture.

December will be magic again.
Kate Bush said it. I'm saying it too.

Through all the chaos there is magic out there somewhere..

Happy December to all...

#December #DecemberMagic #ChristmasStress #ADHD #Neurodiversity

ADHD and the call of magic – how wild senses singularly channel the world… Mornings like this one stir something deep in my senses, a slumbering winter goddess fashioned from shiny holly and wild air, smelling faintly of spiced hot-chocolate. Our view of the world, when we let our imaginations roam, unveils hidden shimmers in the deep blue unknown...

As the Christmas season of crazy lights and overwhelm approaches, a reminder of the power of our wild imaginations and senses to see the magical everyday…

#ADHD #AuDHD #neurodiversity #magic #imagination #christmas #nature #xmas #mindfulness

The pre-christmas overload is building, and the shops are a battleground requiring armour ...but there is a wild and frosty chill out here today...there is magic to be found in this season if we look...
#ADHD #neurodiversity #Christmas #magic #mindfulness

ADHD and the call of magic – how wild senses singularly channel the world… Mornings like this one stir something deep in my senses, a slumbering winter goddess fashioned from shiny holly and wild air, smelling faintly of spiced hot-chocolate. Our view of the world, when we let our imaginations roam, unveils hidden shimmers in the deep blue unknown...

As the Christmas season of crazy lights and overwhelm approaches, a reminder of the power of our wild imaginations and senses to see the magical everyday…

#ADHD #AuDHD #neurodiversity #magic #imagination #christmas #nature #xmas #mindfulness