Martin Brown

Autumnal sunset from Beacon Fell, sun setting across grassland. Camera image has captured rays spreading out across the landscape. Grassland edged by pine forest. Words ‘Tha fois san nàdar’ translates as ‘there is relaxation in nature’ (in my very basic learning of Scottish Gaelic) Words ‘nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ come from my writing. Image taken on Beacon Fell Lancashire Sept 25

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax #BlueSkyPhotography …
‘time in nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’

‘tha fois san nàdar’ #LearningGaelic
#naturewriting

Psithurism walk. The urgent susurration of wind through ash, the rushing sway across fell-land grasses, the tidal roar through pines. …

#Psithurism and #susurration - lovely words describing whisper of wind through leafs 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting

@rachelape.bsky.social hi, good to connect, was the quote montage yours?

Love this quote

Country diary: An unexpected vista of sky-light and symmetry | Amy-Jane Beer Yorkshire Wolds: What a difference a few years makes – this used to be an expanse of wet mud, now it’s a precious chalkland pond

Lovely piece from @amyjanebeer.bsky.social about those all-important, positive relationships & encounters with farmers.
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Come the dawn, come the day, come the colours sienna, crimson with indigo, aerial isles under stratocumulus. Beyond the village cross crows arrive for daily gathering on bones of the ash. Are they feeling colours changing with seasons turn at September’s end 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Never seen apples so red & clustered as this. A result of earlier pollination & recent warm days, cooler nights. Seems neither have tits, blackbirds, thrushes who break-feast in morning mist. Below, fallen are pulled into natures soil cycle by earthworm bioturbation 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Thank you!
@jenratcliffe.bsky.social

Yep, any ideas?

I think bottom right is cord moss but the red above it I am still working on id-ing (I like to think type of slime mold but could be a beech canker fungus 🤔) Any ideas welcomed!

An ancient conversation, a secret whispered, symbiosis in a micro metropolis … relishing in delights of exploring garden moss, lichen, slime mold and more in such a colourful micro ecosystem 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Country diary: The allotment is flying at full mast Hove, East Sussex: I’m greeting friends with juice and jam and taking plums to the pub, although, there is still some mystery surrounding ‘mast’ years

Mast year symbiosis: extending beyond chance … flowers and pollinators consciously helping each other out?
Kate Bradbury #naturewriting on a #interconnectedness and #kinship we barely understand or imagine in this mornings Country Diary
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September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle

Feeling the Pull of the Equinox with thoughts on balance and reciprocity
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)

Country diary: The sound of a dragonfly is a 300m-year-old whisper | Paul Evans The Marches, Shropshire: It’s almost inaudible to us, but it’s there, a gentle turbulence with a percussive clicking, ancient and electric

‘loaded with the electricity of enchantment … tracing aerial pathways that link the present to the deep past … we are enclosed in the centre of this 300m-year-old whisper’

Paul Evans wonderful Guardian Country Diary celebrates the sound of the dragonfly www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

After a day of wet rinse cycle weather, we wake to call of wren, blackbird & pigeon. The rising sun cuts gold between clear cerulean bluesky and dark green of land. Later, as sunlight touches the top of the orchard trees, you can sense the apples stretching & smiling. 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Thank you Jen

Photo shows shining sounders web, woven across and within autumn flowering heather. Hues of purples, mauve and pink.

Nature’s #angles

Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.

💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs

Charcoal sketch of Bowland fells in Lancashire, capturing the blustery feeling. Smooth fells sweep across the sketch, darker patches of outcrop or darker grass in left bottom corner. Fence line and posts leading the eye towards Fairsnape, the highest fell in this area

Blustery on Bowland Fells this week … loving the simple feel of #pleinair charcoal sketching

Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs

Light breaks a steely grey, oddly balancing with another season imagery of Lark Ascending playing on radio. Land feels resting after gales, yet forecast has more storm before low temps & sun to mark coming equinox. A celebration of light/dark & reciprocity balance 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

On a blustery, sunny gap between showers, we ‘walked the hedge’ A potential community project to lay a line of Hawthorn prominently decorated with red haws. Clusters of bright berries marking the coming transition into autumn 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

#Day16 #DailyNature

Wet trainer sharply turning in gymnasium
- Coot

Squeeze toy, never fully reinflating
- Canada Goose

Flat whistle you got from inside a cracker
- Moorhen

Wind throttling at the curve of a bridge
- Wood Pigeon

If crickets could sound underwater
- Sparrow

#NatureWriting #Sound

Aha ‘fly catchers’

Any explanation as to ‘Stoparolae’?
Could be an obscure or obsolete Latin / scientific name or a local dialect term maybe?

Kitchen smells of natures autumn gifts, simmering soused pears, bubbling damson jam, a bucket of peelings for compost. Outside blackbirds feast on the fallen with a few late Red Admirals, for whom only the most rotten will do as Mark Cocker mentioned in Guardian diary 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin

The Ash who lives out front, echoes wind as a gentle rhythmic rush. Slender Silver Birch bow and dance with the wind. Hail showers join falling acorns in a shed roof symphony. Fruits now all windblown from pear trees. Gathered Crow gossip will be an excited affair. 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Watercolour sketch depicting storm squalls moving across landscape. (Overly)Dark grey and blue clouds with rain falling in funnels onto distant hills Sketch book clips showing yo edges, signed by artist.

From the southern edge of Beacon Fell we watched storm squalls, like grey smoke serpents, barrel across Amounderness, Winter Hill and Ribble Valley, bringing to life the Met Office’s measled radar chart 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #scape #cloudscape #rainscape #ForestOfBowland #watercolour

The low intense sun gave a liminal space between heavy late summer hail showers, everything felt alive, an expectant atmosphere, waiting, breath holding. Visions of Beethoven’s brilliant anticipation as the Pastoral Symphony village summer party ends abruptly 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting