Showing posts with label Nature's Calendar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature's Calendar. Show all posts

Tuesday, 1 August 2023

#67: Noticing Nature

This Twitter account is rather good and is well worth following. It is apparently the work of four women who are also putting together a book due out in September called 'Nature's Calendar'.

It shares ideas from a range of people and places, and would be a useful companion perhaps to Richard Mabey's 'Flora Britannica'. (see earlier blogpost on this book)

It is based on a Japanese concept of there being a whole range of seasons, each of which lasts just a few days at times.


The book comes out in September.

I would imagine that climate change is going to mess up these fine grained annual rhythms sadly...

#647: Mary Oliver

The poetry of Mary Oliver has come up a few times in recent weeks. This poem was mentioned a few times. Are you familiar with her work? What...