When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.
Writing tagged: ‘the Moor’
The best camera
My point-and-shoot camera turned out to be the best camera in the world yesterday.
Seeing purple
The Moor is at peak-purple at this time of year, with the heather in full bloom.
The nearly dead tree
Each spring, I visit a particular corner of the Moor to check if an old friend has managed to survive another winter.
Exploring my damp patch
For many years, I've sought in vain for a particular wild flower on my local patch—a plant that inspired Charles Darwin to write an entire book on insectivorous plants.
Finding new ways
How plants can end up in the strangest of places.
The Thomas Browne Affair
On the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, and his tenuous connection with my local moor.