Walking. The gentle therapy with warrior power… Walking is more than an obligate therapy. It is connection, transformation, empowerment. It heals with primal pathways, bringing us back to our true natures.

Escape, connection, inspiration... The magical force of putting your shoes on...

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#walkingempowerment #landscapeconnection

A sunny cow's eye view of Friday morning...

#sunshine #spring #highlandcow #naturefriday

Walking Diaries*Spring*The Sunlit Mountain… The coppery stream winds steeply through the ancient woodland, enormous moss covered boulders, flecked with sunlight, casting imposing shapes across its banks. I felt the magic ancient sense of this spot once before, and I feel it again now...

A magnificent mountain top walk in brilliant spring sunshine...

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#SpringWalks #WalkingDiaries #MindfulWalks #Walking #Nature #WelshWalking #NaturePhotography

Walking Diaries*Spring*The Forgotten Woods Low sunlight pools into open stretches of land, reflecting off jewel-like deep green holly, and sending slender golden trails through bronzed leaves. Somewhere in the woods a secretive Jay emits a rusty call...

A walk onto open hilltops bathed in spring sunshine, and forgotten footpaths through the woods...
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#walkingdiary #walking #springwalks #lostfootpaths #rightsofway #nature

How to spot Neurotypicals in the wild – Part One: Physical Oddities It is not clear how the neurotypical is able to navigate fully without the useful rebound effects of doorways and table corners, but it must lead them to feel very disorientated to keep missing thi…

I have considered this often, as I'm not sure how we are really supposed to know how they work, Apologies, this is a very tongue in cheek response to the issue...😂

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Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing… No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to natur…

It's a misty early March morning out there, but sunset times are starting to pass 6pm, evenings are lightening, slow change is afoot. Now is the time to pause a moment...to take in the wonder of the unfolding season...
#EarlySpring #SignsOfSpring #SpringWriting

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Love this picture.

Walking Diaries*Spring* Conquering the lost footpath… The golden shafts from the canopy glitter with intensified force and mystery - reinforcing the feeling that the forest is mistress in these depths - and they illuminate a suddenly clear track ahead...

"If there is a time of year to discover a lost or hidden pathway - it is now - when the winter branches are at their barest, and the spring is still too new to have powered up the brambles..."
#walkingdiary #springwalks #lostfootpaths #rightsofway #nature

I love a wren. Beautiful photo.

The skies are lightening, the buds are opening, the trees are getting louder...

5 reasons we can all feel better if we watch birds...

#spring #springbirds #springskies #birdwatching #birding #mentalhealth

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Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing… No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to natur…

Spring's eve, a moment of stillness, infused with life and energy, a time to stop and feel nature's soft power waking from repose...

#spring #arrivalofspring #wintertospring #springseve #springscrolling #seasonchange #springwriting

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Suddenly, lost in blossom...

#spring #arrivalofspring #springscrolling #bloomscrolling

Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing… No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to natur…

'The trees are proudly bare and poised - tiny buds on their branches the gentle, unhurried harbingers.

A faint mist hovers on the mountain horizon, holding its breath, teetering patiently on the brink...'

A 2 minute read #spring #wintertospring #signsofspring

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A little bit of rain ain't gonna stop it coming. We stand on the cusp...

#spring #cuspofspring #primroses #bloomscrolling #beautyintherain

Love letter to the Winter Spring crossing… No other season change evokes this feeling. An infinitely peaceful, quieted world, that thrums with fierce hope and expectation. The close of winter offers a bold open landscape, a tribute to nature's evolution. The first burst of spring absorbs its hidden power, ploughing ribbons of colour and life through our land...

Rain, snow, sun or flowers, no season change lights our senses like this one...

( 2 minute read )

#spring #wintersend #signsofspring #seasonchange #nature #seasonalwriting #naturewriting

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