Autumn illustration
A woman in a swirl of water and harvest flowers
Cover the open air
Foxgloves and butterflies
Autumnal illustration from Agnes Miller Parker from a Jeffries book, 1948…. Jeffries a nature writer was mentioned in E M Forster’s Howard’s End. #naturewriter #agnesmilllerparker #books
I wrote about what my local river has taught me about taking a break from pushing myself: medium.com/@meglittlewo... #wildswimming #naturewriting #nature #naturewriter
#naturewriter & #texasbutterflyranch founder Monika Maeckle's new book on 25 powerhouse #nativeplants (found across the US) is almost here! Meanwhile, read what she says about #agarita in the #TexasHillCountry this season (and learn more about the book): texasbutterflyranch.com/2025/04/25/a...
Reposting in case anyone fancied a read,
Also includes some detail about the sights, smells and birdsong in the Aotearoa bush 🐦
#birder #naturewriter
In honor of Women's History Month, here's a short profile of one of my all-time heroes, Rachel Carson. I had no idea she hosted a radio show. thestoryexchange.org/rachel-carso... #naturewriting #naturewriter #sciencewriting #rachelcarson #womenshistorymonth #heroes #womeninscience
I write to believe that there’s good in the world, that good people exist, and we have the ability to change things for the better. Here’s my latest substack which isn’t really about any of this: open.substack.com/pub/inkandea...
#substackwriter #naturewriter #writing #quietlife #mindfulwriting
Here are the answers to our #NationalHandwritingDay Quiz!!! Thank you all for answering and congratulations to those with correct answers. @billmckibben.bsky.social @pamlhouston.bsky.social
#sowellcollection ##handwriting #writers #naturewriter #literature #community #nature #archives #archivist
I just signed up to the big garden watch... to do it from my boat ⛵
Birds - prepare to be counted!
#NatureWriter #Birder
This is an interesting exercise. Alternatively, it could be flipped to connect you to your divine masculine. #naturewriting #Naturesky #naturewriter #connectingwithnature #writingprompt www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/nat...
Together, desert ecosystems and coyotes are among the most misunderstood of beings.
If you’re not following this podcast, co-hosted by the lovely #naturewriter Chris Clarke, what are you even doing?
ATV track outlined by snow, with grass and leaves in between the tracks. Photo by EE Koning.
Last week's snow marked this ATV track nicely, so we're thinking about paths today in Sylvan Sundays.
#agsky #naturewriting #naturewriter #newsletter
This essay collection is on my 2025 reading list. The interview mentions birding and the idea of keeping a "life list" as a writing practice—a way to notice and "see" things closer. #nature #naturewriting #Naturewriter #essays #essaycollection
attention.https://orionmagazine.org/article/life-list/
“In saving the leaves for the moths and the fireflies and the dark-eyed juncos, I am still trying. And in the trying perhaps I can save my own soul.” #naturewriting #naturewriter www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/o...
The book how to love a forest by Ethan tapper in front of the speakers area of Gibson’s bookstore with art books in the background
A bookshelf with How to love a forest by Ethan tapper sandwiched between Annie Dillard, the world without us, emergent strategy on one side, and Kimmerer, mark Doty, and Walt Whitman on the other.
post-yoga event at @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social was a real treat!
How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper is a manifesto of nuance in #forestry and the practical actions that hurt our hearts to take, like cutting down trees to save them. Remiscent of Kimmerer or Dillard. 👏 #naturewriting #naturewriter
I’ve always felt a connection to Mary Oliver’s poetry. This is one of my favorites.
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Rest well friends.
#maryoliver #poetry #poet #poets #naturalist #naturewriter #poetsky #writer #write
Carolina Wren
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Wilson’s Warbler
Putting some little bird energy out into the world. They may be little, but their songs and colors fill the air with joy and verve! There is much to learn from these little powerhouses. #naturalists #birdsky #bird #naturewriter #birds #writer #getoutside
If you’re looking for some beautifully narrated audiobooks to accompany you while you’re walking, you can’t go wrong with a Rob MacFarlane book! I’ve laughed, cried, and sighed listening to his books on my walks.
#BookSky #NatureWriter
From top: a blue sky is cut by a layer of thick white and grey cloud. Distant trees and fields can just about be seen as the landscape is cut again I to vibrant green grass. In the forefront the shadow of a leafless tree stretches across the field.
From the top: a pale blue sky is cute with white mist, trees can be seen in different visible variation - a row in the far distance is grey and fuzzy, then a shrub in the middle mint with a fluffy outline leading to a prominent brown bush out of the vapour. A lush green lawn lays ahead with the outstretched shady arms of a trees shadow.
Mist vapour obscures morning. A delicate chiffon veil twists where heat blossoms then shatters against cold. Spectres run on water. A blockade ahead storms the land, I brace - step from crisp blue to steel. My lungs, eyelids and footsteps are cloud bogged, wrapped in nature's curtain.
#NatureWriter
Finished writing my 4th nonfiction book today.
Three guesses as to the subject matter...
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#naturewriter #sciencewriter #monkeys
Are you a nature writer? Are you a ‘rager’. It’s a fast evolving genre. www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/... #Author #Writer #Writing #NatureWriter #BlueSky #BookSky #WritingCommunity #WritingAndBooks #indieAuthor #SelfPublished
Echo | By Paige Ryan
#poetry #writer #writing #poem #writingcommunity #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity #ecopoetry #naturewriting #poems #naturewriter #poet #writers #writerscommunity #poets #wordporn #poetryisnotdead #word #writerslife #poetsociety #writing
My article is up on The Lead UK this week, talking about the immediate threat to nomadic boating and potential loss of public access-
As long as boaters are on the canal Al then the canal remains ours, the publics, open to be used by all
#Boaters #NatureWriter
thelead.uk/canal-boater...
Blue and mellow the sky wakes up and stretches, then slowly, with cold achy limbs it shuffles on it’s winter coat: a chiffon of mist. Nature becoming pale as it’s nestled under cover.
#NatureWriter
A warm yellow spills out from the top centre behind trees and low orange to pink to blue clouds. Above a condensation baring frosted-window
The morning broke out in floursecent caramel like a silent tap on a crème brûlée
‘Sunrise!’ I grasped the glass of the window free and let the day flood me
We had woken later than planned but winter often sleeps-in too.
The gift of dark days is easy to catch sun displays 🧡💗💛
#NatureWriter
It’s 1am but brighter than the afternoon. Topsy turvy slate skies cover cloud roads and I’m awoke to bumper cars sledding down streets into one a other.
There’s a certain irony of a world to look so salted yet be desperately wanting of grit!
#NatureWriter
Blue sky background. Top right: lush green leaves spill out of a drain pipe at the top of a building. The plant is bursting our of pipe as it comes closer bottom left too.
Blazing out - you climb to touch the sun. A plastic weed, an infected human ornament to you is a waterfall from heaven. The shrub that wished to be a tree, successfully smiles down at me.
#NatureWriter
Two circular mounds of moss sit atop a brick wall centre of the crack. In the light you can see a stripe of lighter green with flecked yellow to the right and darker green to its left, perfectly split.
The moss spills from the brick crack on the left outward over to right front of photo. The front moss has a white fluffy tinge, whereas the moss further behind is more yellow
A perfectly round grass green spec of moss sits atop a brown pock marked brick. Shadow casting forward to right giving the impression of a small fluffy rounded hairstyle in the silhouette
The week is full of struggle; my mind is a hot iron pressing against slow ancient ice.
Meanwhile moss grows - despite prods by passing school children.
I give each names according to their hairstyles. Decide this isn’t odd, being oblivious to their existence is the oddity.
#NatureWriter
