by JennyOrwin | Mar 17, 2025 | Nature, Out and about, Plants and flowers
I’m starting a new series looking at what has inspired me each month when I’ve been out and about, including nature, the seasons, landscapes and gardens. Even though Spring hasn’t quite arrived yet, February feels like the month when the new cycle of...
by JennyOrwin | Nov 1, 2024 | Creativity, Nature, Out and about, Plants and flowers, Reflections, Sketches
September brought the Autumn Equinox and last weekend the clocks changed. It feels like a good time to reflect on the value of recognising the seasons and allowing space for a circular rhythm in life as well as linear progression, space for finishing things off as...
by JennyOrwin | Apr 4, 2024 | Nature, Out and about, Plants and flowers, Reflections
I was thinking recently about how much my life is well insulated from the weather, seasons and nature. A lot of the time I’m in a bubble of my well insulated and centrally heated house (something I definitely appreciate) with electric lighting, working at my...
by JennyOrwin | Mar 21, 2024 | Nature, Out and about, Reflections, Sketches
I’m remembering a walk in January when a lone tree in a field caught my attention, the shape of the branches against the sky, how stripped back it was without leaves or flowers or fruit of any kind, how during the Winter all the scars from fallen branches and...
by JennyOrwin | Feb 15, 2024 | Nature, Out and about, Plants and flowers, Reflections, Sketches
There is something deeply hopeful about seeing the snowdrops emerging in the first months of the year. Even if it isn’t Spring yet (as my daughter tried to persuade me last week – “look Mummy, there are snowdrops, it must be Spring”) snowdrops...
by JennyOrwin | Apr 15, 2021 | Nature, Out and about
As the bluebells start to flower again, I thought that I would mention a couple of bluebell woods close to me that I have enjoyed visiting. Nidd Gorge near Knaresborough Bluebells in Nidd GorgeA bench next to the River Nidd Nidd Gorge near Knaresborough is a Woodland...
