by JennyOrwin | Sep 5, 2024 | Creativity, Out and about, Reflections
You don’t need to go far to have an adventure. Earlier this summer I headed to Sutton Bank with my daughter for an early evening walk. We spotted a large caterpillar and some orienteering markers, she explored some dens that had been built, and we watched the...
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 | Nov 15, 2022 | Feltmaking, Out and about
‘West Burton Falls’ was made in 2018 using wet felting, needle felting and hand stitching, and was inspired by the waterfall close to West Burton in Wensleydale, known as Cauldron Falls. It’s very close to the village green but tucked away down a...
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 Gorge A bench next to the River Nidd Nidd Gorge near Knaresborough is a Woodland...
