‘Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.’
Rabindranath Tagore
Tag Archives: environment
Dawn Triad
2 FebGrowing Green Again
13 Dec“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Goethe
That this…
Will become this…
Is just a little bit magical isn’t it…
What a show off!
5 Aug
In my grandmother’s New Forest garden was a huge buddleia bush accompanied by a long lavender bed. In the summer I would sit there hypnotised watching the butterfly coated tree and hearing the somewhat
magical sound of peacock and red admiral wings thrum past my ears. My memory tells me there were many many more than hover on the buddleia bush in the New Forest Garden I am looking after currently.
This may though be a case of romantic childhood memories as Butterfly Conservation’s research shows that they have increased, possibly encouraged by the warming climate, in the South of England. BC tells us that there has been a “significant overall increase in the abundance of the Peacock since 1976.”
Well I am jolly pleased about that. The above Peacock butterfly surprised me by settling within perfect focus range when I was concentrating on some mating Chrysolina herbacea on Mentha aquatica…that’s wild mint beetles on copious wild mint to you and me!
Cheeky!
Embracing Experience
29 May
A butterfly loving friend arrived at my door one night with a cocoon. It started vibrating not long after, by the time I settled into my bed a butterfly had been born. Early sunrise woke us both and I took this before opening the window…
‘Between the stones’
6 MarRoyal Victoria Country Park Hospital through slate and stone sculpture ~ 50,000 patients were treated here during WWI, Queen Victoria loved it, Florence Nightingale deemed it vain. I’m really enjoying exploring black & white.
Odes to snow ★
15 Dec‘And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.’ Joan Vinge
‘Magic is this layer of peace nature brings us with her frozen tears’ FT
‘The snow goose need not bath itself to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.’ Lao Tzu
‘Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.’ Alice M Swain
‘The future lies before you like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it for every step will show.’ Anon
‘In that moment robin knew hummingbird.’ FT
‘The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found’
J B Priestly
‘Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.’ Andy Goldsworthy
‘The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.’ Margaret Atwood
‘You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.’ Amy Lowell
Red leaves falling …
8 Nov
red leaves are falling like spinning dervishes on the eddies of the wind
ulalating their final song
we give you fire and glory before the dark months
catching light in our veins.
fruit, fecund, ripening, rotting
lies on the good earth
final food for hungry wasps
our death. your life.
they buzz.
©2010 Tori Green.
In search of the grey mare
10 Oct
With such lovely autumnal sunshine I headed out to the New Forest this week with the intention of trying to capture some sunset landscapes and grey mares to photograph. White horses have a deep connection to the south of England their images carved in chalk on hilltops but it was Epona’s mare I sought. After making friends with a friendly wild pig who just wanted a good back scratch in exchange for posing perfectly, I found her.
“”Evoke Epona on this equinox. Evoke her deeply, feeling her with each breath. Epona ground me on this equinox eve. Epona your balance I receive.” Anon.
Eden Ahoy!
5 OctTwo of my favourite things plus a night away with my better half was always going to bode well. Dreadzone at eden project in Cornwall on October 1st was like having your favourite pudding and your favourite meal delivered by hand. The following day exploring the flora of Eden was like a 7 course meal for my eyes and camera!
A startlingly beautiful and almost alien venue at night we were greeted by gifts of Acai berry juice freshly harvested from the tropical biome. Warmly welcomed by Dan Ryan, editor of Eden’s online conservation website Plant Talk, who was kind enough to put us up in his camper (thanks Dan!). I have been volunteering for Dan as photojournalist and wasn’t sure if I was more excited to photograph Dreadzone in such an amazing structure or the plant life the following day. But both were as wonderful to shoot as the other.
An intimate gig with an audience of eight hundred nestled between the biomes Dreadzone played with abandoned pride, clearly showing their joy gigging at such an inspiring venue with the multi coloured Cornish crowd in full appreciation. Once the rhythm section of Big Audio Dynamite in the 1980’s the new album Eye on the Horizon is available now on Dubweiser records. Look out for tracks Gangster, Little Britain (not the tv show the song!) inspired American Dread and the hypnotising Tomorrow Never Comes. The band played with personal passion dedicating the track Changes to a member of eden team who had recently lost her father, their connection to their audience as strong as ever. Oh how we danced under eden’s biomes, as those who know would say “Oi Oi!”
Eden isn’t just about plants, occasional gigs (the spectacular Kate Tempest plays next month) and the largest greenhouse in the world. As a registered charity member’s of the team work with the homeless on their Great Grass programme which enables participants to realise new skills on registered training courses and support into employment. There are campaigns to encourage school children to learn how we can grow our own foods, a deep geothermal energy project proposing to build the first UK geothermal power plant, and so much more to learn and explore. Wear comfy shoes and layers, that tropical biome is hot and go, you’d be silly not to!
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