Got a call from A today to meet up in the Glen. It was a morning with a hard strong frost still cutting a diagonal across the football pitch as the sun reaches for the dog roses. A and her dog Fudge brought me to a place I don’t remember being before, though I’d heardContinue reading “Saturday 23.01.2021 The Island”
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Friday 22.01.2021 Lichens
It was a frosty night, the ground was still icy and there was a bit of cold drizzle this morning. I wandered slowly in with a young family feeling for our footholds and happy to be out. On the hillside each standing thing had a halo of frost about it, now collecting the damp rainContinue reading “Friday 22.01.2021 Lichens”
Thursday 21.01.2021 Walk with V
I had a walk with V this morning, we met on Whatsapp at 8.15 from a wet and haily Sligo to a bright and frosty Cork. The sun was sliding into the Glen from the East and unfreezing the frost. We talked about real contact in this time of social distancing and lockdown, about theContinue reading “Thursday 21.01.2021 Walk with V”
Wednesday 20.01.21 Oyster Mushrooms, blue skies and snow on the way
So I passed were N & I freed the water the other day, it was gushing forth in its new passage. I’ve been reading Gathering Moss and this brings me to looking at the Boundary layer and the different kind of mosses that gather in the barks of trees from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Gathering MossContinue reading “Wednesday 20.01.21 Oyster Mushrooms, blue skies and snow on the way”
Tuesday 19.01.2021 under the oak on a grey day
It has been grey and drizzly I went today to stretch my legs, there were few souls out, a small posse of boys and dogs and while I stop to notice a birch on the zigzag, a girl on a pink bicycle her Mum in tow, picking up after the dog. At the top aContinue reading “Tuesday 19.01.2021 under the oak on a grey day”
Monday 18.01.21 Damp & overcast – Velvet Shank Spore prints
Today the veil of fog never lifted and i walked out after 3pm. I had been in the studio preparing paper and looking at my collections. I remembered the velvet shanks I picked last week and went to check on the spore prints – they are a beautiful white as predicted and there is theContinue reading “Monday 18.01.21 Damp & overcast – Velvet Shank Spore prints”
Sunday 17.01.21 CleanUp
An interim clean up with small posse, N, I, L, G, E – oddly enough I_GLEN! With me it’s JI_GLEN or GLEN_JI, and now I’m somehow hearing a Genie in there, how bad <3. I collected the trolly from outside the Council Depot where we parked it last week. The trolly had been in theContinue reading “Sunday 17.01.21 CleanUp”
Saturday 17.01.2021 Busy Park
A late walk today it’s after 4.30 and I hear the bikes as I enter, growling angrily below, the large boys seem too much for these small motors and they are straining as they cut up the wet turf on the football pitch. I decide to go towards the ridge, up and away from theContinue reading “Saturday 17.01.2021 Busy Park”
Friday 15.01.21 the northern edge and the oak stump
Two walks today. An early on a mission to procure a velvet shank, to take a spore print, excited to see if it will yield the white pattern that will be the final test to identify it as one of this kind. I enter the Glen my usual way, between the young birch and itsContinue reading “Friday 15.01.21 the northern edge and the oak stump”
Thursday 14 January 2021 ~ A circuit
Today there was a young heron in the egret’s spot, she was not too bothered by me and didn’t engage in any games of hide and seek, knowing her place and wading about it, busily piercing the surface of the water with her long beak. I head Westwards along the Northern bank of the pondContinue reading “Thursday 14 January 2021 ~ A circuit”