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Martin Brown

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Traveller on the regenerative journey. Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour Host @ Zoom Regenerative Writer @ Regen/Notes + Author FutuREstorative +++ Forest of Bowland See: https://fairsnape.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/martin_brown

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 2d

Fungi and other finds from a visit to the Great Wood near Keswick in the English Lake District last week - particularly exciting to find Hen-of-the-woods (Maitake) which I’ve never found before, it’s not common in the UK. Pen and watercolour sketches.
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#fungi #lichen #plants
#fungiFriends #art

Ink and watercolour sketches of finds from Derwentwater, UK - lichen, acorns, horse chestnut case, honey fungi, grey knight fungi, amethyst deceiver fungi, hen of the woods (maitake) fungi and bonnet fungi.

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 2d

Light, the story within ...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 2d

Zoom Regenerative: Myths we live by. Metaphor as a tool for powerful change. Tonight 14/10 8pm with Annalise Lewis
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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 3d

A Zero Carbon Building

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12d

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax #BlueSkyPhotography …
‘time in nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’

‘tha fois san nàdar’ #LearningGaelic
#naturewriting

Autumnal sunset from Beacon Fell, sun setting across grassland. Camera image has captured rays spreading out across the landscape. Grassland edged by pine forest.

Words ‘Tha fois san nàdar’ translates as ‘there is relaxation in nature’ (in my very basic learning of Scottish Gaelic)

Words ‘nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ come from my writing.

Image taken on Beacon Fell Lancashire Sept 25

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 12d

Psithurism walk. The urgent susurration of wind through ash, the rushing sway across fell-land grasses, the tidal roar through pines. …

#Psithurism and #susurration - lovely words describing whisper of wind through leafs 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15d

@rachelape.bsky.social hi, good to connect, was the quote montage yours?

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 15d

Love this quote

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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 16d

Lovely piece from @amyjanebeer.bsky.social about those all-important, positive relationships & encounters with farmers.
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Country diary: An unexpected vista of sky-light and symmetry | Amy-Jane Beer

Yorkshire Wolds: What a difference a few years makes – this used to be an expanse of wet mud, now it’s a precious chalkland pond

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 16d

Come the dawn, come the day, come the colours sienna, crimson with indigo, aerial isles under stratocumulus. Beyond the village cross crows arrive for daily gathering on bones of the ash. Are they feeling colours changing with seasons turn at September’s end 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 18d

Never seen apples so red & clustered as this. A result of earlier pollination & recent warm days, cooler nights. Seems neither have tits, blackbirds, thrushes who break-feast in morning mist. Below, fallen are pulled into natures soil cycle by earthworm bioturbation 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you!
@jenratcliffe.bsky.social

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22d

Yep, any ideas?

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22d

I think bottom right is cord moss but the red above it I am still working on id-ing (I like to think type of slime mold but could be a beech canker fungus 🤔) Any ideas welcomed!

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22d

An ancient conversation, a secret whispered, symbiosis in a micro metropolis … relishing in delights of exploring garden moss, lichen, slime mold and more in such a colourful micro ecosystem 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 22d

Mast year symbiosis: extending beyond chance … flowers and pollinators consciously helping each other out?
Kate Bradbury #naturewriting on a #interconnectedness and #kinship we barely understand or imagine in this mornings Country Diary
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Country diary: The allotment is flying at full mast

Hove, East Sussex: I’m greeting friends with juice and jam and taking plums to the pub, although, there is still some mystery surrounding ‘mast’ years

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 23d

Feeling the Pull of the Equinox with thoughts on balance and reciprocity
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)

September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 23d

‘loaded with the electricity of enchantment … tracing aerial pathways that link the present to the deep past … we are enclosed in the centre of this 300m-year-old whisper’

Paul Evans wonderful Guardian Country Diary celebrates the sound of the dragonfly www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

Country diary: The sound of a dragonfly is a 300m-year-old whisper | Paul Evans

The Marches, Shropshire: It’s almost inaudible to us, but it’s there, a gentle turbulence with a percussive clicking, ancient and electric

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 25d

After a day of wet rinse cycle weather, we wake to call of wren, blackbird & pigeon. The rising sun cuts gold between clear cerulean bluesky and dark green of land. Later, as sunlight touches the top of the orchard trees, you can sense the apples stretching & smiling. 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26d

Thank you Jen

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 26d

Nature’s #angles

Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.

💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs

Photo shows shining sounders web, woven across and within autumn flowering heather. Hues of purples, mauve and pink.

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Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 27d

Blustery on Bowland Fells this week … loving the simple feel of #pleinair charcoal sketching

Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs

Charcoal sketch of Bowland fells in Lancashire, capturing the blustery feeling.

Smooth fells sweep across the sketch, darker patches of outcrop or darker grass in left bottom corner.
Fence line and posts leading the eye towards Fairsnape, the highest fell in this area

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 27d

Light breaks a steely grey, oddly balancing with another season imagery of Lark Ascending playing on radio. Land feels resting after gales, yet forecast has more storm before low temps & sun to mark coming equinox. A celebration of light/dark & reciprocity balance 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social · 29d

On a blustery, sunny gap between showers, we ‘walked the hedge’ A potential community project to lay a line of Hawthorn prominently decorated with red haws. Clusters of bright berries marking the coming transition into autumn 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting