http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nUG28mYIqc
I don’t know about you but the more I hear and see on the news the more I need something ‘nice’ and simple. No big debates, no big opinions, no big conspiracies, no big injustices, just ‘nice’…
Tag Archives: nature
Boat House
Back In The Mountains
Another road trip this week took me back to the mountains in glorious spring sunshine 🙂
Jumping The Stream
https://soundcloud.com/mike-howe-1/jumping-the-stream-by-mike
This song was written about the childlike thrill I always get when I have to cross a stream, whether it be a short hop over the narrows, or when it’s one of those when you have to take a running jump, never quite knowing if you’ve got enough lift to reach the far bank…I’m sure you know what I mean 🙂
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/time-stands-still/id323005000
Web of Life
Understanding the relationship between nature and how land is used is at the heart of what I do in conservation management planning. Today I was back at historic Dinefwr learning how an ancient deer park…
with ancient trees planted 500 years ago…
that is grazed by the descendants of those first fallow deer…
with a good helping of clean, warm, wet, Welsh air, can provide perfect conditions for lichen communities that can take hundreds of years to become established, and only if conditions are just right…
Once the relationships are understood, making the appropriate management decisions is relatively easy. These rare lichens need light, open conditions on old parkland trees that grow without competition from neighbours or smothering from ivy and scrub. Grazing livestock create these conditions, and a deer park created in the 1700’s is the perfect place to find them.
And lots of other wildlife also benefits, from beautiful woodpeckers, red kites, treecreepers, to tiny beetles living in the dead wood and even tinier yellow meadow ants who make their anthills in the ancient grassland…
Winter Sea…
Stunningly Beautiful Photographs Now Online
Many of you who follow my blog will be familiar with the beautiful photographs I often post by Mike Alexander. I’m very proud to announce that my brother Rod has built a website called Scapeimages.com to host hundreds of Mike’s stunning photographs, where they can be bought, licensed and downloaded, or simply enjoyed by browsing through such a fantastic catalogue of work!
I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s about time that Mikes wonderful work is available to the world! Do your senses a favour and have a look 🙂
The Ancient Holly
River of Blue Light
I went back to the mountains this week. Out for a walk in the quiet forest as the late winter afternoon light grew dim, long before I could see it I could hear the sound of the river torrent and the rapids swollen by so much recent rain. And then as I emerged through the dense pine branches dripping with a gentle rain, a bright river of blue and white light appeared and the roar grew deafening in complete contrast to the silence of the surrounding forest…
Currently Playing On American Airlines
This song was inspired by the beautiful book of the same name by David Petersen and features acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards and drums. I’m very glad to learn that it has been soothing the journey of a few air travellers in the US 🙂
Mike Howe 