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03/06/2026

Turns out butterflies are good company.

I went in expecting to chase them around with a lens, all stealth and patience, waiting for one to hold still long enough. Instead one decided my camera strap was the place to be and simply stayed. Landed on the photographer rather than posing for the camera, which felt like a small comment on my technique.

They are far friendlier than I gave them credit for. I had them filed away as flighty, the sort of thing that vanishes the second you lift a camera. But the longer I stood still, the more they settled. On leaves, on flowers, on me.

Stop chasing, stand still, and they decide for themselves. The butterflies worked that out long before I did.

01/06/2026

There was a moment, away from families, away from walkers, around a bend, where the vista across the water was simply mine.

Nobody else had stopped. Or more likely they had all walked straight past it, busy getting somewhere, while I stopped because the light on the water told me to.

Still trees. Still water. A far bank softening into haze. These spots do not reveal themselves easily. You have to wander off the path and be willing to be on your own for a minute to find them. Most people are not, and I think that is rather the point.
Worth every step around the bend.

31/05/2026

Sunday, done right.

Tucked into the reeds, half in shade, water barely moving. Not waiting for anything. Not going anywhere.

There is a particular kind of stillness that wild things do effortlessly, and the rest of us spend years trying to learn. No rush. No checking the time. Just sitting in the cool of the water and letting the day go past.

I think the goose is onto something.

29/05/2026

Tall trees. Thick foliage. Cooler temperatures. And the particular quiet that only a forest can offer.

Sometimes you don’t need to go far. You just need to go

28/05/2026

A very noisy visitor this morning. First time we met face to beak.

I have heard him talking before, loud and completely unbothered by whether anyone was listening. But today he came to the trellis and stayed long enough for a proper introduction.

Working in the garden is enlightening. When I am out there with a book, I miss all of this entirely. Buried in the pages while nature sings and dances around me, apparently. The garden has been going on without my permission for quite some time.

I have decided this is where I will drink my morning coffee from now on. Six days of good weather will do that to you. It will also make you temporarily forget what the UK weather is actually like.

But for now. Coffee. Magpie. Garden. ☀️

27/05/2026

What started as photographing flowers turned into something more interesting entirely.

A white rose. A foxglove. Both beautiful. Both very much occupied.

The bumblebee I understood. Disappearing headfirst into the foxglove bell, collecting pollen, doing exactly what bumblebees do. But the tiny red mite on the rose petal, and the fly perched on the foxglove? Those made me look twice.

Flies, it turns out, are genuine pollinators. Quietly overlooked, frequently underestimated, visiting flowers for nectar and transferring pollen as they go. The tiny red mite is likely feeding on the plant itself, a less welcome but entirely natural guest.

Flowers are rarely just decorative. They are ecosystems in miniature. Busy, purposeful, full of life we walk past without noticing.

25/05/2026

Nothing brings people out into nature faster than good weather. ☀️

London this weekend. People walking, sitting, watching, just being. Jacket slung over a shoulder. A couple finding a patch of grass. The city moving at a different pace for one afternoon.

There is something quietly wonderful about watching a city exhale. When the sun appears, Londoners do not hesitate. They are out. In the parks, on the grass, under the trees. Making the most of every minute of it.

As they should.

24/05/2026

I have said it before and I will say it again. There are spirits living in trees. 🌳

Sometimes, if you are still enough and quiet enough, you can see them peeking through their veil. The hollows that look like eyes. The knots that form into faces. The old wood that reaches and twists as though it is mid-thought.

Do you see them too?

Epping Forest today. The hottest day of the year so far in London, but under the canopy it was cooler, quieter, and somehow older. The forest has been here long enough to have its own weather. Its own time. Its own residents.

23/05/2026

One of the hottest days of the year. There was only one place to be. ☀️

London in the sun. There is genuinely nothing like it.

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