#NoticingNature Concluding thoughts
I didn't feel the exercise enhanced my happiness, but more of a chore to photograph something every day. I already notice and reflect on small things, and take joy in the common. Perhaps I could always do it more, and make more conscious effort to get out and about in my local green space each day.
To sign off this #WorldMentalHealthDay, here are two more photos from Day 12.
Noticing Nature Day 14
A peek into my nearly ready compost exposed these extraordinary red tiger worms (picture hidden, as I know people with a worm phobia). Together with a colony of huge pale-green slugs, they've chomped through pounds and pounds of grass, peel, eggshells, receipts, etc etc etc.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Composting #CircularEconomy
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 13
Lying in the hammock (in October!), listening to the starlings whooping and chuckling, and gazing vacantly up at the rose growing over the pergola. Feeling content and happy in the moment, despite cause for concern. It seems it is a good year for hips and haws.
[Update: Oops, forgot the photo!]
#NoticingNature #Nature
#ClimateBreakdown
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 12
Great walk today in the autumn sun circumambulating Burrator Reservoir. Love the combinations of blues, greens, browns, greys. So not quite all nature. There's plenty of human intervention too. But I feel incredibly grateful to live in such a beautiful part of the world.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Dartmoor #Devon
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 11
I love the 'daisies' under my front doorstep, greeting me cheerily when I venture out into the world and welcoming me when I return home. And because I have to step over it, I can't not look at it and appreciate it.
(actually Erigeron karvinskianus, Mexican fleabane)
#NoticingNature #Nature
#BloomScrolling
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Also for #NationalPoetryDay, Aly the Riddler-in-Residence was in Exeter Cathedral, so I popped in to meet her and write a couple of #haiku
Another record...
Sunning ourselves on the Green
While the planet burns
From a bug's eye view
The grass is riddled with weeds
(If you call them that)
#Poetry #ClimateEmergency #NoticingNature
https://www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/learning-collections/riddler-in-residence/
Riddler in Residence The Riddler in Residence project works with a range of local community groups, including families, young people and formal education settings, with the aim of inspiring them to creatively connect with their heritage. The Riddler in Residence project is supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Aly Stoneman August – November 2023 Our […]
Noticing Nature Day 10
Beautiful borlotti, runner and french beans; sugar snap peas; and I think some nasturtium seeds in amongst. Looking forward to eating these, or sowing them next year. Nature is bountiful.
#NoticingNature #Nature #Harvest
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 9
It is the season to notice nature inside the house: the creepy crawlies that make their way in as it cools outside; the fly currently buzzing around the room, which will be dead on the floor in the morning; and the guest(s) scrabbling above my head in the evenings. Today these humane mouse traps arrived in the post... to remove them before they chew through something important!
Noticing Nature Day 8
The oxygenating starwort in my mini-pond is thriving, perhaps too much! Hopefully I'll be able to share some in my local community or in the Exeter Seed Swap.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Pondlife #Sharing
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Noticing Nature Day 7
A morning of mist and mizzle, and pearly droplets resting on grass and weeds. My eye delights in the collected light on this dandelion leaf, orbiting the twin daisy suns.
#NoticingNature #Nature
#Nebel #Nieselregen #BloomScrolling
#MentalHealth #ScienceOfHappiness
Clare Bryden