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Seeking Wild Sights is a collection of nature writer, Jeni Bell’s work, blogs, and photography.
Seeking Wild Sights is a collection of nature writer, Jeni Bell’s work, blogs, and photography.
Tolerating uncertainty is tough enough in our every day lives and it often seems magnified if your chosen way of life is an alternative one. Van Life, Vandwelling, a home on wheels or whatever you want to call it often makes us question what exactly it is that makes us call something home.
We have all got become accustomed with the same things over lockdown. The same routines, the same people, the same walks, and it’s easy to disconnect from it all. After walking the same route everyday for a few weeks, I became despondent, but in learning how to retune to my surroundings, I started to learn to see the familiar in a new light.
New Year’s day is always tinged with excitement,. Faced with a fresh start, I like to wake up early, draw back the curtains and let the world flood in and wait, with anticipation at what my first bird of the New Year will be. Will it be a robin? A house sparrow? Perhaps a heron flying overhead? And to ponder over what message that brings me for the year ahead. Happy New Year everyone.
The wildflowers of spring are slowly giving way to those that belong to the summer days. Without realising the wheel of the year has turned once more and new species are taking their place in our landscapes. A short walk along hedgerow-lined country lanes and into the fields is enough to reveal summers new sentinels.
Have you ever really paid blackbirds much attention? It’s so easy to take this common garden visitor for granted. Their everyday appearances and ever-present songs can easily fade into the back-ground. I’m guilty of that, but with lock down in full swing I’d started to pay more attention to these little gems and feel all the more richer for it.
