#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 30

App challenge is no electrical gadgets for the day.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1012896151224373248?s=19

The times when fireside discussions were the main source of communicating.

Now gone.

Unidentifiable craft via Lord Sugar (Twitter)

            Via Lord Alan Sugar on Twitter

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1012752393283436544?s=19

#nature #30DaysWild app challenge look up at the clouds.

Per chance an unidentifiable craft
cruising through clouds
on the penultimate day of my nature conservation challenge,
celebrating the natural
formations. Achieved.
#APoemADay
@WildLondon
@nature_org

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 29

App challenge is to find growths/lichens in crevices.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1012621827275919360?s=19

This was a challenge that took a while to find as I had to decide whether I should take a photo of growths between walls and pavements.  Then I saw these 2 places on different days over the past 29 days. 

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 28

App challenge is to add a flower decor to your clothing, as an accessory.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1012212524157194240?s=19

Now I can see flowers in a vase as an added accessory.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 27

App challenge is to scatter seeds in places that can't be reached.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1011949399965134848?s=19

The awesome news is, now the plaque that is displayed on the flower seeds stand is to encourage others to think about Wildlife when planting flower seeds.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 26

App challenge is to make a daisy chain.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1011509102193922053?s=19

I couldn't find nice ones to make a chain so I made one for my tote bag.

Daisies are considered wildflowers and weeds.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 25

App challenge is to look at the moon with a periscope  (?).

I don't have one!!

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1011084282197094400?s=19

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 24

App challenge is to see the sunrise

I've seen the sunrise on a cloudy morning and it's like the heavens are bringing in the day with colour!!

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 23

App challenge is to drink some dandelion roots.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1010488686566367232?s=19

I couldn't find dandelion roots so I got some dandelion, burdock and hawthorn tea.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 22

App challenge, Look up at the clouds.
https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1010095578636832768?s=19

I can look up at the clouds all day. It's fascinating to see the different formations ranging from shapes of shallows to ships and animal shapes.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 21

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1009691721716858880?s=19

App challenge turn over a log to discover life what's beneath it.

In the past I've seen the long insects which aren't as flat as cockroaches.

Even nooks and crannies are habitats for insects.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 20

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1009380580398641152?s=19

App challenge go ecofriendly.

I've been making handmade soaps since 2008.
I use a glycerine based as when I went to a craft/fashion market (unless you make tons and tons, storage space plus daily expenses, like with a normal job, leaves nothing gained).

It's very eco friendly and nice to use.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 19

App challenge crochet, paint in the wild.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1009017518030295040?s=19

It has to be experienced.  This has to be one of the best ways of relaxing.

Now I'll make my own bracelets in the wild. 

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 18

App challenge is to use a re-usable cup.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1008652130163613697?s=19

Especially with pollution in the oceans and refuse sites, re-usable cups and containers are a vital part of keeping the air we breathe, breathable. 

When there's litter everywhere and the streets are dirty, it affects our breathing and the hygiene level is low.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 17

App challenge was to shape the book pressed leafs into animal shapes.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1008246930160472065?s=19

The challenges really are worth doing.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 16

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1007968493935976450?s=19

App challenge was to visit a woodland.

A 2-day event is taking place this weekend but trying to find the actual venue area in this woodland proved to be difficult.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 15

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1007575964006735873?s=19

The app challenge was to dip my feet in a river.

It is just as revitalising as walking barefoot on grass. It's like my mind went back to a moment of how it felt natural to be in touch with nature.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 14

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1007147126600630272?s=19

The app challenge was to research a wildflower. These could be Sweet Woodruff.

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 13

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1006818017982976000?s=19

The app challenge is to collect some leaves and press them between books.

I pressed flowered in a cheap flower press when I was at school. It can fill a book of flowers in no time!

Olly Murs and his winning team

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1006466081446354944?s=19

            Photo credit: Olly Murs (Twitter)

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 12

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1006445692469080064?s=19

I've never really subscribed to a gym as it doesn't compare to exercising in the open air. Besides the cost,  the view is nicer and exercising when it's raining a little is an experience never to be forgotten. 

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 11

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1006106980233175043?s=19

The app challenge is to see the changes that take place after an hour.

2 hours later...

#30 Days Wild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 10

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1005844526454493184?s=19

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 9

London Wildlife Trust app challenge:
Pick up litter.

If we all put our own litter in public bins which are everywhere,  parks will be even more beautiful.

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1005376319717244929?s=19

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 8

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1005028648125108224?s=19

CBS New York - Lunchtime Zen: New York Botanical Garden

MyBeBee TV - Elephant trying out the currents in the ocean

North Cascades National Park via Joseph Bollag (Facebook)

               Photo credit: Joseph Bollag (Facebook)


I love nature. I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. -Thoreau

#30DaysWild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 7

https://twitter.com/a_naturespath/status/1004689846554841088?s=19

#30DaysWild Poem in the wild
A pathway perceived
sounds of nature
amplifies a return 2 that
original state.

A glimpse acknowledged
sights of regaining
by-passed moments
precisely envisaged.

An eclectic re-visit
of surrounds, timeless
Forgotten
Now a requisite.
#APoemADay https://t.co/tURtvESuqe

Poem by Elias Dafoe

I’ve nowhere to turn, in the city alight
For my love has gone, on endless night
Look inward my love and you will see
A burning flame, ‘tis meant to be

© Elias Dafoe

Photo credit: Simon Robben

#30 Days Wild – London Wildlife Trust – day 6

The challenge I chose today was a recording of birds twittering.  Was beautiful to listen to!

#30DaysWild The challenge I chose today was a recording of birds @twitter ing.
Sing me a twitter,
birds of a feather
Sing me a song
'Til the sun goes down.#APoemADay pic.twitter.com/yYMMQhPuhZ

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 6 June 2018

Say 'No' to Single-Use Plastics

On #WorldEnvironmentDay we reaffirm our commitment to phasing out single-use plastics across all Club operations. #PassOnPlastic pic.twitter.com/lJxDg780eT

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) 5 June 2018

Say no to single-use plastics.
Re-use, re-cycle bottles and make this a habit.#COYS#APoemADay https://t.co/NWPynAu3hy

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 6 June 2018

#30 Days Wild – London Wildlife Trust – day 5

All photographs copyright of Penny Little ©

#30DaysWild (app suggestions - short story about wildlife) https://t.co/yEfBgkk9p4

Foxes are animals we should not harm,
let a wildlife sanctuary protect them as we learn.#APoemADay https://t.co/VSh2k4LgYG

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 5 June 2018

Roena the grey Sciurus carolinensis, better known as the Eastern gray squirrel, had never ventured further than the garden with the small apple tree that yielded green, stumpy, tart apples.

At around 12 mid-day, as if propelled by an invisible hand, she’d turn to face the sun, as it scorched the lavender buds in the tiny city garden that has been her home since a juvenile.  She stops nibbling on the apple tree bark and almost stands tall with her tiny front paw to her chest – to greet a plane flying high above altitude towards the Atlantic Ocean, where some of her ancestry roots originated.  Her distant relatives were also from Eurasia and Africa yet as far as she knew, her parents were born not far from this garden with the apple tree.  They stayed nearby because of the colourful array of flowering blossoms in the summer months, food that would usually last them through the first few weeks of summer.

As the plane flew over the garden, she sped past the saxifraga urbiums, better known as the Prattling Parnells or Whimseys, towards the masterworts and crane’s bills for a quick snack before hurtling headlong into the makeshift water fountain made of flower pots moulded together with a base plate on top,  filled with rain water from the previous day’s downpour.

When Drapper the garden frog saw Roena bulldozing towards the fountain, he scarpered across the daisies and over to a  large rock where he hid, gloating,

‘why can’t she see I was there first?’ he croaked angrily.

‘Always jumping the queue!’ he splutterd as he wisped his tongue out for a passing aphid.  

‘Never, considering others’, he moaned.

Just then Freddie the Fox stopped Drapper in his tracks as he loomed dangerously close, almost snatching Drapper by the leg.  Drapper being adept at jumping hedges. fences and ponds, leapt up so fast that Freddie, briefly blinded by the glare of the mid-day sun, took a step back and nearly lost his balance as he gingerly walked on the ledge.

‘Hey you!’ shouted Boz from the kitchen window.  ‘Scoot!’.

Then he clanged the soup ladle against the base of a frying pan so loud, Frozby the cat meowed loudly,

‘What’s going on?!’ screeched the cat out loud. 

‘I was sleeping!!  Can’t you see?!’ yelled the cat.

 

Boz looked ferociously at Frozby to stop meowing like a demented feline and with that, he got a dishcloth and shooed the cat over to a far corner of the living room, with an ultimatum,

‘Shut it, Frozzies!!  Shut it!!’

The noise woke up the neighbour’s baby who started crying non-stop and that got the neighbour vexed for all the commotion next door.

‘What’s going on?!’ she shouted out across the fence to Boz.

‘It’s that ratty fox again! Trying to get to the bins and..’  He returned.

Just then the doorbell rang.  

Boz stopped in mid sentence and turned towards the passage way.  He walked towards the door and when he got there, he looked through the spy hole.

It was Keith the Postie.

Boz opened the door and greeted Keith with that pie-in-the-sky look, face bright red.

Keith handed him his post.  Boz took it and waved him goodbye until the next time.

As he was about to go back into the kitchen, he noticed a leaflet with some attached photos,

‘If you see a wild animal like a fox in your garden, please do not harm them.  We at the animal sanctuary are making sure wild animals like foxes are kept away from residential areas.  We are doing our best to protect local wildlife and keeping residential areas safe.’

Boz looked at the photos attached to the leaflet and saw photos of volunteers releasing wild animals back into the wild.  Other photos showed wild animals being rescued and rehabilitated so that they can return back to the forests and not harm humans.

Boz grabbed his phone and rang the number on the leaflet.

‘Hel-lo, yes, what do you do exactly at the animal wildlife sanctuary?’

(For more Boz, my neighbour and more stories, please do not hesitate to visit:

My neighbour, Boz and other narrative prose )

CBS New York - Central Park

The World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council wants YOU to join them in celebrating the ocean this June!

The World Oceans Day Youth Advisory Council wants YOU to join them in celebrating the ocean this June! Visit the website to find events and check out the new Plastic Pollution Lesson Plan. https://t.co/eReOmf9b77 pic.twitter.com/N060nWofhR

— World Oceans Day (@WorldOceansDay) 4 June 2018

Historic England - The Suffragette Emily Davison

The suffragette Emily Davison was hit by the King's horse on this day in 1913.

Her grave reads 'DEEDS NOT WORDS' https://t.co/o6jpnf8wxL #HerStories #Vote100 pic.twitter.com/bsryfNAhhy

— Historic England (@HistoricEngland) 4 June 2018

#30 Days Wild – London Wildlife Trust – day 4

#30DaysWild

Barefoot on grass
is exhilarating.
The feeling of re-energising
is inexplicably gratifying.
Nature is simply awe-inspiring.#APoemADay
(And excellent suggestion on the app) pic.twitter.com/gWflbyW22G

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) June 4, 2018

Denmark by the river

This photo could be your life. Find out how make your life more hygge via our test below. #thedanishantidote

— VisitDenmark (@GoVisitDenmark) 15 May 2018

Sir Alex Ferguson on the road to recovery

Great news that Sir Alex Ferguson is out of hospital, back home & determined to make United's first home game of the new season.
I can't even imagine the scale of roaring that will greet him if he does. pic.twitter.com/OGXzTCZcmd

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) 3 June 2018

30 Days Wild – London Wildlife Trust – day 3

#30DaysWild Another suggestion was to make a wrist band with grass blades. I couldn't find grass blades long enough to make a band so I decorated my watch just now. pic.twitter.com/w5v2VDxZbz

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) June 3, 2018

#time to #think of #nature 's #path
be that person consistently conserving #wildlife 's ways for future's worth.#APoemADay https://t.co/QTXJTbY6XP

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) June 3, 2018

The Tiny Speck that I am

#Day2 of #30DaysWild sent in by Lucy Owens from our Facebook group - 'We were going to ‘nap in nature’ not much napping went on, but we had a chat with some cows!' Brilliant 😂🐮🐄 pic.twitter.com/tlyTIzEJum

— 30 Days Wild (@30DaysWild) 2 June 2018

The tiny speck that I am,
is nature telling me
I have a small place in
the scheme of things.
Nothing grand.
Nothing of essence.#APoemADay https://t.co/qqwmZNI955

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 2 June 2018

30 Days Wild - London Wildlife Trust - day 2

#30DaysWild this morning I hugged a tree. Must be quite old as it's difficult to hug. pic.twitter.com/vNTGBjWJbk

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 2 June 2018

Aestas, or Poems of Walter Daniel. Copyright (c) 1991 - 2018 by Walter Daniel. All Rights Reserved.

A Queen and a Fool 

A dialogue 

Queen. I'm reading "Aestas". 

Do you know who has written this? 

Fool. You are wrong. "Aestas" is a work in progress. Walter Daniel is still writing that. 

Queen. Who is Walter Daniel? 

Fool. A poet and translator, above all. 

Queen. What poem does he aim to provide? 

Fool. "Aestas" is a long sequence of poems that are built around various semantic layers. (sigh)

Modest whores are sagacious, 

So let them read Walter's works; 

Idle princesses are salacious, 

So let them devour Walter's words. 

Queen. How can I contact him? 

Fool. Send e-mail to anapaest at gmail dot com. 

Queen. What painters does he prefer most? 

Fool. Jackson Pollock, Camille Pissarro, Georgia O'Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Odilon Redon, Claude Monet, John Atkinson Grimshaw, Alfred Sisley, Joan Milo. 

Queen. To what music does he remain loyal? 

Fool. Works of Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Gyorgy Ligeti. 

Queen. What literature does he read? 

Fool. Works of Rabindranath Tagore, Christian Morgenstern, William Shakespeare, Friedrich Hölderlin, Hermann Broch, William Butler Yeats, Paul Celan, Rainer Maria Rilke . . . 

Queen. . . . And? 

Fool. Günter Eich, Hermann Hesse, John M. Synge, Pablo Neruda, E. E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.  

Queen. Doesn't Walter Daniel read "Finnegans Wake"? 

Fool. He reads it and admires the author. [Aside] Only for her majesty's sake. 

Queen. Where does Walter Daniel live? 

Fool. Liveable or unbelievable, places to live are peripheral on the Atlantic's rim. 

Queen. What do you mean? 

Fool. The sun is white, and grass is green. 

Queen. Is the sun white? 

Fool. If grass is green, wake me at midnight. If the sun is dark, I'll paint it bright. 

Queen. Pray for the sun! 

Fool. I'm sorry, I'm not your son. 

Queen. What did Walter Daniel read for his degrees? 

Fool. German literature for undergraduate research, mathematical economics for graduate research, paid excessive fees. 

Queen. What subjects are counted as his interest? 

Fool. Latin grammar and prosody and versification at no cost. 

Queen. What does he recommend? 

Fool. Be wise and righteous, so you don't need to pretend.

 Money increases everyone's greed,
 Greedy traders will end up in jail;
 Good education makes us gracious,
 Alas, wisdom is but no one's jewel. 

[Exeunt.

Aestas, or Poems of Walter Daniel. Copyright (c) 1991 - 2018 by Walter Daniel. All Rights Reserved.

My Fly-By-Night plans

Surprise clue 1 for Carly and Styles!: Your secret destination is home to a huge public space -one of the oldest in the US - dating back nearly 200 years, and home to many of the city's top museums and gardens. #surprisevacation #summergetaway #flamingo pic.twitter.com/tx8PA7njsU

— The Vacation Hunt (@TheVacationHunt) 31 May 2018

My fly-by-night plans
didst escape my notice.
Green is not my colour,
by day, nor flying in splendour.#APoemADay

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 1 June 2018

30 Days Wild - London Wildlife Trust - Day 1

#30DaysWild - one of the choices were, a sketch of a wild landscape
here's mine: pic.twitter.com/jDU94BQOIk

— A Naturespath (@a_naturespath) 1 June 2018