Nature Journal • September / October

Autumn is perhaps my favourite season, the time of apple harvests and berries,
when the leaves change from lush green to all sorts of colours -
mushrooms grow in more abundance than usually.
Some of my favourites are the fairy fly agarics and birch milkcaps.
I find them in a little birch forest close to my home.
Autumn feels like a preparation to go inwards for the coming winter,
picking pumpkins and finding birch polypore bracket fungus slowly eating their way through dying birch trees. Now
the sun lingers in a different way,
low in the branches of the birch trees
the yellow leaves and russula fungus pushing through the rotting leaves. The
oak makes fruit, if not this year maybe next (or another year all together
) and we collect the rowan berries, make rowan jellies, maybe watch them sway in the wind as their leaves curl and turn golden in the sunlight
like the sycamore and elms,
This season the air feels soggy but embracing-
I like to push my fingers into the
piles of leaves that melt into the ground. Plenty of joy comes from autumn decay.
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[@yaneta1987]

You don’t have any idea how your videos had carried me thru my toughest moments! They truly lift up my heart ♥️

[@tercaytorpehastaelfinal73]

Me encanto 😍 saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷

[@leesart3193]

Thank you for the good video.~♡

[@ExLibris-Alys]

Lovely vlog, and I love what you’ve written above too, you really do like autumn! 🍂☺️

[@VictoriaPichel]

such a cosy lovely vlog! Your illustrations are so good! xx

[@cerridwencottage4778]

So lovely (as usual). Miss your vlogs. Bright Blessings

[@ForagingGardener]

I'll film one again so soon, recently moved and needed to work a lot on my uni essays. Thank you and blessings to you :-)

[@alfanhui93]

Loved it!

[@liliancorzo5334]

Lovely as always. Thanks.

[@theresaliebert3966]

Could you please make a video about your sourdough starter and your bread making process? Thank you! I hope you are doing well!

[@deborahcarcacherosales7688]

Hello💜 I love your videos!!
I have a question, I wish I could learn much more about mycology and botany, which you recommend to me to carry out individual studies and be able to learn??

[@amie3529]

Greetings

[@Jennian_M]

Where is this forest?

[@ForagingGardener]

it's lots of different places, the one I film most is at Arthurs Seat Edinburgh :-)