Tag: Nature
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Yellow Brain Fungus
With its bright yellow colour this fungus will brighten up your day when you spot it while you are out walking. It is a jelly fungus and as the name suggests it looks a bit like a yellow brain. Unusually it doesn’t grow on dead wood itself but is parasitic and feeds on other fungi…
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New Year, New Start
This time of the year gives us the opportunity to reflect on the year that has passed and to look forward to the coming year. Life is for new experiences and the making of memories so by getting out walking you create them. Each walk is unique regardless of how many times you have walked…
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Robins
Over the Christmas period robins are on the look out for a mate and are more vocal in their singing. In the 19th century postmen wore bright red uniforms and got the nickname robin or redbreast. Robins then made an appearance on Christmas cards to represent the postmen delivering them. The robins breast feathers are…
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Jack Frost, Mischief Maker
The mischievous Jack Frost has been out creating his magic while we have slept. Covering trees and other objects with white feathery ice crystals, hoar frost, creating a surreal landscape. The name is derived from the Old English, har, meaning white or grey with age as the frost looks like white hairs. And now the…
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Winter Wonderland
The first snows of winter have now arrived in the Scottish Borders covering the landscape in a blanket of white. This gives us a great opportunity to wrap up warm, head out and immerse ourselves in the countryside which now looks so different from what we are used to seeing. It can make walking hard…
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