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Martin Brown
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Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
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https://fairsnape.substack.com/
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A little November Herb Robert and Gorse colour spotted this week, … @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#BeaconFell #Lancashire
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I caught this evening …
Windhover, Kestrel, against Earth shadow at sundown, a connection to wild, spiritual, transcendent Hopkins prose
#NoticingNature #NatureWriting
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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… across the sound, Cuillin of Skye and Rum compete for attention silohetted purple before the setting haze of sienna sunlight
November 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Wonderful atmospherics today on #Knoydart “Britains Last Wildnerness” where sea, sky, mountain dance with light
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Enjoyed today’s ‘A Write Highland Hoolie’ @ Mallaig Book Festival
Gravity of Feathers, Hebridean Baker, Coinneach MacLeod
Alexander McCall Smith,
#StKilda #NatureWriting #Gaelic #Story #Humour
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The call of the Curlew catches the air over Morecambe Bay.

#charcoal #pleinair #sketching from Hest Bank looking to Cumbrian fells, these evocative calls, rising, falling, bubbling, quickens the heart, calms the soul, lifts the spirit.
💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
October 27, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Tonight the skies are red,
So red they fill my eyes Sundown on barren words that can't describe
Your island paradise

Runrig: In Search of Angels

Some experiences like sunsets can be transcendent, exceeding our ability to capture in language

#scape #skyscape #sunscape #naturewriting #BeaconFell
Yellows, crimsons, indigo sky at sunset.
October 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Light, the story within ...
Exploring Gaelic circadian expressions.
#watercolour #naturewriting
my latest #RegenNotes substack

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October 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Zoom Regenerative: Myths we live by. Metaphor as a tool for powerful change. Tonight 14/10 8pm with Annalise Lewis
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October 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#Relax #BlueSkyPhotography …
‘time in nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’

‘tha fois san nàdar’ #LearningGaelic
#naturewriting
Autumnal sunset from Beacon Fell, sun setting across grassland. Camera image has captured rays spreading out across the landscape. Grassland edged by pine forest. Words ‘Tha fois san nàdar’ translates as ‘there is relaxation in nature’ (in my very basic learning of Scottish Gaelic) Words ‘nature restores our spirits, calms our minds, and reconnects us with something essential and healing’ come from my writing. Image taken on Beacon Fell Lancashire Sept 25
October 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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An ancient conversation, a secret whispered, symbiosis in a micro metropolis … relishing in delights of exploring garden moss, lichen, slime mold and more in such a colourful micro ecosystem 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Feeling the Pull of the Equinox with thoughts on balance and reciprocity
💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #ForestOfBowland
(September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle Hill)
September Sunrise from Beacon Fell looking towards Pendle
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Nature’s #angles

Where every pattern,
every line, every angle
shines in reciprocity.
An interconnected
web of life,
in autumn's heather,
hues of purple,
mauve, and pink.

💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

#BlueSkyArtShow #web #photography #nature
#NoticingNature
#PoetryWithUs
Photo shows shining sounders web, woven across and within autumn flowering heather. Hues of purples, mauve and pink.
September 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Blustery on Bowland Fells this week … loving the simple feel of #pleinair charcoal sketching

Friday #Scape #landscape #ForestOfBowland #Fairsnape
#Charcoal #BlueskyArt
#PoetryWithinUs
Charcoal sketch of Bowland fells in Lancashire, capturing the blustery feeling. Smooth fells sweep across the sketch, darker patches of outcrop or darker grass in left bottom corner. Fence line and posts leading the eye towards Fairsnape, the highest fell in this area
September 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #currentread #RogerDeakin
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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From the southern edge of Beacon Fell we watched storm squalls, like grey smoke serpents, barrel across Amounderness, Winter Hill and Ribble Valley, bringing to life the Met Office’s measled radar chart 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting #scape #cloudscape #rainscape #ForestOfBowland #watercolour
Watercolour sketch depicting storm squalls moving across landscape. (Overly)Dark grey and blue clouds with rain falling in funnels onto distant hills Sketch book clips showing yo edges, signed by artist.
September 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A layered end of #summer feel: 3 buzzards gliding, cruising, keening high under a mackerel cloud sky, no doubt observing a ‘richness’ of excited swallows below, whilst a ‘kaleidoscope’ of Red Adirmals feed on rotting apples and pears at ground level 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting
#BlueskyArtShow
September 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Giving it all away?
#poet #poetry #creativity #BeingHuman #NatureWriting
September 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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#BlueskyArtShow #Shiny
Hebridean Sunset
#JohnMuir
#EastCoastKin #Photography
Peaceful sunset looking west from Skye with the sun low and orange over the Outer Hebrides
August 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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From this time of year, with our skyview, we are treated to winter sunrises until sun turns back, winter to spring, potentially 227 days of awe & wonder chemical stimulation, glorious circadian regulation & a reminder how we still have a deep connection to seasonal solar rhythms
#sunscape #skyscape
Sunrising over village buildings and village green, illuminating underside of clouds Sunlight short lived though as sun obscured and diffused by cloud a few minutes later.
August 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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#bloomscrolling
August 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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#Scape #Landscape
Sun setting over Lakeland fells #LakeDistrict
#EastCoastKin #FellPhotography #wildcamp
Evening high in the English Lake District. Figure to the left looks out over last rays as the sun dips behind Lakeland fells and low cloud to the west
August 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Rare and fragile …
Suffolk Coastal Vegetated Shingle for #WildFlowerHour
Sea kale, yellow horned poppy and sea pea
August 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Glittering silver-shod sea of grasses billowing through early evening Bowland fell sunlight, transposed overnight, a landscape robed with mauve and purple-hued heathers in early morning sun #NatureWriting #MicroMoments
August 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Lammas: Mindful Baking ...
Baking with reflection, "my regular practice seems deeper, linked to one our oldest traditions. to both celebrate and reflect as the seasons turn"
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August 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM