Susannah
@susannahmccarthy.bsky.social
Living and writing Nature and Night on the chalk downs of Kent ~ Granta Nature Writing alum ~ exploring the world of darkness ~ guiding women into the night ~
This is so beautiful. And so ... blinding.
"Simply put, light pollution is excessive and inappropriate artificial light at night." - darksky.org
"Let there be night" - Paul Bogard
"See the dark. Be awake in its ancient cradle" - Lyanda Lynn Haupt
#nocturnal #nightphotography #wildlife
"Simply put, light pollution is excessive and inappropriate artificial light at night." - darksky.org
"Let there be night" - Paul Bogard
"See the dark. Be awake in its ancient cradle" - Lyanda Lynn Haupt
#nocturnal #nightphotography #wildlife
October 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is so beautiful. And so ... blinding.
"Simply put, light pollution is excessive and inappropriate artificial light at night." - darksky.org
"Let there be night" - Paul Bogard
"See the dark. Be awake in its ancient cradle" - Lyanda Lynn Haupt
#nocturnal #nightphotography #wildlife
"Simply put, light pollution is excessive and inappropriate artificial light at night." - darksky.org
"Let there be night" - Paul Bogard
"See the dark. Be awake in its ancient cradle" - Lyanda Lynn Haupt
#nocturnal #nightphotography #wildlife
Instead of having a shower today I had a dip in the river. Tested it first - under 0.05 phosphate. All good and bracing!! #nature #river #kentnature
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Instead of having a shower today I had a dip in the river. Tested it first - under 0.05 phosphate. All good and bracing!! #nature #river #kentnature
@thelrm.bsky.social arrived today - can't wait. Interested to see how Eastbourne got in there! Love a bit of #psychogeography
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@thelrm.bsky.social arrived today - can't wait. Interested to see how Eastbourne got in there! Love a bit of #psychogeography
Kulmbo - proto-celtic word meaning THREAD - of weaving or tale or story. On our night retreat we wove with rushes and herbs. We wove in stories of mothers and grandmothers in nature. And oh! Their stories - tigers in the garden, mothers on mountaintops. #writing #writingcommunity #night
October 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kulmbo - proto-celtic word meaning THREAD - of weaving or tale or story. On our night retreat we wove with rushes and herbs. We wove in stories of mothers and grandmothers in nature. And oh! Their stories - tigers in the garden, mothers on mountaintops. #writing #writingcommunity #night
"Water voles should be common ~ For them to be threatened with extinction across an entire country is an indictment .." Good news @amyjanebeer.bsky.social reintroduction + American mink management = ~ ~ evidence of the water vole! These are vole 'needles in sedge stacks' along the River Darent.
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Water voles should be common ~ For them to be threatened with extinction across an entire country is an indictment .." Good news @amyjanebeer.bsky.social reintroduction + American mink management = ~ ~ evidence of the water vole! These are vole 'needles in sedge stacks' along the River Darent.
Late adopter alert - but not embarrassed. The writing is so evocative of embodied sensory experience - I feel the river ripple through @amyjanebeer.bsky.social "I know how the tresses of water crowfoot ... move in sinusoidal waves" - and "leaves scatter sunlight into whispers" lush, lush, lush.
October 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Late adopter alert - but not embarrassed. The writing is so evocative of embodied sensory experience - I feel the river ripple through @amyjanebeer.bsky.social "I know how the tresses of water crowfoot ... move in sinusoidal waves" - and "leaves scatter sunlight into whispers" lush, lush, lush.
Have I missed any? Loving the women-led night journey zeitgeist - so good to know I am not alone out there 🌘🔥 ~~ :-)
September 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Have I missed any? Loving the women-led night journey zeitgeist - so good to know I am not alone out there 🌘🔥 ~~ :-)