Amy Clarkson

I love the depiction of skilful multi-tasking in this tapestry (1470-80, made in Switzerland) @burrellcollect. It reminds me of women crofters in Applecross!

Squalls rushing their patterns over Lochan an t- Sagairt (Lochs of the Priest) in Applecross earlier today. The first time I’ve walked the footpath since completing my practice-based PhD on this landscape.. Meeting it anew. Letting go.

Thank you to Airigh Drishaig, and to all the communities, pathways & patchy woodlands of Applecross and Glasgow who have collaborated in these emergent stories of reciprocal restoration.

I am utterly thrilled to have passed my viva with no corrections! Thank you to the examiners @samlwalton & @RiaDunkley & chair @colinjherd for making it so enjoyable and to my incredible supervisory team @BorthwickDave @ekreeder & @JAFMacDonald

It’s been an amazing week of autumn activities for Torgarve Community Woodland @ApplecrossACC. Bountiful hazelnut collection for the tree nursery, a fun woodland activity trail and a harvest festival topped off by a glorious sunset.

Fantastic finish to #communitywoods2022 with site visit to Dun Coillich admiring natural regen & very cool Kazuba compost loo. Thanks @CommunityWoods for a great weekend bringing these all projects together. Looking forward to taking inspirations to Torgarve @ApplecrossACC

Next up was tending to these babies: sessile oak and hazel gathered from seed around Applecross and grown in the community tree nursery. The future forest at our fingertips! We’ll be holding seed collecting & storytelling events this October half term!

First activities include the community build of a timber-frame shelter, led by George and crafted from spruce felled from the site. Mortise and tenon joints in the making…

Strandline curiosity of today: a gorgeous Lesser Spotted Cat Shark, or dog fish. Hollow & dry, inhabited by beetles. Gently curved features. Rough sandpaper skin with tiny tooth-shaped bristles that gave this being its hydrodynamic powers. An honor to touch..

Spring tides have gifted these shores with strandlines of foxgloves, and spring onions! A whole bunch, washed up individually.. still fresh. Sea travelers, landed.

Thank you @BrassAye I didn’t know how much I needed to dance outside, surrounded by festive swirling teacups & smoke filled bubbles, serenaded by angelic brass ascensions. You were incredible! Glasgow’s finest assemble x

My mouth feels full of the forest. The first cep that I’ve ever found here at Airigh Drishaig and it tasted divine. From such a soggy autumn, I’m doubly delighted by the emergence of this firmly fleshed beauty… imagining the mycorrhizal webs wrapped through roots below…

Experiments with fungi spore prints #1 This wild mark-making got a little 'wilder' by the accidental inclusion of some grubs inside the birch bolete....A scratchy multi-species collaboration!

*Black Nightshade... Incredible berries

Feeling the approach of Harvest Moon and a swell of appreciation for the self-seeded community of my window box (and neighbourhood). Fat-hen, Dark Nightshade and Borage. Will be nibbling at the seeds of fat-hen. And if only 'wonderberry' wasn't also named 'poisonberry'...

The strangely beguiling beauties of the season on this Applecross shoreline...Lousewort, cuckoos galore and NorthernProducerFPF

So great to see the Becoming Woodlands co-creation @wcdtgarden. Many hands, mycellium webs and textual threads come together within this 'Garment for the Earth.' Thank you @FoEScot @mariaxrose @MushroomTable for the inspirations, and to all the participants! 🌿🍄💚