365 SEASONS

The seasons are a sliding scale, every day its own season.

And yet, there's no denying that the year is broken into four larger chunks of time when the natural world shifts from the warmest high to the coldest low. Seasons are a useful guide for growers and farmers to know what, in general, they should be doing at that point in time. I'm sure you'll find, as I do, that this becomes intuition engrained deeper into your mind with each passing year. 

We don't get to see that many of each season. Eighty or ninety autumns if we're lucky, more if we're luckier. This is one of the reasons I wanted to return to the countryside by my fortieth year. I'm on the other side of the hill and there may be fewer of each season left to experience in a more natural setting than I've already lived through. 

I'm not a religious person, science and fact are what I believe. A field mouse is a field mouse, simple and plain to see, made of water, minerals and nutrients. I stop to look at it, with its bright eyes…