Traveller's Joy
Nighttime on Still Waters
English - November 21, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture Places & Travel narrowboat canal inland waterways liveaboard weather natural world elements nature night Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The pace of autumn is gathering and a chill is creeping into the air tonight, but the stove is warm. In tonight’s episode we go off to encounter Traveller’s Joy, and explore the potency and importance of names.
Journal entry:
“19th November, Friday
The ash tree held its breath as the moon grazed the darkness,
Between cirrus sandbanks, in a halo of light.
A handful of stars, misplaced and constellation-less,
Breadcrumbs, no longer able to lead me home.
And now the dawn rises ochre and mauve.
The larches stand tall on the horizon.
Thank God for sunrise
And November buds. “
Episode Information
In this episode I refer to the following authors:
W. Keble Martin (1965) The Concise British Flora in Colour published by Ebury Press.
Roy Vickery (2019) Vickery’s Folk-Flora: An A-Z of the folklore and uses of British and Irish plants published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Niall Mac Coitir (2015) Ireland's Wild Plants: Myths, legends and folklore published by Collins Press.
Richard Folkard (1884) Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyric: Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions and folk-lore of the plant kingdom published by Sampson Low (multiple re-publishers).
For more general information and photographs of Traveller’s Joy/Old Man’s Beard, some good sites are:
Woodlands.co.uk: Traveller’s Joy
Wildflower Finder: Traveller’s Joy
General Details
In the intro and the outro, Saint-Sae
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