All Change

The woods are the place to see change. From season to season and within seasons week by week. Trees do not only provide homes for an enormous number of smaller living species but unmanaged woodland also gives shelter to some of our larger mammals and is itself a constantly changing spectacle responding to light  and weather conditions in ways that managed grassland and moorland cannot. It's not only bright sunlight that reveals beauty here.

Dull mornings like today provide enough material for a William Morris design catalogue.

This reminds me of the presentation at the recent Re-visioning Parks event at which those of us who relish the experiences of natural change were told that we should be embracing "change". Now don't we know just what is happening when we are lectured on the need for change. They want us to dance to their tune or quietly accept someone's agenda. The question should always be asked - who is it that will benefit most from top-down change of that sort?