Most rock is worn away mechanically. Limestone is removed chemically, taken into solution and carried off in the water, and a landscape shaped by dissolving behaves unlike anywhere else. Here…
There is a small object that lines a great many old roads and is almost never looked at: a short stone or cast-iron post at the verge, carrying a name…
There is a type of building standing in fields, farmyards and the grounds of old houses that most people pass without knowing what it was for.
It is frequently round…
Coarse material behaves completely differently from sand under waves - it drains, it rolls, it stacks and it sorts - and almost everything distinctive about a shingle beach follows from…
There is a way of looking at a pond that changes it from a fixed feature into a process with a direction.
The ordinary view treats a pond as a…
There is an assumption about mosaic that treats it as decoration applied to a finished surface — small pieces stuck onto a floor or a wall, like tiles.
That is…