At a time when spring makes a triumphant appearance and the neighbours go hyperactive with their lawnmowers, Wolf wonders how widespread a pastime nude gardening is.

What is now a veritable tree first appeared some years ago as an inconspicuous shrub in the hedge. I am a very liberal gardener and what appears out of its own accord can stay. My attempts at identifying the tree have so far failed.

During the nights of a mysterious full moon, when the wolves are howling in your mind and your skin tingles, we all become willing victims to the creatures of the night.

As the light was fading the other afternoon I rushed out to photograph the moon and was greeted by a large, fast moving flock of small birds. There were considerably more than twenty of them and they were flying in formation.

Get ready for spring and summer with the fashion colour trends for the spring/summer 2012 season from some of the most authoritative industry sources.

The latest instalment from the life of a photographer. When winter and spring came in one day, stripping off in the snow and in public was mysteriously inevitable and intensely liberating. If you are too easily shocked, look away now.

I love occasions that mark the course of a year and enable me to re-connect with nature. These waymarks in the cycle of a year give life a different and perhaps more relevant rhythm. The beautiful sounding Candlemas is a Christian festival that is celebrated on 2 February but its origins go back to the much older Feast of Lights, a pre-spring celebration to prepare for new life.

Spring really is upon us now. The garden is colourful and lush and teeming with life.

It struck me when I put down the first cup of coffee the other morning that something had changed fundamentally.

Bark, beautiful to touch, on tree cuttings fashioned into a log pile in my garden – A photograph for the day.