Gathering Days: A collection of things foraged and found

By Ellie Evelyn Orrell

A memoir that weaves together contemplations of land, self, and place as it follows the changing Welsh seasons.

"I follow the patterns in ever-widening circles. Gathering dust in the heat of summer. Rainwater in all seasons. Occasional snow, glimpsed in the kernel of a persimmon seed. Bramble, acorn, hawthorn, and cherry. Tracing the lines of a landscape and the patterns of a year. Towards a greater appreciation of what was there all along."

Along the seasons of a year, Gathering Days recalls the ways in which the act of collecting might offer a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty. Walks across the fields and coasts of Wales bring encounters with stories from elsewhere--a quiet garden in Kyoto or a lamplit street in Seville.

Gathering Days celebrates the small yet miraculous moments of everyday life, while asking the question of how we might steady ourselves against a landscape.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837600198
• ISBN13: 9781837600199
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Calon
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 0.9" x 8.1"