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Photographer Ed Smith is embarking on a year-long study of the River Spey. Using his canoe and kayak, he’s regularly on the water, gathering pictures and interviewing people to explore what the Spey Valley is like right now. Rachel joins Ed for a trip on his canoe. Portsoy Community Enterprise has just unveiled a new geology wall to showcase the different types of rock found in the local area. Mark catches up with the 'Stone Dyker’, Euan Thompson, and Anne McArthur, manager of the Salmon Bothy. Owen Pilgrim tells folktales and mythology that come from our relationship with nature. Owen joins Mark and Rachel to bring in the change of the season with an autumnal tea ceremony and tales of letting go. Daydreaming is the name of a new art exhibition by Katie Hammond at the Phoenix Centre in Newton Dee Village, Aberdeenshire. Mark visits the exhibition with Katie to discover how slowing down inspires a new appreciation of nature. The Nature Collective is made up of numerous artists who work with organisations to explain science and the environment through art. Rachel travels to the Botanic Garden in Dundee to chat to Suzanne Scott, Rodney Mountain and Ines-Hermione Mulford of the collective. In this week’s podcast extract, Mark is at Culloden, Inverness, with Professor Tony Pollard and Derek Alexander, head of archaeology for the National Trust for Scotland. He finds out how recent digs are shedding new light on what happened back on 16 April 1746. Mark is in Stirling to find out how a very rare moss, round-leaved bryum, was rescued from Edinburgh and translocated to ensure its survival. Becca Drew Galloway, Scottish native plant conservation horticulturist, explains how the move is helping to revive this critically endangered species.