I've been incubating this summer, in a mostly solitary manner. But today, today... Autumn arrives this afternoon on the patch of earth...

  Here in my realm of our shared reality, the season of spring arrives later today with the vernal equinox. My long-time tradition for this ...

February arrives, and I find myself in the days of Imbolc, the Indo-European name for this sacred liminal space between winter solstice and ...

  This past full  Lughnasadh  moon, the first of two full moons this August, has expressed a pronounced yet gentle verve to me. One of my ha...

  August kicks off - in my realm - with sunshine, good air quality, unusual tempered temperatures, and a good dose of righteous indignation....

Every day there is something in life to harvest.  Every day there is something in life to plant.  Every day there is something in life to re...

October enters my world with a signature chill 'n' damp... a day to stay indoors, out of the gardens, to tend to that which has been...

I give thanks to this harve st, to the spirit of these plants, to the spirit of their Medicine… tansy, summer savory, and peppermint, and to...

  Or, if you prefer, happy April fools' day.  That, and a new moon too. This April arrives with me emptying, 'n' releasing, as i...

... and with it, the new year. While the pace of the season relaxes, there's still plenty in the gardens to enjoy, harvest, preserve, an...

  I've been experiencing enormous comfort from these insistent rains, and in working in the officina (apothecary, if you prefer) these p...

May Day arrives, cool, gusty, sunny, and with the promise of warming spring days, and still-expanding daylight. May Day arrives marking the ...

I don't care what linear, logical, conventional measures of time say, February is the longest month of the calendar year.  In the best o...

I'm taking December serious this year... with some earnest down-time, some ruminative stillness, quiet, and BEing. Because I can. And th...

Today is for rain. As was yesterday. And tomorrow snow is forecasted.  Today I'll harvest in the rain. Yesterday I wallowed in October...

The sketch was made last week, and embellished with watercolor this morning. My practice of heART journaling is always good Medicine....

Even as aspects of The Garden are past 'n' waning, there's still plenty to tend 'n' harvest well into autumn. And autu...

The landscape on our little acre still looks more winter than spring. Nonetheless, I've been looking close, and see signs of onion gra...

It's really winter now. And with it - for me - comes the most earnest of the quiet time, still time, and inner time that I exp...

Every day I do my best to honor, serve, nurture, protect and defend my blessed Nona Gaia. Peace.