JourneySeeds

A Yearning

*Sailing away from summer.
*Opening to Thresholds
*Golden leaves glow on the trees
*Beauty
*Deep waters hold many secrets


a birthday wish


kissed by the harvest moon

October

October!  We love October around here.  It's her birthday month, pumpkins are out in their full glory, the sun is till shimmering and warm and the leaves on the trees are just ablaze with color this year.  We joined a CSA farm this year and each week we picked up bountiful bunches of produce.  It was a weekly jaunt of relaxing ride, anticipation and beauty.  A perfect autumn day here...and this woman is doing a bit of nostalgia'ing.  She's in her beatup carharts after a full day of outdoor work and a mile wide grin pulling pumpkins in the wagon.  I can still see the glimpse of long ago in that child playing.  

Fleece & Mandalas

Romney Fleece washed

Three bags full.  All for me!  I made these handmade cotton bags from leftover fabric.  Hemp finishes off the ties quite nicely. 



Fleece in the snow.


 Mandala created for a class that I am participating in.

There is alot going on. I have been busy with many things.  One of the things I'm involved in with now is an ongoing Mandala class.  I am loving creating mandalas!  The one above was done after a meditation focusing on the Center. 


seed mandala


Nature Mandala. The story of this tree is a bit sad.  Rand was working at a friends house over the last summer.  The town was trying to make  trees to take down due to power line issues, related to the hurricane that happened a year ago in our area.  So, Rand and our friend kept moving the line that was marking these trees for their demise.  It was put off for months.  The town didn't realize what was happening.  Until one day they did.  The tree came home to us.  This beautiful piece is part of the  magnificence of the cedar. 

Cardinal

Cardinal has been visiting as they always do throughout the year.  With the stark background of the white snows that have been piled high here, whenever they land, it is always breathtaking.  Shy cardinal with her/his showy feathers just did not want to be photographed this week. It took me days to catch them on camera, despite the fact that there are three pairs of them, at least, living here.

This was posted over the woodstove mantle during our People & Permaculture course for the duration.  I have always loved this quote. It was a guiding principle in our learning activist life. My imagination is swirling, humming, turning over, revisiting, holding it all....

Top Bar Beehive

Rand made this topbar beehive for me for Christmas.  It's made with upcycled wood. He followed a design and added his own modifications to it. It is sitting upon a chair and awaiting its own stand.



Sideview


Spacers

Spacer removed, inside view

Roof/top removed

We are also taking a natural beetending class over here with the Barefoot Beekeeper.  There is lots to learn.  We thought that since we started making mead that we should also give back to the bees by helping them grow healthier and more vibrant colonies. This is a bit of our effot towards that. 

Word of the Year

It's a new year Folks! Here's a picture of part of that year for me.  Folk Soul Wyld is stirring up some foot stomping Folk for you and for me.  Come along for a new journey that is soon to be happening over here.  Get Wyld with your Folk Soul! Happy New Year Loves!

A trip to England

It's been so long since I have been here with you. We went on a trip over the ocean...and now we are back again.  A dream is taking hold....

Song on the Winds...

This one is turning 25 this weekend. She is on her way again.  This time she's  off to a remote wilderness in Vermont to canoe in her birthday.  She's happiest out in the wilds. They will land at dark on the shore and canoe in...swooping in like owls in the night.  Maybe there'll be a banjo song on the winds.

I love this girl with all my heart and soul. She is my hearts delight.  A good friend and a beautiful daughter. She is the age that I was when I was pregnant with her.  That long ago girl filled with the anticipation of mothering.  She came in like a storm and has seized her entire life that way.  The necklace she is wearing is a woman surrounded by a wolf. She got to see the wolves this year in Yellowstone. To hear her tell of it...is like a whisper only meant for the stars. 

I want to tell you all about her today.  You know, that mama desire that always fills up when your kidlings are gone?  Instead...I'll just say to you...she is one of my wisest teachers this girl of mine. May your canoe into the dark be filled with the breath of the night...and the heart of your future.  I love you, dear daughter...

 

Poor Old Shine & Brown Bird

Poor Old Shine.  We went to The Mansfield on The Green Festival.  If you must know, we went because of the music.




Brown Bird was there as well.  They are a duo from RI. We saw them at Newport Folk Festival earlier in the summer.  Fine music.














A small puppet brigade from Uconns puppet program as well as community members.