Tag Archives: nature

The Fresh Gardener – Joke.


Here´s one I thought up yesterday(My very first self-made joke!): There was a rich man, who had a beautiful wife and who loved his garden, but didn´t have all the time he would have liked to spend caring for it and therefore employed a gardener. The gardener was young and handsome and fancied the Misses, […]

Honey Bees In The Himalayas.


An Apis Laboriosa, the largest social bee in the world, gathers pollen on a rhododendron flower. A gathering bee approaches a tree in bloom. The Apis Laboriosa is the main pollinnatot for the mountain flora. She has been spotted at an altitude of 4100 meters. The Apis Laboriosa, the giant bee of the Himalayas, builds […]

May Day~Beltane~


On April 30 into May 1st we Pagan types celebrate Beltane.  Beltane is a fire festival honoring the return of the earth’s fertile phase. Beltane is most usually celebrated around the fiery fingers of a robust merry bon fire and dancing beneath a colorful maypole.  I have read that “back in the day” the fertility […]

In Awe of the Light!


I was being driven along through the African countryside early one evening, which gave me time to enjoy the view. When dusk started to tumble from her perch, my artist’s eyes became enamored with the peculiar light of the dusk, which is decidedly different on this continent, than anywhere else I have ever been. Could […]

The Brew And The Berry


Life, and my place in it, is  apparently shifting at a more obvious rate lately.  With each dawn, I “wonder” at my  interesting mirror image. I am shocked, yet, unmoved. Being alive is very exciting. There is comfort in age, in time, in wisdom. I have heard all of my life the saying “If I only knew […]

On Being A Witch


Words are capricious little sprites. When I say to another soul, “I am a witch” there are any number of impressions one might embrace depending upon your background, your present and past realities, your geographic location, and, your personal emotional response to the word “witch” based on your educational exposure and perhaps your religious teachings. […]

Becoming the Wolf


Becoming the Wolf. Click the above link to read a marvelous article(with beautiful pictures)! I “pressed” this because, first of all I am a dog lover and secondly, I have always loved to listen to wolves howling. In my opinion they are wonderful animals, the only ones by the way that will ever raise a […]