BEES
wildones
honeybees
woodbees
Hummingbirds
all arrived today just as the first Apricot blossoms unfurled.
Such hard workers these
What a wonderful embrace

Now, as the earth begins to warm, an odd music tumbles from the forest.
Listen…along the banks of ponds and creeks, under wet leafmold, you can hear them; the frog chorus:
“Six weeks, six weeks,” they sing.
In six weeks the Salmon will run back to the Pacific.
So says the Salish story, and so it is year […]

There is something about the light in February that slides into my heart and unlocks an inner flow. I wonder if this is how my Ash feels, her little catkins are forming, soft chartreuse and deep rose. As they fill out against the sky I marvel at the communication between trees and earth and sky. […]

Sunrise
rain & wind
and magic

Moon

Saturn and Regulus

&
All of Us
reflected on your face

Goodnight
Grandmother Moon

February’s Children bringing snow

Venus shining in my window awakens me early these mornings. Jupiter is nearby. It is breathtaking to be awake at the end of night, hours before dawn. Venus and Jupiter, the feminine and expansive benefics are in the sign of Capricorn. I make no claims to asto-wisdom though for many years I have been […]