I want to share a simple moment with you today. A quiet, morning moment in our yard. It was cool this morning as I was walking in our backyard. The air was still a little wet and the sun was shining and it felt so good to be outside with my bare feet on the ground. I stopped and looked around, really looked. I realized just how much was there under my feet, up in the trees, all around and I just wanted to get my camera and take photos in this energy that was around. It is easy to forget sometimes that we are surrounded by so much life all around us. For various reasons, I have found myself in this place of forgetfulness lately and am working hard at pulling myself back to truth and to the life force that is available all around. It's palpable when you are open to it. Our place has so much medicine in it. Here are a few photos I took this morning.
As you can imagine, we use no chemicals at all in our yard and gardens so our lawn is pretty much what wants to grow and this happens to be a combination of medicinal plants and flowers and grass and wild strawberries, which the birdies just love (as do we) ... and we collect and use what we need just from what we have allowed to grow naturally, what was already here, waiting to be allowed to bloom ...
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| Wild white viola, beauty and food and medicine ... |
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| Wild strawberry flowers before the berries come in for the birdies .. and of course, dandelion ... |
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| More strawberry flowers and dandelion and the wonderful plantain in there too ... there is that pointy leafed one there but I don't know what that is yet ... must find out yes? If you know, tell me. |
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Are you tired of viola's and strawberry flower photos yet?
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| Blessed nettle ... |
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| Spruce tips almost ready for harvesting for food and medicine ... |
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| A little more ... |
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| Pear blossoms from our pear tree ... |
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| How perfect and beautiful they are ... |
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| The apple blossom buds before opening ... |
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| How marvelous ... |
So much beauty, life force, blooming ... in just a moment, right here, just look.
Thank you.
Oana
