Stones are alive. They are pieces of our earth. They hold the heartbeat of our Mother Earth. They are ancient, living, conscious, emitting beings who draw us in and …push us away. They can hold gifts for us. They can hold healing. They can hold victories, remembrances, prayers, stillness, miracles and laughter…

I wake early on summer mornings prompted by a chorus of birds welcoming the light. On these special mornings, I grab my coffee and step outside, barefoot on the land. I quietly move up the 100-year-old concrete steps to a path leading into my garden. Into sweet morning solitude…

Milkweed appeared out of nowhere in my garden this year, blooming among the Bee Balm. Three strong, tall, beautiful stalks. A source of life and transformation for Monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and certain bees… yet poisonous to most others. Toxic yet beautiful, milkweed embodies life’s graceful dance of duality…

I turned off my alarm and rolled back over. Five or six excuses why. But the birds woke me at 4:15. They were greeting the morning. Chirping away. Insistent. Stirring me to join them and this day. ‘Come be in the sacredness.’ So, I throw on my sandals and a sweater (not enough for 48 degrees this morning) and head out to the beach…

Evening Primrose is a delicate, heart-shaped, 4-petaled, cup-like flower. Its blossoms form a cup indicating a water element signature… for holding and dissolving held emotions.

This beautiful pink flower carries heartfelt, loving energy for the disappointment, emptiness…

I feel like I am in a fairy tale when I pass by my columbine. The way the blossoms burst outward, flower within flower, floating elegantly in the air under my apple tree. Seducing the pollinators with their unusual blooms. The hummingbirds nested on a branch above cannot resist, nor can the bumblebees or the butterflies…

A Faden Quartz is an attunement stone and a stone of connection. When we sit with it in quiet and in pure intention, its energy will move through our nervous system aligning us with our life force, our God energy. The Faden will help clear our connection from above and below, from heaven and earth…

Rose Campion with its soft, silvery leaves and stems. Standing tall and confident. Solitary. Poised. Graceful in the wind or as someone brushes by. Calling out to the heart.

As I bent to touch a flower, its energy moved quietly through me, questioning the layers I hold…

The rhododendrons in the park seem 100 feet tall! Towering over us. Pulling us in and down the wooded paths. Slowing us down. Listening to us. Allowing us. Considering who we are. So excited to be with us. Encouraging us into balance. And so nonchalant.

Bee Balm, Bergamot… standing tall, standing apart, watching over my garden with its crazy, shaggy, wonderful flowers. It feels like leadership. It feels like strength. It feels like confidence. It feels like individuality.

“It restores your soul.”

Solomon’s Seal has a fondness for making deep changes in our lives, bringing us into deep, positive emotional reflection. It has been called a ‘deep emotional embrace’.

Solomon’s Seal helps us throw away stuck patterns...

In my garden here in the northwest, I planted purple lilacs. They are memories of springtime gardens in New England from my childhood, holding an innocent, carefree, nostalgic feel. And tending to my ‘inner child’.  

And now in mid-April, they are blooming! Their fragrance is filling the air…

The vast expanse of the Mount Washington valley changes with every season. Today even though spring has arrived on the calendar, the valley is looking somewhat dull and lifeless. Only the evergreens show color on the land…

I have walked into a sacred cathedral, an ideal place for worship today. Holiness is floating from the highest of branches, drifting gently throughout the forest.  I have stepped in to an unfolding prayer…

There is an elegance that touches a Birch Tree, beauty that radiates from its branches, bark, leaves, flowers and roots. Every part of it is perfect. Birch has a silence that draws us in, a spirit of mindfulness. ..

Contentment

I love walking in the woods and being with the Spirits of the plants and trees. Here is where I find my center and my balance. Here is where I find my sense of peace and belonging, where I am touching home. Here I can get lost in what is…

When the heart center (the gateway between the upper spiritual and the lower physical energy centers) is closed off the emotions no longer have a place to process. These raw, unprocessed emotions could cause us to feel weak…

Wild Sweet Violets appear when our long grey winter is ending, reminding us once again of the sacred cycle of life. New growth, a new season, fresh new, sweet life emerging. This beautiful, delicate, flirtatious flower gently opens our hearts to the promise of spring…

Wild Rose is a vine, weaving and rambling, a free spirit, growing here, there and everywhere, welcoming summer. The energy of this flower dissolves the physical, freeing the heart, letting go of all the excuses, all the blame we hold for ourselves and for others…

In my garden, under the shade of the apple tree, the pink bleeding hearts are blooming. Delicate, tender poetry for early spring. Their hearts bursting, overflowing with teardrops dripping from each blossom…