Ghost Pipe
There is a tunnel of trees in the woods alongside a place where deer step out to feed on apples in late summer. A canopy of oaks and beeches with old, forsaken branches strewn along its floor leading to a steep, sudden, down slope…
Pink Peony
My Peonies were greeting me as I entered my garden this morning. Nodding hello, happy, bending downward, almost but not quite touching the earth. Heavy from the overnight rain…
Sacred White Datura
I sit in my garden as night falls. Sacred Datura has opened. It glows. It is brilliant in the moon’s light. Its essence is calling in dreams, visions and sacred rites of passage…
Beach Rose
I am in love with the Beach Rose!
I love its beauty. I love its bristly protection. I love its vulnerability. I love its survival skills…
Queen Anne’s Lace
Queen Anne’s Lace has a dreamy, delicate, soft, vulnerable quality that goes hand and hand with the sensitivity of a full moon in Pisces. Its flower head reminds me of a life of stories…
Deer Medicine
Peace on Earth
They have an aura of gentle, sweet magic. Calm. Sensitive. Eyes that draw you into their spirit. If you encounter a deer in the woods, you stand between the worlds for a moment…
Damselflies
Why did someone mow the field where the damselflies lived!? Grass, clover, wildflowers in their prime cut down and left to die. And now, an uncanny silence. And a heart-breaking way to begin my day. The damsels brought me the awe I longed for on those ‘ordinary’ days…
Rose Quartz
My first love. …and one of my forever loves.
The first time I touched rose quartz its soothing vibration circled my heart with its rosy pink color and I fell madly and deeply and forever in love. Rose quartz radiated its loving, soft, Divine energy, resting first in my heart…
Mount Saint Helens
Life after death.
I am clearly in another world as I stand here looking over the devastation in this valley. Such trauma. Yet there is an acceptance in the earth. A wisdom beyond our imagination. A dance She does that baffles me. How does She stay in character?…
Medicine Lake
Medicine Lake in California is sacred land. It is a vortex within a vortex, one of the sacred sites surrounding Mount Shasta. Pine, cedar, hemlock and fir trees lead the way up into this sanctuary, tall and handsome and protective, becoming smaller and sparser as we climb in altitude…