Botanical Beauty; Summer Plant Journeys

Incredibly ripe elderberries

Sultry aromatics

Tall reaching blue vervain

Moonlit tulsi gathering

Perfumery intensive

Basil gathering

Healing hyssop

Stocking seasonal favorites; Mead

Happy bees, happy bee balm

Putting up dried rose buds from the beach

Kids' Great Hollow bff reunion

Ice cream!

Jumping into rivers

(that one's a little too high for me - but the girl loved it as you can see :)

A good year for St. Johnswort flowers

and for soaking up the wild waters (it was *hot*)

and it was a good summer for some seriously beautiful creative time: 

...Victorialand perfume compact; patchouli, ylang ylang, spice.

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Now .... off to the Women's Herbal Conference! 

ahhh summer 

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Alchemy Seeks

Plants.

They make me think, create, feel. Grow.

The get me going.

both within and without

and in so many ways are my muse.

Inside all of these seemingly indoors kind of bottles,

paper designs,

and handmade wearables,

is a piece of wild.

A piece of stone, water, green, air, cloud, soil, sun, mineral, molten, fire.

Alchemy stirs elements

with emotion

with intention

and imprints upon the cells a kind of open magic.

Alchemy seeks in the corners of the commonplace, and the vastness of the feral lands. Most of all it seeks 

in-between.