Summer, Beautiful Summer

 

I drove to the mountains hoping to visit butterflies. When I got to the top of the pass there they were, a 1,000 of them fluttering about is not an exaggeration. 

 

They were around puddles sipping water absorbing minerals. I wish I had gotten a photo of the multitudes, yet as I approached they took to the air and fluttered around me. So glimpses is what I have to share.

 

The tiny pond snails are laying their eggs on leaves along the water.

 

lovely Self Heal is blooming, dotting the woods and meadows with their lovely presence. I am also using it in my tea and made a body oil with it. 

 

 

late spring and early summer we have had rains from time to time. Moss plumps up and grows at these times revealing their artful beauty. 

 

Enjoy each day, seasons come and go swiftly and each one holds its own special gifts.  

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lovely summer to you 

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Late Spring into The Beginning of Summer

It has been a long since posting here. 

I post on Instagram regularly, in case you are interested. 

The male cones of the Lodgepole pines were heavy laden with pollen.

We have had many big storms which brought down seemingly endless trees. 

One of my 6 trees that came down was a pine and a perfect opportunity to harvest pollen and explore super-food medicine making with it. 

I gently shook the branch so you could see how much comes off a gentle shake.

It was a time intensive experience. So lovely to be in the woods, collecting the male cones, serenaded by the birds and amazing scent of pine trees. 

wild orchids are blooming, some have come and gone,

the lovely ladyslipper:

summer light igniting a new born leaf:

a new find along the ponds shore,

I have learned they are snail eggs:

A deer ate that one along with the plant

but there are more

I hope to see the snails arrive

tiny treasures abound

This might be a newborn snail from one of the egg sacks?

It was on the end of a blade of grass

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I wish you all a lovely summer. 

I hope to post more often, time will tell. 

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