As we head towards new year, he's something I wrote last year on disregarding new year and embracing winter work. #Winter #SeasonalRhythms #academia #NewYear

https://www.kfenbyhulse.com/post/seasonal-scholarship-disregarding-new-year-and-embracing-winter-work

image in main post- this is a re-worked collage from last year, with #garden #flowers from top: Peonies, Sedum (Phedimus), Geranium, Sempervivum, Gypsophila, Allium
Nothing like the white views outside here now, this might be more familiar to friends in the #SouthernHemisphere- #HappyMidSummer to you!
#pagan #animist #SeasonalRhythms

Oh boy, my working week (weekend) is about to begin, and I'm just wrapping up last week's summaries..lol #SevenOnSunday for Dec 11!
We continue with variable weather- some moderate snow, days a little above average, but no real melting days, some days below average, but no extreme cold-- though looks like that may be coming this week, so I've been trying to get a bit farther ahead of wood cutting! #CountryLiving #holidays #SeasonalRhythms #Alberta #nature

@plants @nature
#RockGardening tends to focus on the #plants #gardening-- not without reason, *but* the #rocks are crucial to the design and microclimate creation aspects.. Besides that, I just like seeing the rocks, and at times they may be dominant visual features! #winter #Frostodon (I know, this is #snow, but thought some of you might appreciate the view!) #Alberta #Canada #SeasonalBeauty #SeasonalRhythms

Like a half-interested lover,
Saule teases me.

Late on a winter day all ice blue and bone white
she excites me with flame gold and carnal red
glimpsed through snow-laden branches,
and spilling across the snow.

But the flirtation is casual, distracted,
her mind and heart are elsewhere:
daily she strays further to the south.

Careless caresses in passing hold no warmth,
in the end, she leaves me cold.

#poetry #Writer #Latvian #pagan #animist #SeasonalRhythms #sunset

Ironic that just as #summer is really beginning, the days will now begin to get shorter! Here's my blog post from last year https://cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/2021/08/summer-solstice-2021-beginning-of-end.html
and some photos from this year-#garden and #wildflowers (the line can be blurry here, as many native plants grow in my gardens, some planted there, others that found their own way in) @plants @nature #florespondence #solstice #pagan #animist #poetry #seasonalrhythms

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Spring rolls onward, gaining steam,
gaining green.

First shy flowers multiply
spreading from garden and wetland
to lawn and woodland
ever more bigger brighter bolder.

Trees continue with catkins
some heading rapidly to seed
leaves burst overnight and
cones shower the world in golden pollen.

#spring #pagan #animist #latvian #SeasonalRhythms #GoddessCulture #may #trees #Alberta #Canada #poetry #poem