I'm so late for #SixOnSaturday (last week's 😆 ) that it actually lands just about on the right day again...lol
Last week, around the #Solstice was much colder than now, but beautiful with that #MidWinter #light and a touch of fresh #snow So, I'll wish a #HappyNewYear to all (really just another slightly mis-placed solstice celebration anyway!) #SniegaMate #SnowMother #Saule #Sun #pagan #animist #Alberta @nature #GetOutside #SolaceInNature
#SolaceINnature #getoutside #alberta #animist #pagan #sun #saule #snowmother #sniegamate #happynewyear #snow #light #midwinter #solstice #sixonsaturday
Festivities aside, it's a beautiful time of year here--wonderful #light, #contrasts #textures and a rich if restricted palette!
Here are a couple of recent shots of #SolsticeTrees (#ChristmasTrees if you like 😉 ) decorated by #Saule / #Sun and #SnowMother and #WindMother #pagan #Latvian #animist #Alberta #Canada #winter #GetOutside #SolaceInNature
#SolaceINnature #getoutside #winter #canada #alberta #animist #latvian #pagan #windmother #snowmother #sun #saule #christmastrees #solsticetrees #textures #contrasts #light
At Winter #Solstice, we celebrate the beginning of the return of #Saule / #Sun but should take some time to reflect on and appreciate the darkness of this season of long nights. #Darkenss is often considered synonymous with negativity,/evil, but it shouldn't be so- darkness = #rest, the spark of #Life, #gestation happens in darkness, #blood and #sap flow in darkness. Much #Germination and all the myriad processes of #soil life take place in darkness. #pagan #animist #Latvian
#latvian #animist #pagan #soil #germination #SAP #blood #gestation #life #rest #darkenss #sun #saule #solstice
last week's #SixOnSaturday #WinterSolstice is rapidly approaching- the Great Grandmother of all other mid-winter #celebrations! #Saule/Sun makes us cherish her light all the more for its scarcity, as she summer dozes on the other side of the world! Our coloured #holiday #lights speak of sunset colouring #snow shafts of sunlight setting crystals aglow and warm protective flames that keep the darkness at bay. #pagan #animist #Latvian #birds #nature
#nature #birds #latvian #animist #pagan #snow #lights #holiday #saule #celebrations #wintersolstice #sixonsaturday
last week's #SixOnSaturday #WinterSolstice is rapidly approaching- the Great Grandmother of all other mid-winter #celebrations! #Saule/Sun makes us cherish her light all the more for its scarcity, as she summer dozes on the other side of the world! Our coloured #holiday #lights speak of sunset colouring #snow shafts of sunlight setting crystals aglow and warm protective flames that keep the darkness at bay. #pagan #animist #Latvian #birds #nature
#nature #birds #latvian #animist #pagan #snow #lights #holiday #saule #celebrations #wintersolstice #sixonsaturday
@plants #SixOnSaturday for last week. As #Solstice draws nearer, everything becomes about #light Someone does lots of #decorating in the house (they call them #Christmas decorations, Solstice to me!) , low-budget version using stuff we already have, some cheap additons etc.. meanwhile #SnowMother and #Saule play with light and shadow outdoors- amd I may have added a little extra (1 photo) in editing 😉 #gardening #pagan #Latvian #animist
#animist #latvian #pagan #gardening #saule #snowmother #christmas #decorating #light #solstice #sixonsaturday
pics- top L/R -on the acreage +across the neighbours' I spent lots of time this week looking up- lots of sun with thin, high clouds shaped by wind like ripples in the sand or streamers blowing in the wind #Saule /Sun is getting lower in the sky, earlier! #animist #landcape
centre top Cotoneaster sp in fall colour- there are a few bird sown individuals of this non-native on the farm- mostly visible in #autumn! bot- wild Vaccinium caespitosum- great colour from orangey reds to burgundies--
#autumn #landcape #animist #saule