The Jubilation Of June
Captured through my camera's lens is this small glimpse of our garden and moments in nature which I find so nourishing to the spirit
June is a month that explodes into a rainbow of berries, colorful amaranth greens and medicinal herbs beginning to produce in our garden. The nourishment we are offered through our actions to cultivate perennial and/or self sowing garden beds has been a massive blessing in our lives this year when busy schedules did not allow for much time tending annuals. However, the purpose of this post is less about garden crops and more about nourishing the spirit through appreciation of poetry provided both in the wilderness and the garden in the fleeting, finite and ephemeral moments that are gifted to us when we give our attention to the art Creator and Mother Earth shares with each of us.
This June my heart was moved most by the alpine flowers of the Cascade mountains in BC, the graceful Tamarack (Larch), Balsam Fir and Pine trees that watch over the lakes up there and the budding delphiniums and unfurling leaves of infinite diversity which make both our garden and the high alpine, sanctuaries that rejuvenate my spirit and remind me why I chose to come and live another life on this beautiful Earth (despite the horrors humans inflict on each other and our fellow non-human beings.)
I will now invite you to join me to view some moments I captured through my lens in the month of June which I found to be particularly nourishing to my heart, mind and spirit.
I do not know what these purple/blue flowers are called, but I love them dearly. The picture below includes by very favorite shade of blue.
While hiking through the gorgeous alpine flower fields, larch filled lake shores and balsam fir covered mountain sides of the Cathedral Lakes in BC I foraged for some mountain medicine (practicing the tenets of The Honorable Harvest and spreading the seeds of each plant I harvested from) and collected this for making tea so that I and the mountain forest could become one.
For more info on the many medicinal benefits of Yarrow, check out this post:
Day Four: YARROW
A powerful flowered plant, great for colds and fevers as it boosts the body’s ability to “sweat off” an infection, perfect for toning blood circulation and regulating blood pressure, as well for stimulating digestion and healing the intestinal membranes. Make some tea out of it and watch the magic happen. She is also a blessing for pollinators and attra…
Above and below: close ups of delphiniums budding and blooming in our garden
For a little bit more about why I love the above flowers (delphiniums) so much and some more pics from our garden from past years, check out:
Below: Echinacea in our garden in the different stages of budding/blooming:
For more information on the medicinal benefits of Echinacea check out this post:
Day Twelve:. ECHINACEA
Glowing with serene radiance as if she shines some kind of bioluminescent light from within. Echinacea may be seen as a common weed by some here but I adore her and am grateful for her presence in our lives. All plants (and other beings) offer their own important and u…
Thanks for checking out my photos I hope you all have a beautiful remainder of July filled with berries, flowers, homegrown veggies, and moments that serve to nurture your spirit in nature and in the garden.
Each and everyone of us is capable of choosing (as our ancestors did) to develop an intimate and reciprocal relationship with the wild plants, trees and fungi in our local region. Taking the time to appreciate a flower, a leaf or a tree and giving our attention to that being, is the first step towards using our skills of observation to learn from our elder species.
May each of us find our footing and hope through embarking on the soft and green path described in The Prophecy Of The Seventh Fire.
The wonderous jubilant blossoms, fragrances, textures, sounds and tastes of June make me feel like anything is possible and that if we align our efforts we can overcome any challenges standing in the way of manifesting the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible… in short, the essence of June makes me feel like dancing and so in closing I will share this with you in the hopes you will dance along side me in spirit so that we may align our focus, our joy, our love and our jubilance to align our movements to make what may seem impossible become possible, probable and inevitable:
especially Love the blue delphiniums & blue butterfly! all the photos are magnificent!
Somewhere I wanted to yell, stop it! I just can't take anymore beauty! One after the other more glorious than the first. That magenta and blue against the green--I want a silk cape in those colors. And there can be no favorites among perfection but that painted tongue was gasp-worthy.