Author: Katherine
Keep the bugs away!
Some herbal bug sprays waiting to repel bugs! Bugs can make summer challenging. Here are some essential oil suggestions to help keep them at bay. I also have some suggestion to help with bug bites and stings. Keeping bugs away! Probably everyone’s heard of citronella as a bug repellent. It is…
Bug tent
Here is a picture I took from my brand new bug tent! Isn’t it lovely? http://www.rei.bug tent I have been yearning to sleep outside and look at the stars for years. When I’d sleep out in a tent there would be a tent flap in the way of my view of the…
Using mindfulness to slow down summer!
Some pears in my yard growing nicely in this glorious summer weather. I had two really fun classes in the last couple weeks. Thank you ladies at Spirit of Women workshop and Tools for Stress Relief class; it was really fun to hang out with all of you! One…
Leonardo’s drawings
Roses in Bloom!
Here is a Rosa Rugosa in my front yard that smells so delicious – I love to leave the windows open so I can smell it throughout the day. Aaaah roses! Their fragrance is magnificent. It is called upon in poetry, mythology and human history as a symbol of love…
Sleeping potions
Sleep is vitally important, we all know that, but sometimes missing a night of sleep reminds us just how important! For a variety of reasons I got very little sleep one night this week (a wakeful child, a dang mosquito, loud rain and wind). Usually I am a great sleeper,…
Pink Lady Slippers
Hello there. I hope you are having a good week. I found these glorious Pink Lady Slippers blooming in a nearby pine forest and was thrilled. They are endangered because they are so slow-growing and need a certain fungus in the soil to germinate. It was fun to find such…
Forget-Me-Not
Here is a picture of a tiny Forget-Me-Not; one of my favorite spring flowers. In looking it up this morning I learned that it is fragrant in nighttime and evening but has no scent in the daytime. I had no idea! It’s been one of my favorite flowers for years,…
Cottonwood Seeds
This is the time of year when the Cottonwood seeds are drifting through the spring air. I tried to grab a photo above of the fuzzy seeds floating in the blue sky at the Green River Swimming Area yesterday. Part of why I love them is they move slowly, twirl…