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I'm back from 3 peaceful days at a friend's permaculture farm on the mountain. burrows, a horse, dog, cats, a mama goat and 2 one-week old kids, chickens, and an explosion of all kinds of vegetation, vegetables, fruit trees, nut trees. remnant cloud forest, birds, insects, waterfall, rainbows, spectacular sunsets, more stars than you can imagine, etc. etc. wonderful place. 2 eagles followed us for awhile as we hiked back down to the pueblo.
It's the dry season but it's starting off wetter than normal. the winds have stopped for a brief moment but will probably return any moment!
It's the dry season but it's starting off wetter than normal. the winds have stopped for a brief moment but will probably return any moment!
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Re: July Who's Afoot in Your Bioregion?
Wed, July 1, 2009 - 3:29 PMsounds like a good time on the permy! -
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Wed, July 1, 2009 - 5:48 PMViva la Permacultura!
Cynthia there's just something comforting when you start the monthly thread, I think this was your baby to begin with, no? Well, anyways, I love our monthly "who's afoot" tradition.....it's good stuff!
Life down here has been blah recently. Been locked in my apartment since the solstice (for the most part) except for one beautiful hike in the local sclerophyll forest on a rainy day recently. The forests around here really come into their own when it rains, every little color shines, the moss radiates, the trees all squiggle and squirm in between each other....pretty cool. And an Aguilucho graced me with some song and beauty, checking out the nooks of the canyon in between the raindrops.
So, looking for rebirth energy....it's been slow comin this year, lol!
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Thu, July 2, 2009 - 6:06 AMMore of the same here this month....rain rain and more rain! Seems we can't get 2 sunny days together here over the past month.
Looking for rebirth energy too...but also slow in coming! The garden is poor this year the spinach has bolted and everything else is so soaked with rain that things are not growing well. Guess we'll be thankful for what we can get this year.
Although the greens of the trees and forest are stunning from all the rain, and thankful for the gift of water, which we all need....
Waiting for warm!
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Thu, July 2, 2009 - 7:22 AM'Cynthia there's just something comforting when you start the monthly thread, I think this was your baby to begin with, no? Well, anyways, I love our monthly "who's afoot" tradition.....it's good stuff!'
thanks Jav. actually, who's afoot was originally Pauline's idea. And thanks for that description of your hike. I can imagine how beautiful those trees are in the rain. Send the great standing ones a wave from their ecua-cousins!!
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Thu, July 2, 2009 - 7:37 AM'sounds like a good time on the permy!'
yeah, it really was a beautiful time. It's also so wonderful to see the progress they have made over the last year and half. It's also wonderful because the farm is located on the buffer zone of podocarpus national park-- now a world heritage site due to it's extraordinary bio-diversity. It's being ravaged on the fringes all the way around.
I was going to post some photos but i seem to have left the camera up there! Here are two links though:
freespace.cc/mj/sacredsuenos
There are photos of the farm that must have been taken 3 years or so ago by the look of the vegetation. If you're a permie practitioner or just interested these photos are very good. When I get the camera back I'll post a few photos of those areas now for anyone who wants to see them.
Here's the new website: www.sacredsuenos.com/ Yve's mission statement is very good -
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Thu, July 2, 2009 - 11:14 AMo those photos were BEAUTIFUL!!!
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Wed, July 1, 2009 - 9:55 PMhow awesome is that?! nice!! not much up here for me, really. still attending the day in day out activities, while trying to maintain a social, yet relaxing lifestyle. the weather here has been mild, which (from me) is much appreciated! today was probably the hottest so far for the season, yet the breeze maintained a coolness. everyone seems to be sprouting allergy attacks besides me. HAHA!! :D
this next weekend i'm attending a bachelor party where all of us will be white water rafting on the Wenatchee River! then my friend's wedding the next weekend. other than that, i plan on keeping it as low key as possible. like one big, lazy summer day! :) -
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Wed, July 1, 2009 - 10:09 PMthe Wenatchee River sweet!
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Thu, July 2, 2009 - 10:35 AMi know! i can't wait!! never been...! -
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Wed, July 8, 2009 - 1:05 PMst.john's wort is blooming
ravens are in the fir trees outside the bedroom window
the garden gives lettuce, basil, baby beets and lotsa potherbs
thunderstorms have been going off
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Wed, July 8, 2009 - 10:17 PMthe grass is drying up... but the rain has come...
we went to the rainshadow, the est side of rainer last weekend and built a cob oven. it turned out very nice. there are pics on the post paganism tribe. an alter for the oven goddess was created offerings made...
a simple prayer was said before sageing and building the first fire inside her...
"thank you earth mother for come up through us to create such a beautiful being that will nurture others as you do us." -
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Thu, July 9, 2009 - 5:52 PMAble to get away into the mountains for a few days. Relaxing and exhilarating all at the same time. The coolness that settles over the Berkshires at night is so peaceful and clear. We had a beautiful wild flower meadow right outside our window, birds, bees, butterflies, and of course mosquitoes galore...hungry buggers they were! Caught a most beautiful sunset (posted) but ignore the date...Dawn's camera wasnt set on the right date! Nice to get away and out of the hustle of Greenfield for a few days to the solitude of the Berkshires!
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Sat, July 11, 2009 - 3:55 PMthis morning was one of those rare sparkling ones where every ridge is visible, the sky is the clearest blue and the moon was setting at about 8:30 am (EST). A gift after a few moist and sometimes dreary days since the moon changed to full. It's finally drying out here. after more than a year the mountains are starting to turn brown. The rivers are running high since there is much moisture in the cloud forests several hundred meters higher up which serve as the watershed for this area.
the hummingbirds have come back to the garden! they are always reminding me to lighten up, get a better sense of humor and quit taking myself too seriously. i am digging a new planting bed for vegetables in response. time spent with a shovel in my hands is always good therapy. -
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Sat, July 11, 2009 - 4:12 PM'i am digging a new planting bed for vegetables in response. time spent with a shovel in my hands is always good therapy''
i also find that using a shovel for gardening (or finding intresting things in the soil) very theraputic. very much like a counselor, in a way.
i love hummingbirds, and best of all, i love the small piping voice they have. course, one needs be real close to hear it. :)
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Fri, July 17, 2009 - 11:36 AMWell, I was gone a week and my old roommate managed to kill all my medicinal herbs, humpf . . . all I asked her to do was warer my plants and clean the refrigerator, but apparently that was too much to ask . . . So I am replanting today, at my new place in Redondo Beach, with my new Love. We also just creating a solarium to grown during the winter . . .
Condors have been on my radar of late . . . Saw a herd or 30+ Elk in the San Joaquin Valley, right next to I-5 (my main totem) . . . got skunked the other night, neither one of us had a chance to get out of the way of each other . . . interesting dreams about crystals and plants. Working specifically with Lemurian crystals, record keepers, decoding, beleive I have a formula, or else it was just too many drugs in the 80's . . . Datura survived medicinal herb genocide, and is proliferate . . . just working with the energy, but it is powerful medicine (yes, yes I am being careful, no ingestion . . . or smoking . .. yet)
Kisses all . . .
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Mon, July 20, 2009 - 9:41 PMA funny interchange over the phone while out filming a Jerusalem Cricket. I edited the darn thing and when I save it, it comes out thumbnail size. I wonder what I am not doing right.
www.youtube.com/watch
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Mon, July 20, 2009 - 11:35 PMthats cool. and reminds me i need to ask them for moultings. very good for skin rashes or disease. -
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Sat, July 25, 2009 - 7:48 AMthat is cool!
i have finally finished one raised planter bed in the back yard. now it's time to plant it.
the weather here has been dry, but the wind has died down for a few days. The soil is drying out fast in places causing a few minor slips in zones where we had major landslides last February and March. The huilcos are starting to seed (a bit earlier than last year) and we're having some lovely sunsets and skies filled graceful evening cloud people. -
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Sun, July 26, 2009 - 12:33 PMDiscovered by chance....a neighbour i have not known before. A water vole. Looks rather like a guinea pig but with a rats tail,and able to stand on it's hind legs and also swim. Once common here but now a priority species for conservationists. I saw him by chance at the roadside while driving past, and looking on the map found a little brook running near the site. later went back to see if i could see any signs of residence but didn't find anything. Will look again some time.
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Sun, July 26, 2009 - 4:56 PMthat's great Pauline. sounds like a good tracking assignment for you and your son! -
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Sun, July 26, 2009 - 5:49 PMHi Pauline! Good to see your icon and your words. i been missing seeing you and dany talking with us. Vole person is very cute. bet he likes plant roots lots. (meaning, i would not plant my medicinal bellflower there, :) It is extremly wonderful to here of you spending so much time, love and effort of relating with your son to the natural world. I admire you for that. He will remember you in many deep and wonderful ways when he is your age. -
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Mon, July 27, 2009 - 3:12 PMAhh.....thanks Incense....that 's sweet of you. I miss Dany here too.....and speaking with all of you here. it's good to connect again......
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Mon, July 27, 2009 - 3:05 PM"sounds like a good tracking assignment for you and your son"
....yes it will be Cynthia. Thats also why i liked that particular link........ because it shows it's habbitat and signs to look for.
Loved your photos of the permaculture farm. Especially the 'loo with THE view'! Stupendous!
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Mon, July 27, 2009 - 4:48 PMIt has been a wet and cool summer. The wet and cool are letting up now.
we're having hot days and good nights.
The ant queens have mated, and are settling in where ever they choose.
I have yet to go fishing. ):
