June 20 Summer solstice: revel of senses, revel of nature, revel of the physical. A day to go out into the sun, smell the air, see the flowers and trees, awake, vigorous, alive. Feast on strawberries and wine, walk barefoot on the earth, be roots, be tall as a tree. Today is a day for…

 June 16 Fox-and-cubs, a most charming name for this flower, which is also called orange hawksbeard, the devil’s paintbrush. orange hawk bit and mysteriously, Grim-the-collier (a collier being a coal miner or charcoal maker). How is it already June 16? The days are long and full, though I spend many minutes a day simply watching…

 June 14 Drizzly rain today most of the day, we have had only 4 or 5 mm.; it’s cooler and very windy, blowing from the south-east, unusual.  I have a bird app, called BirdNET, which records and analyses bird song for identification. It kept telling me that the whistling I was hearing was a scarlet…

 June 10 Solar Eclipse: Rahu, who was beheaded for drinking the nectar of the gods, tried to get revenge by consuming the sun, but without a body, the sun came out the other side!  We purchased this painting in Bali, Indonesia, in 1983. The references I find on-line blur the myth we learned in Indonesia…

June 8  “Where have you BEEN?!”, asked 12 year old Rain the moment I came in the door. Even now, my oldest and my grandchildren are at the door as I come in, with questions and calls for attention. I should consider it a compliment! I am needed and loved. Snake spit on the plants….