Entries Tagged as ‘Planting’

March 20, 2009

Equinox

Today is the Vernal Equinox, or Ostara. In our house, Easter starts here. Halfway to the solstice, we’re loving the longer days and shorter nights, and there have been some glorious sunny spring days recently. I’ve managed to peg my washing out:

We’ve got spring flowers by the front door:

And of course, we’ve been planting [...]

February 3, 2009

“People are generally relieved if Imbolc is a day of foul weather…

“…as it means the Cailleach is asleep and winter is almost over”, says Wikipedia
Was yesterday a day of foul weather? It depends on your perspective, I think.
From the inside of our warm kitchen, it just looked beautiful:

But if you were trying to get home on the blocked up bypass last night, it probably [...]