Spring Renewal

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With the coming changes in the seasonal climate and the clocks I began my annual ritual of “Deep Sweep”. I take a few days away from the day job and cut back on my social media a little and concentrate on cleaning away things that built up a little over the winter. The whole process will take a couple of weekends and generally ends with yard work and light landscaping tasks. The idea is more than just moving the sofa and washing down the trim but it’s also symbolic way of resetting my mind. Over the past few days the clock has been reset, the natural changes in the light and the coming change in the calendar on March 20th in combination with “resetting” my living space all seem to be a sign that it’s time to reset my mind as well. So today I took a break from chores and wandered around the yard a bit. It gave me a chance to both plan out the yard work and notice the changes in my local nature. The little white flowers that we call harbinger of Spring have really taken off and exploded everywhere. I could almost set a clock by their reliability. It’s always the second week of March when they arrive in numbers. And they always last until about the first week of April when everything else begins to bloom. It’s a good time indeed to renew myself as well.

Do you have a Spring routine for resetting your mind and spirit? Let me know in the comments.

Good night friends and be blessed throughout your days.

Announcement 2.0

For those who have been following me on Facebook and know of the struggle content providers have to get circulation from big tech I’ve been recommending for people to adopt MeWe as a social media platform. One of the problems I’ve run into on MeWe is that people don’t know how to navigate the platform. So to help with that I’ve created a permanent page on my website as a basic Basic Beginner’s Guide To MeWe I’ve tried to anticipate all basic questions there and You can bookmark the page to have as a reference and if you have any questions or suggestions don’t hesitate to contact me. I do still have a day job and I help admin several pages on both platforms so replies might be a little slow but I will answer you.

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The Morning Smile

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The saturated earth gives slightly as I tread out to my thinking spot. The warm day and time of year makes me a little more cautious about where I step just in case one of our pit vipers has awakened from hibernation early. I was on my way to to practice some long exposure techniques on the little drainage ditch that runs off of my mountain and into Little Elk Creek. And there it was. The smile from nature that I’ve been longing for since Christmas. The Harbinger Of Spring. To give you an idea of how small the flowers are the black speck is a flea beetle and about 1/10 of an inch long. The plant is also known as Pepper and Salt and the scientific name is Erigenia Bulbosa but I am partial to Harbinger Of Spring. According to Wikipedia it is the first wildflower to bloom in Spring but I’m a little dubious about the accuracy since my fly honeysuckle started opening a few days ago. Nevertheless, it is a most welcomed sight. It means that I’ll soon be seeing the Carolina Spring Beauty, Fiddleheads ( young fern fronds ) and the Trillium.

One thing that I agree with Wikipedia on is the importance of these tiny flowers for solitary bees like the mason bees that will emerge from their holes into a harsh world. Before 1622 solitary bees were the main pollenators in North America. It stands to reason that their lifestyle would be closely tied to early blooming plants like Harbinger Of Spring. I have looked around the area where I found this one and it seems to be the very first one to pop up on my place. It also wasn’t there yesterday ( or at least it wasn’t in bloom) because I was in the same spot and actually looking for any changes to forest floor. But from this day forward I expect to see life explode onto the scene.

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