wisdomcollectivebyrena

just a Quick Look at the veggie garden in the morning... on my 100 video experimental project journey... Garden Blessings & hugs! ;-))

Solar Eclipse Garden Tour and a Little bit of what's going on in the Garden today in the beginning of the Spring Season!

What is Mama Gaia whispering to you today??? stop n pause and listen... take a beat from your to do list and chores and all the mandatory things on your lists and have a moment with yourself! or have a set amount of time set aside daily to connect with yourself and release your commotion to the demanding outside world! Hope this has sparked some musings in your own mind about where you are in your life just now what are your intentions moving forward and to acknowledge it An as you give yourself Grace... Self Love... Sending much Love and Garden/Nature Hugs of Vibrant Joy!!!!

In the end this project took had a life of it's own!! The thick flat Stone-Beige Paint looks like statuary and the gold on the inside/back... peaking round the edges to the outside/front... really has the impact.. but subtle... that I was going for... as if each mask's inner light is so bright it is radiating out all around them! I'll be sending these back to their humans now... to be reunited and enjoyed by the family! Thanks for coming along on this Creation Completion Journey with me! I hope to be doing more projects here with you on my closing-the-loops list! Love & Warm Garden Hugs!

Hi there! Welcome to my Garden! Today I'm finishing up creating a Boquet of Plant that are blooming just now at Swampy Acres! A feast for the senses to be grateful for.... Reminding me of what I'm so grateful for in my life this week! I'm grateful for the abundance in my life of loving and supportive people and environments.... my garden, big Nature, this opportunity to share my garden and musings and view points with all of you & the active life-force pumping through me... making all this life possible! If you feel moved... I invite you to share what you are grateful for this week.... Let's spread all that Love & Goodness! 🩵💛🧡🤎🩵 Love & Garden Bouquet Hugs! 💚🌿🥀🌿🤗💚

Sometimes we just need a bit of Nature's Peace and her gentle Healing on us! Love and Nature Hugs!💚🌿🙏🌿💚

the plan for this installation was hatched from a large pile of rocks that were left over from a previous installation many years ago.... my friend and I figured if we use them to create a new planter bed we could deck it out with Succulents like we did in the front yard and save our backs from hauling them all the way out front to give them away on the curb! Remember you are more creative than you may think.... when you put your mind to it... amazing things can happen! I think it was a success! what do you think? Love & Garden Hugs :-))

Monday Musings in the Garden!!!! Eclipse story... and a visit from the Red Tail Hawks!

The Blue sky... those Clouds... the green... & the trees blooming!!!! LOVE it! My FAVORITE TIME OF THE YEAR!

So funny how our intuition works to support us... on so many levels... the Dance of Spring's Exuberant Desire to Sprout Forth & Winter's cool tempering outside & within... was ever present this morning. My intuition kept pushing me to get up even when I wanted to stay in bed... And when I finely gave in....Magic unfolded! not only did I get a swim in... that made my body feel cared for... but also... I had my Heart and Soul filled by the most lovely conversation this morning! A Woman Iv'e been swimming with for over a year asked me ..."are you a Gardner?" Which led us into speaking about growing spiciffic mushroom variety's... it was a lovely heart filled discussion about Mother Earth being there with all her wonderful Ancient Medicine Wisdom to Support & Heal our Bodies... WOW! I just had to share!! :D Love & Garden hugs! This 5min Conversation filled my Heart and Soul Today!

Simply taking a peak at a small succulent bed I have just refreshed for the Spring & coming Summer! it will last for at least 6 months... a peak at the coming new Succulent installation across the walk way. Have a great day! Love & Garden hugs!

Blooms I picked and arranged with you in mind... of what's Blooming in the garden the 1st week of Spring! :D ... just now I took the Bouquet over to my Neighbor who loves flowers! Which is fabulous as it turns out 'cause I love making Flower arrangements and sharing them... ...we have a joke... when returning my vases it's for a refill ;D So happy now to be able to share them here with you too!!!!! Some times we DO... just Need us some HAPPY! ;D

Taking you along as i show you what i've gathered to Create my Welcome Spring Ceremony!!!

Are any of you growing a Camphor tree? this one was tinney tiny when I brought it home from my Dad's Botanical Garden in So. California 10+ years ago... Kept the leaves to research how to create medicine with them! Excited about that! I kept it in a pot since last year when I decided to plant it to help create a green screen at the back of my property. The new Neighbors moved in and began to park trucks and usr the back field more heavily than any time in the past 28years.... all the previous neighbors did not really use their back field. And the Redwoods had dead branches to remove... lots of great kindling for the fire pit and fire breathing stove inside! Have a Fabulous Day my Friends! Love & Blustery Garden Hugs to you from Swampy Acres!

As I was working on my masks today...painting the rims with Gold... to represent the golden inner light of love spilling out onto the outer life ... I was thinking about when I come up against my uncertaintys... what are some ways to help myself...??? I remember that I paint! When I've lost those most important people to me in my life... I paint! I paint walls, furniture, Barns, houses, fences, whatevers... I paint! It just helps me get unstuck from my feelings of uncertainty... Of course... then I can do the deeper work of letting go ... releasing... and in time returning back to the flow of my creations with unconditional love of myself. This is my way... what's you way??? I believe It's very important that in the end, we ... each one of us discover our own way! And that having support along the way with others makes it so much more enjoyable! this is true self love and ownership of the reality we are creating! Thank for stoping by today... for a windy day in the Garden... painting! May Grace fill your World & Love fill your Heart!! ~if you love gardens and plants~ Then just for fun...check out... NSAfarm.blogspot.com

I hope you will forgive me... I'm late getting this posted and instead of doing an indepth Description I'm opting to post now!!!! Much Gratitude for your understanding! Love and Garden Hugs ;D

Greetings to you today! I found out this morning that today was National Flower Day! So.....in Celebration of this Auspicious day, for a lover of all things Flowers... we are Planting a box with Scabious, (also known as pin cushion flower) along with Yellow Pansies & a couple of budded-up Peach branches I snagged... after helping my neighbor prune her peach tree. I picked up these flowers a few days back on a sun filled day while at the big box Grocery store because they looked soooo wonderful! And in all my years of plant shopping I know that if the price is right and the plants are this lovely.... get them! because that is a winning combination! you will be able to tuck them in pots and later out into the landscape...a total win win! Funny... it was as if I were preparing for this project today! So lovely when the Universe gently nudges you with support in the perfect timing & space & direction for something you are conspiring to create!! This is one of those Serendipity events! With the power of a single flower’s creative Superpower to Bloom, be Beautiful, attracting pollinators that inspire the onset of new seed development... perpetuating new life.... is simply an Awesome act of Creation! I think we can safely say that Flowers are the givers of new life! I just think that is so cool that we can choose to frame things in ways that support us in this Journey of life. On this day of Celebration... we are encouraged to take in the life giving energy & beauty of Flowers... How are you Celebrating? would love to know! I hope the Joy & Beauty of this simple Flower arrangement that we planted together today, fills your heart, mind and soul with Love & the Universal Life Flow🥀🌸🌺🌼🌷🌻🥀

1st... Let me address my 'Camera Experiment'... I did not get my self in the Camera lens in the beginning like I wanted to... I'll need to work on that! :D thanks for being here and being willing for me to learn as I go! The topic today is Self Care & Maintenance ... and how I'm continually learning how to create self care that nurtures & nourishes me now at this time in my life.... we are continually evolving and growing and developing and so our self care may need a revisit! Perhaps pulling up some of the things that worked in the past or creating something completely new!?! Doing what comes from our Heart can help immensely! I am constantly learning... it's a practice right!?!... Today, for some wonderful reason... I was remembering how, when I was taking care of my father's NSAFarm & Botanical Gardens in So California... ...I would roll out of bed... get my coffee & camera... and go see what's happening with the plants in the morning light of the day! felt too good! so I'm implementing it again! no pruners to work ...just being curious with my camera and Mama Nature in her Glory! I shot 15,000pics while I was there for 2 years and created a memorial Blog of sorts... (nsafarm.Blogspot.com if your interested...;D) In the Blog... I was basically talking to my Dad and showing him what was going on in his Micro-climate & Plant World as I cared for these living nature beings... all the while... I was Cleaning & refreshing 2 Houses, a Garage & Artist studio & entire Acre of plants he collected and bred for 40+ years. Why was I there you may ask? Our father passed into the next world suddenly after a giant 'Rare Fruit Growers' plant sale... ... he brought over 200 potted plants to help with the Chapter's fund raiser that he belonged to! ( another Story for down the road!) So... the sad truth was... no matter how wonderful the property was...in the end... my sis and I had to sell the property... because both of us have similar properties of our own in Northern California. And yes... you're right! us two apples did not fall far from that tree of inspirational fruit! all that to say that It always made me so happy... me... my camera... and the morning light on the plants was so refreshing!!! so, I thought I'd try that again to incorporate it into my weekly Self Care Routine .... you know!?!... it's like a spa treatment for my Body, Mind, Soul & Senses! So here today I share with you some of my succulent arrangements in different states of growth and how they are doing while I chat about my thoughts on self care... What are your Self care Habits? got any? wanna start any new ones? I'd love to hear about them! Thanks for stoping by today! Have a fabulous day my Friends... Love & Hugs from a late Winter Garden of Innate Beauty...Knowledge & Wisdom :D

Change and Resistance to change can feel like Anger... or is it just Determined and Focused Energy? What do you name this Energy wanting to Explode into Growth? Being that last couple of weeks of Winter.... if you haven't already... take some time and reflect on last year and reimagine how & what you want to create in this new Growth Season Ahead! Love and Warm Nature Hugs! :D