Tag: nature
Posted on August 28, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Yes, it’s a blatant take on GoT’s signature slogan, but the drama of winter is a way off (we hope) and I’m loving browsing Pinterest and Tumblr and seeing how excited folks are getting about fall, Halloween and Samhain. The primary colour is orange,… Continue Reading “Autumn is coming…”
Category: childhood, gardening, Nature, parenting, seasons, UncategorizedTags: autumn, blackberries, blogs, Brambles, childhood, fall, food, foraging, fruit, fungi, halloween, monday, monday blogs, monday Motivation, mondayblogs, nature, November, orange, outdoors, pagan, parenting, samhain, summer, writing
Posted on August 1, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Despite the rainy intervals, these gorgeous swifts managed to catch some respite during a sunny spell, drying themselves in Lugh’s light. I’m spending Lughnasadh, also the time of Lammas and the first harvest, camping with family near a farm in Skipton. We are enjoying… Continue Reading “Merry Lughnasadh “
Category: mythology, Nature, observation, pagan, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, birds, camping, Celtic, family, lammas, Lugh, lughnasadh, magic, nature, outdoors, pagan, rain, spirituality, summer, sun, travel, weather, wheel of the year, writing
Posted on July 24, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Ah Lughnasadh! The height of summer, a time of fun and games, the rise of the competitive spirit and a time to truly honour our ancestors, just as Lugh honoured his mother at this time. I could smell it this morning; that sweetness in… Continue Reading “Online Lughnasadh Festival”
Category: education, followers, mental health, Nature, observation, pagan, poetry, seasons, society, Uncategorized, writingTags: blogging, blogs, books, celt, Celtic, disabilities, disability, lammas, lughnasadh, mabh savage, magic, magick, mental health, monday, monday blogs, mondayblogs, nature, Nimue Brown, occult, online festival, outdoors, pagan, pagan federation, paganism, poem, poetry, prose, rachel patterson, seasons, spirituality, Witchcraft, writing
Posted on July 19, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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I’m writing about Self Heal, prunella vulgaris, for next month’s Pagan Pages. I’m lucky enough to have some of the herb crawling over my lawn, and was even luckier to get this lovely visitor when I popped out to get some photos:
Category: gardening, Nature, observation, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: bee, bees, gardens, herbalism, herbs, insects, nature, outdoors, photography, plants, Self Heal, wildlife, wildlife photography, writing
Posted on July 6, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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This beauty was in my garden first thing, calmly surveying her surroundings and ignoring my cat who was clumsily stalking her. I’m fairly sure this is a female; the males usually have a much bushier tail. In Norse mythology the squirrel Ratatoskr is actually… Continue Reading “A Visit from Ratatoskr”
Category: history, mythology, Nature, observation, pagan, prose, Uncategorized, writingTags: animals, folklore, folklore thursday, garden, magic, myth, mythology, nature, norse, norse mythology, outdoors, pagan, Poetic Edda, prose, prose Edda, Ratatoskr, squirrel, squirrels, thursday, writing, Yggdrasil
Posted on July 3, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Meet Big Jim the chilli! That’s the actual name of this variety. I haven’t tried the peppers yet as this is the first. They smell sweet as opposed to fiery, but taste will tell! I haven’t grown too many plants this year what with… Continue Reading “Big Jim!”
Category: cooking, gardening, Nature, seasons, Uncategorized, writingTags: big jim, chilli, chillies, gardening, monday blogs, monday Motivation, mondayblogs, nature, pepper, peppers, plants
Posted on June 26, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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This beautiful boy just hopped casually into the garden, flopped down, spread his wings and luxuriated in the sun. Why wouldn’t you?
Category: gardening, Nature, writingTags: animals, birds, blackbird, blackbirds, garden, gardening, monday blogs, mondayblogs, nature, outdoors, summer, sun, sun worship, sunbathing
Posted on June 25, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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This gorgeous creature is a good couple of inches long. We discovered it as it was clinging onto my fiancé’s foot on the beach of Port Cristo! I rescued it (and him) and sat it in the shade until it recovered enough to move… Continue Reading “Palm Weevil”
Category: Nature, writingTags: animals, beach, bugs, insects, majorca, nature, outdoors, palm, palm weevil, porto cristo, seasons, summer, trees, weevil, weevils
Posted on June 23, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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Category: Nature, pagan, UncategorizedTags: cooking, food, insects, ladybird, midsummer, nature, nature photography, outdoors, pagan, photography, ragwort, salsify, Solstice, summer, summer solstice, tagine, wildlife, wildlife photography
Posted on June 20, 2017
by Mabh Savage
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As this was growing, prior to flowering, it looked exactly like a gladioli. Not so much now it has flowered! I love having mystery plants move into my garden. We had some cyclamen pop up from nowhere last year. Magical!
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