California Bay Laurel has long been valued for its many edible, medicinal, insecticidal, and ceremonial uses throughout its range by native cultures including the Cahuilla, Chumash, Pomo, Kashaya Pomo, Miwok, Yujki, Coos, Concow, Maidu, Costanoan, Yukok, Tongva, Tolowa, Ohlone, Karuk, Karok, Mendocino Indians, and Salinan people. – from Tree Girl California Bay Laurel (Umbellularia californica)…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
dVerse — Book Poem #1
Adjustment Day arrives for the assembled Tarantula – A Million Little Pieces with Burnt Tongues making Tracks. Traveling Light, In the Skin of a Lion, Backward Down the Path, Fugitives and Refugees — Keep Going… Bjorn Rudberg is today’s host of dVerse. Bjorn says: Go through your collection on books, and note the titles….
A2Z 2020 — essential oils — T — tea tree
“The legendary Princess Eelemani of the Bundjalung people was the Johnny Appleseed of tea tree oil. In the legend of Eelemani we learn of a beautiful princess who has to leave her true lover and travel through the bushland of coastal New South Wales. The journey was long and the forest trail was unknown to…
Navigating these Stormy Seas — luna’s on line
Chris Hall has an encouraging message for these times I wanted to share: Hold hard, me handsome hearties! He yells above the storm Together we’ll get through this if our duties we perform. Through stormy days and stormy nights our trusty craft will sail So have a care and to your posts and we’ll survive…
#FF — This Old House
This Old House Paris is in the rearview mirror. All that’s left of it is a water-damaged photo. Does it matter who dumped who when things turned sideways? You found me that night, on the bridge, plugging in to a protected power cable. I later learned about the filthy garbage bin you picked up off…
A2Z 2020 — essential oils — S — savory x 2
The genus Satureja is named for the satyrs, ancient Greek mythical demigods of the forest, who where known for their lusty habits and half-man/half goat shape. Legends held that the satyrs wore crowns of Savory, and the herb was once held to be an aphrodisiac [summer savory.] – from chaofbc Savory, summer (satureja hortensis) Plant…
dVerse — furbaby — Chauncey
Whirling dervish and unbearable jumping greeter when visitors came to call, he made it clear he was unbearably glad to see you and ignoring him was impossible. He would return to his place at my or Bob’s feet as our irreplaceable silent forever. I remember him in the yard, walking amongst the chickens, playing chase….
Tao-Talk 