The Duirinish Stone was NOT erected thousands of years ago. Set in a concrete base, it stands approximately 5m high and was erected by hand. That is to say it was pulled up the hill and set in place by human power. See the ALT for more information…

A view from the ’Two Churches Walk.near Dunvegan. Healaval Mhor* is the flat topped hill in the distance.
* sometimes called MacLeod’s Table North

Happy Spring Equinox!!!!!!!!

A spring gardening surprise: green leaves instead of green shoots

So much is terrible in the world right now, but at least I’m not looking at lettuce as a grocery line-item expense on the first day of spring. That’s not because I’ve renounced leafy greens as a sandwich fixing, but because the spinach and some of the arugula that I grew from seed in the fall somehow survived winter.

Alongside them in the raised bed outside the back patio, parsley and, even less likely, cilantro have staged their own late-winter resurrections.

I can’t imagine why even the most fault-tolerant of these plants should have done that. This winter, unlike many in recent years, not only had extended hard freezes but multiple snow days that left that bed buried in snow for days at a stretch. Even building a cold frame should have been inadequate.

Having done nothing to prolong those crops, I should have had to start from scratch about two weeks before today, scattering dirt and seeds and looking forward to seeing the first green shoots emerge from the soil later this month.

(To anybody reading this intimidated by the idea of starting a vegetable garden: It’s hard to screw up arugula in the spring, and it’s also hard to find a recipe that can’t be improved with a little of it.)

Instead, after 20 years of having this questionably-productive hobby, I now need to decide if want to dig up some of these survivors to try growing some lettuce to mix things up. And if this means that my long losing streak of trying to cultivate tomatoes might be due for a change in a couple of months. This unearned gardening luck is not much in the larger scheme of things, but I’ll take it.

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Happy First Day of #Spring! In my part of the world, I won't see flowers open for about another month, but here are some of my favourite early-bloomers!

For #spring, my little snowdrop. It glows softly (there's a light in the flower), but its glow is best seen at night. See the second pic for a bit of the glow.

I haven’t shared much about this piece yet - maybe because it’s a little different from my usual embroidery work. But I like how delicate it turned out.

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Aujourd'hui on fête Ostara, la fête païenne de l'équinoxe du printemps: le jour et la nuit sont d'égale durée avant que le jour prenne le pas jusqu'au solstice, la nature renaît...
Pour fêter ce moment particulier j'ai réalisé ce dessin "La naissance d'Ostara", tout de vert vêtu!

A4 disponibles:
https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/la-renaissance-dostara-dessin-numerique-imprime/

Et cartes postales:
https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/la-renaissance-dostara-carte-postale/

Spring has sprung! This is the Honey Bee from the Everyday Witch's Familiars Oracle illustrated by me, written by Deborah Blake, published by Llewellyn.

While you patiently wait for the Whimsy Woods Tarot deck, you can check out our Everyday Witch's Familiars oracle deck! Whimsy Woods will be our fourth deck together.

Signed decks and prints are in my shop at http://albaillustration.etsy.com

wind chimes welcome spring
gentle equinox, it’s breeze
barely stirs the soul

exit, pursued by a lamb,
to bumble bees and birdsong

Happy Spring Equinox from Michigan, lol!

Crow spring.

It's officially the first day of Spring 2025, and today I spotted this fully decorated Christmas tree on a balcony in Glasgow!

Happy official day of spring fellas! Spring knight - freshly rescanned for ya!

As spring blooms, let’s not forget the real growth we need: a decline in corporate greed and a rise in community care. The world needs more empathy, less exploitation. #SpringEquinox #SocialJustice

FOOD FOR THE EQUINOX

Food plays an important roll at Higan (彼岸 - the equinox).

On the first and last day of the equinoctial week, rice dumplings (団子 'dango') are offered at the family altar.
Rice cakes covered in bean jam (botamochi in spring and ohagi in fall) are presented mid-week.