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Sleeping potions

Sleep is vitally important, we all know that, but sometimes missing a night of sleep reminds us just how important!  For a variety of reasons I got very little sleep one night this week (a wakeful child, a dang mosquito, loud rain and wind). Usually I am a great sleeper,…

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Pink Lady Slippers

Hello there. I hope you are having a good week. I found these glorious Pink Lady Slippers blooming in a nearby pine forest and was thrilled. They are endangered because they are so slow-growing and need a certain fungus in the soil to germinate.  It was fun to find such…

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Forget-Me-Not

Here is a picture of a tiny Forget-Me-Not; one of my favorite spring flowers. In looking it up this morning I learned that it is fragrant in nighttime and evening but has no scent in the daytime.  I had no idea! It’s been one of my favorite flowers for years,…

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Cottonwood Seeds

This is the time of year when the Cottonwood seeds are drifting through the spring air.  I tried to grab a photo above of the fuzzy seeds floating in the blue sky at the Green River Swimming Area yesterday. Part of why I love them is they move slowly, twirl…

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Black Locust Flowers

Hey there, Hope all is well in your world. Look at these gorgeous Black Locust Flowers. They are blooming everywhere here in Western Massachusetts. They give off a scent of sweet jasmine candy. Delicious! I can hardly stand it. Most of the blooms are really high in these tall trees,…

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Ladybug

I also was pleased to see this sweet little ladybug on an Autumn Olive on my walk today.  I haven’t seen a ladybug outside in a while (plenty of another type of ladybug in my house in late winter) This one was so bright and red on the green leaf;…

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The Tapping Points

One of the questions I get ask most frequently is “Where do I tap, again?  I forget.” People have seen the videos, been to a class or read about tapping but they can’t really remember where to tap.  (Tapping is a technique to stimulate the acupuncture meridians and soothe the…

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