Listening to our Ancestors

Listning to our Ancestors

The Celtic Feast of Spring's awakening. The snowdrop should be in flower but they are three weeks late this year. The buds on the trees are beginning to fatten and catkins are in bloom. In flower in the garden, mahonia, honeysuckle and viburnam, to eat in the garden, leeks and chervil.

Listening to our Ancestors

Listening to our Ancestors

Nine inches of snow blue sky and sunshine, wonderful, life stopped for little while then returned to normal as we learned walk and use public transport.

Listening to Our Ancestors

A new project for a new year. The plan is to explore working out of doors and to research the age old festivals and rituals that marked the events of the farming year. It started off with Plough Monday, the return to work after the Yule festival. Traditionally this was when the ploughing began. Here the ground is still very wet though the birds are singing again and the days are getting brighter.

End of November, at last something done for the Ribble Way. The hundreds of bottles washed down to the estury made a lasting impression. Why do we need to buy all these plastice bottles. 10 billion a year, they become the floating landfill. Sea birds mistake bits of plastic for food and feed it to their chicks.