i'd like to share a little story with you about a flower that bloomed in our garden this past week. several years ago i planted what i'd call a medicine garden--filled with all kinds of herbal medicines that i use to create balms, tinctures, massage oils and medicines for our friends and family. the only trouble was, the medicine never grew. or actually, it grew but was quickly eaten by the deer that live here. this year i sprinkled some of one of my loaves of soap on the medicine garden--shaved up so that i could sprinkle it on every couple of weeks or after a rain. so this year---and in fact just this past week--i had my bee balm bloom, and then my first echinacea come out. i was beside myself. first year blooms after having been planted two years ago? i'd almost given up on the idea of anything growing up here since we're so far out in the woods. yet there they were in all their glory! 
the funny thing was, as the medicine was blooming--i was in the midst of working on a medicine shirt that has flowers on it. it's the first shirt i've made with flowers on it--and i happen to be working on my appliqueing skills so it's rather detailed. for those of you who know anything about ribbon shirts, ribbon dresses, shawls or any sort of ceremonial wear--you know that these items are all made in prayer. not only a prayer for the person you're making them for, but for their prayers that will sung for, danced for or sacrificed for as they wear the item you are working on. it's truly a gift to be able to create these pieces. and it's not the first time spiritual stories or scenarios have occurred while i've been crafting away. medicine shows up in the physical world all the time if one is walking in a good way like that, continuing to pray and meditate and be guided by Creator and Mama Earth. 
last year we had a long and busy winter--with a spring that came upon us suddenly. we were left with so much standing water as the snows began to melt--culverts and ravines were sodden-ed down and thousands of mosquitoes were hatched because of it. now these mosquitoes were not your typical mosquito--they seemed to have grown double or triple the normal size of mosquitoes up here in the Northwoods. We laughed about it all around town and waited on the dragonfly's to arrive. it just so happened that i was crafting a shawl & dress for one of the granddaughters, that had dragonflies on it. so as i went outside to fringe this shawl, invariably the dragonfly's would appear. 15 plus landing on me as i fringed away--and suddenly too as if out of nowhere they were all there. They came suddenly last year and helped us all out by depopulating the huge mosquitoes. again, in all their glory! Being in connection with Mother Earth shows us time and again these small yet incredibly powerful and potent messages, if we are listening.
so as stories go, this one too will wind back around to the beginning and honor the flowers that bloomed here in the Northwood's this past week. i've taken some time to create some incredibly lovely Vintage Flower Botanical prints for you as a gift! Feel free to download & print those you like, or share them with a friend. Maybe soon you'll see some cards or tee shirts printed at our tables in the farmer's markets too! If you do use these prints--remember to give thanks to Mother Earth and all that is, was and will be. She's still struggling hard to support your earth walk and provide you with all the bounty she and Creator have created here. At this time (like no other) she's also requiring you to clean up after yourselves, recycle what you can--stop harming the four leggeds and creepy crawlies or finned ones. get your act together--and do some good for her, to her and with her.
Many thanks, continue to Bee well, Bee happy and Bee blessed,
Sandy
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