The Serviceberry And More

Serviceberry Iron County, Utah

While hiking, I was drawn to a big bush with small white flowers. Each flower had 5 white petals that shimmered in the sunlight as they swayed on the breeze. She was a Serviceberry. I took a picture of her.




In the picture, at the top of this page, you can see something orange stuck in among the flowers and leaves. Take a look. Could it be an autumn leaf that survived the winter browning?




When I got home and uploaded the file, I noticed this out of place leaf. I enlarged the photo and I found it to be a stunning butterfly ! Her body was a sliver blue and her colors flowed from green to raspberry to yellow, and orange. Why, I had never seen a butterfly with rainbow colors! Have you ?

The butterflies lingered on the serviceberry.

Sometimes we are drawn to a certain, tree, flower, or rock, not knowing why. I say, follow your impulse to sit by it, touch it, be with it for awhile, take a picture of it. More times than not, you may discover more than meets the eye.




When we appreciate Nature she is always
beaming more Nature towards us to appreciate.



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The more you appreciate Nature, the more Nature experiences will come to you. That is because Nature Loves Appreciation !

Fennel Plant- Everlasting Life

The Fennel Plant: LIFE EVERLASTING

 

Fennel plants show all stages of life. www.NatureLovesAppreciation.blogspot.com

 

It was April 20, 2002.

While hiking, I stopped here on this path. I sensed this fennel plant was communicating with me by emitting a smoky purple haze which shimmered and connected to my eyes, mind, and heart. I could clearly interpret this energy as connected to all life in a continuous loop. I noticed the fresh green growth rising from the earth and the old boney branches seemingly dead, and the seeds which formed at the top for renewal and life everlasting.

I stood there in awe and received confirmation as I stood on this path. If you look with soft eyes you will sense the life and love and power within this photograph. ~ Deborah Moon Moen

Have you ever seen the energy of plants and trees? It looks like hazy smoky vibrations coming up and out from the tips of trees and plants. Try it sometime. It was there all along yet you had not noticed it or known to look for it.



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Everlasting Life Greeting Card by LittleUtahFarm
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This is a greeting card with a very special story. I created this for those who want to be inspired. It has my personal testimony to everlasting life. It could be for anyone who has lost a loved one or a pet and this card would be wonderful as an Easter card. The front of the card reads Everlasting on a background of lovely mauve. The inside flap of the card has the above story with photographs. You may customize the inside with your own special message.

Fast And Furious Harvest

The forecast was a coming... a hard freeze coming tonight!

Photograph by ©DeborahMoen  Poppies First Frost October 2014
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I looked out over my garden and memories flooded my mind

The corn had just been picked the day before. I admired the wild sunflowers bordering the fence, now just hard prickly bones rattling in the breeze. The garden was brimming with Green Ice lettuce, Heinz tomatoes just turning red, yummy pungent basil, fragrant cilantro, tall graceful dill and my Shirley Poppies and Cosmos were just beginning to open their faces to the sun.


A bit of denial and stubbornness came over me when I heard the weather report. Then I did what any smitten gardener would do and harvested all I could that night. UP came the Ruby lettuce. UP came the basil roots ripping from the cold soil. Down came the sheets and blankets to cover the dill and the pretty wild flowers.  I picked all the tomatoes green, red, big, and small.

I felt worried and sort of panicked at the sudden news, then a calm came over me. I knelt down and whispered to all my lovelies,  " I love you, I thank you, I will see you next spring."

The very act of communicating and thanking the garden calmed my stress. It was healing and soothing.


There are no good-byes

There are no good-byes. Maybe a twang of bitter sweetness.  I prefer to get caught up in the thrill of fragrances, textures, feelings of appreciation and fun projects like washing, cutting, drying and cutting the string to hang all the green stuff up in the kitchen.

Drying my herbs Fast and Furious
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The garden is a perfect example of how life goes on and on, in a sort of Circle.   Life is eternal.



Jack Frost came in the night

I checked the garden the next morning and discovered a sugar-like frosting on the uncovered plants. There is a child-like wonder that comes over me when I see the ice sparkling in the morning sun. The tomato plant already had gone to sleep with blackened leaves and limp stems. Everything else did quite well and I had an abundance of leftovers still living and thriving in the garden.



Nature is my teacher

I learned to enjoy each day as well as I was able. This is not a rehearsal, you know. Each changing mode of seasons scolds me and holds me in it's arms and makes me look at myself.

There seems to be a re-occurring mantra that I have yet to learn, busy-ness. I am constantly hearing that little voice in my head saying, " Go sit out in the garden. Enjoy what you have here". I do not always listen because I have this and that to do.  I do believe it is good to take time to enjoy and savor.  It feels good. All the systems in the body get oiled with all those feel good chemicals as you relax into the wonder and elixir of Nature. 

I live and learn....next year I hope I will spend more time basking in Nature. How about you?


Thank you for coming to share in my joy.

Tel us about your harvest this year.

Until next time,

Nature Loves Appreciation

John Muir's stories are narrated by Lee Stetson. He actually performs as John Muir in the Yosemite National Park. This is the audio opened my heart to a deeper understanding of nature appreciation.