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Charles Harper

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

“The stone is a commanding viewpoint for Dunvegan village and miles around, but it is not a prehistoric monument. Instead, it was erected on midsummer's day 2000 by the villagers of Dunvegan, using only hand power and ropes. As the stone is fifteen feet high and weighs five tons, this was an impressive feat, and presumably used the same techniques as would have been used to build stone circles thousands of years ago.” I am pleased to be able to go up there every week for the view and the celebration.
#standingstone#SpringEquinox#isleofskye
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Baa Baa Brighouse

Calling all those who signed up for The Wheel of the Year - Ostara Yarn Box, it's time for the big reveal!

Introducing 'Ostara', a 100g skein of hand dyed 100% British Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply high twist sock yarn. There are two skeins in each box.

Included in the box is a a Wendy Andrews Ostara card and a bag of flower stitch markers, a tin candle, soap and vanilla tea.

Happy knitting!

Picture shows two skeins of yarn in shades of lemon with yellow, orange and green speckles.
Picture shows two skeins of yarn, one behind the other, in shades of lemon with yellow, orange and green speckles. In front of the yarn are a number of gifts including (from left to right) a tin candle, a card, flower stitch markers, a gift box containing soap and a packet of vanilla tea.
Picture shows an open A4 box containing two skeins of yarn in shades of lemon with yellow, orange and green speckles. A tin candle can also be seen. The rest of the box contents is obscured by the sides of the box.
Picture shows a closed A4 box tied with ivory ribbon.
#yarn#knitting#crochet
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Rob Pegoraro

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.

Spinach leaves gleam with green in the late-afternoon sun on March 17, 2025. Some of these went into a pot of colcannon that evening.
#arugula#cilantro#gardening
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Your Mythic Life

Ritual fire to welcome the Spring Equinox, which arrived at 5:01 Eastern Time this morning. This afternoon, I ceremonially burned the Yule wreath I made on this past Winter Solstice, December 21, 2024, as well as the greens-festooned star that decorated my gate during the winter holy days.
#spring #equinox #springequinox #vernalequinox #fire #ritual #Ostara #Eostre #Easter #YuleWreath #interfaith #interfaithminister #pagan #heathen #interfaithheathen

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