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EmaBee's Art, Seattle, WA (2025)

07/07/2025

Last summer I made myself a wooden sign from scraps of wood I found in my yard and pieces of extra chain from the shop. I put the sign on the gate to my backyard because my aim to to make the most secret and special garden. Yesterday I had a BBQ with friends in my backyard, so the few weeks prior I have been working hard to clean up the yard....

Last summer I made myself a wooden sign from scraps of wood I found in my yard and pieces of extra chain from the shop. I put the sign on the gate to my backyard because my aim to to make the most …

05/13/2025

I haven’t been posting for each season change this year because I haven’t felt called to. But I do feel called to share this one. Hawthorn is also known as the May tree, it gets clusters of pink right around the first of May. My beloved hawthorn is getting a hard prune and some cables on May 19th. I’m trying to prepare that she will look very different but hopefully healthier so that she will last as long as she can....

I haven’t been posting for each season change this year because I haven’t felt called to. But I do feel called to share this one. Hawthorn is also known as the May tree, it gets clusters of pink ri…

04/09/2025

Coming to the crest of the hill before I dip down into the valley, the sun nearly blinds me glinting off of the water in the roadway. The road dips, steeply and curves and before I plunge down, I can see all the way across to the other side of the valley and the entire valley is blanketed with fog making it look like a roiling cauldron or a lake....

Coming to the crest of the hill before I dip down into the valley, the sun nearly blinds me glinting off of the water in the roadway. The road dips, steeply and curves and before I plunge down, I c…

02/24/2025

I’ve Dreamt of this House Before.We enter throughA thick door, dark woodCarved with a detailedScene of a forest With animals treesMountains and a lakeVines curling along the sidesAs if we are peaking through a windowInto another world. We lift the tarnished bronze latchAnd heave open and push throughThe portal entrance…...

I’ve Dreamt of this House Before.We enter throughA thick door, dark woodCarved with a detailedScene of a forest With animals treesMountains and a lakeVines curling along the sidesAs if we are …

02/21/2025

Winding through the tall Red Cedar and Western Hemlock on a narrow two-lane road toward, the ocean comes in and out of view through the interstices of the trees as rain comes down in spits and spatters. At one point the sky becomes the ocean and we can barely see the road in front of us, but then miles later, the sun peeks through refusing to be swallowed....

Winding through the tall Red Cedar and Western Hemlock on a narrow two-lane road toward, the ocean comes in and out of view through the interstices of the trees as rain comes down in spits and spat…

11/16/2024

On the drive up to the mountain, traveling back home after going to see the stars in the dark skies, there is a nondescript turnoff from the road. It’s rocky and dusty and you have to be careful not to bottom out. There are two small clearings along the river, well worn from use as off-road camping sites. There are Spruce and Cedar, and Nootka Rose....

On the drive up to the mountain, traveling back home after going to see the stars in the dark skies, there is a nondescript turnoff from the road. It’s rocky and dusty and you have to be careful no…

10/10/2024

I harvested some mugwort today, fresh from the small patch I am nurturing in my herb garden. I currently have it in an old whiskey barrel because the guy at my favorite nursery, Calendula Farms in Tacoma, WA, warned me it can spread and take over like mint. At this point I kind of wish it did! It’s the first harvest I’ve made that is good to use fresh and I also picked some for drying....

I harvested some mugwort today, fresh from the small patch I am nurturing in my herb garden. I currently have it in an old whiskey barrel because the guy at my favorite nursery, Calendula Farms in …

09/29/2024

Autumnal EquinoxThe withdrawingThe darkeness envelopingThe inward journey The autumn equinox truly feels like the beginning of “my” time. It marks the start of the nights being longer than days, the cooling, and the inward drawing. Returning our energy to our roots, like oak, birch, beech, and larch. Let yourself sink into your core. It is known by many names: Mabon, Alban Elued/Elfed, and the Autumn/Fall Equinox....

Autumnal EquinoxThe withdrawingThe darkeness envelopingThe inward journey [Early Autumn Oracle Cards by Maia Toll, from her book,“Wild Wisdom Companion.”] The autumn equinox truly feels like the be…

09/04/2024

In Memory of the Hollow It’s one of those morningsThe mist hangs like heavy laceAcross the low parts of the valleyIn the cleavages and dips of the landFog resting before the sun swallows itThe sun brightOn the tips of the treesAs it rises over the hills and the mountainsThe mounds of rolling grasses…...

[train tracks between Puyallup & Sumner – not the exact place this poem is about, but not far and quite similar. This place could meet a similar fate soon. – on the ancestral land o…

08/02/2024

The garden update from Lughnasadh Eve, is green lush, in bloom, and the beginning of the wind-down of summer. Yesterday, August 1, was the celebration of Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas, or the beginning of the harvest season. It marks the halfway point between the Summer Solstice (Alban Arthuan/ Litha) and the Autumn Equinox (Alban Elued/ Mabon). Lughnasadh to me is sunflowers, marigolds, and black-eyed-susans; the latter just now bursting into bloom....

The garden update from Lughnasadh Eve, is green lush, in bloom, and the beginning of the wind-down of summer. Yesterday, August 1, was the celebration of Lughnasadh, also known as Lammas, or the be…

07/11/2024

She spoke in the voice of 1000 setting suns Her wide ocean hipsMountainous arms stretchhair of moss and soilCrowned by a ring of all the flowers of the earth Stars and fireflies adorn her sacred locksHer lifeblood golden, of the sun’s rays and the salty tears of weeping.Tiny feet of salamanders dance out the beat of her heart…...

She spoke in the voice of 1000 setting suns Her wide ocean hipsMountainous arms stretchhair of moss and soilCrowned by a ring of all the flowers of the earth Stars and fireflies adorn her sacred lo…

06/21/2024

Today is the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, the longest day and shortest night of the year. It is also known as Alban Heruin by Druids and some Celts. The sun opens her arms wide, taking up space today stretching wide and vast. Barely time to sleep, the summer energy rising. We’re also almost at a full moon, tomorrow night it will be full....

Today is the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere, the longest day and shortest night of the year. It is also known as Alban Heruin by Druids and some Celts. The sun opens her arms wide, taki…

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