Beltaine....

 

Moon Moth

 

The largest moth in the world, with a 9" wingspan and 8" long tails. The adult cannot feed and lives only 4 or 5 days.

Photograph by: Andrey Antov

Mystical Nature -

Frost Flowers

It is as beautiful as it is rare. A frost flower is created on autumn or early winter mornings when ice in extremely thin layers is pushed out from the stems of plants or occasionally wood. This extrusion creates wonderful patterns which curl and fold into gorgeous frozen petioles giving this phenomenon both its name and its appearance.

Conditions have to be just so for frost flowers to form. Early winter and late autumn are the optimum time to come across them as although the weather conditions must be freezing it is vital that the ground is not'. Frost flower formations are also referred to as frost castles, ice castles, ice blossoms, or crystallofolia

This looks delicious…like a pretty popsicle or cotton candy.  I would probably eat it…

Source and Image: http://www.kuriositas.com/2012/12/frost-flowers-natures-exquisite-ice.html

Close to Nature...

"Study Nature, love Nature, stay close to Nature.

 She will never fail you."

 - F.L. Wright

Sources: Photo by http://ezorenier.deviantart.com/

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Hecate's Garden

The garden of Hecate, wherein she grew her poisonous plants and medicinal herbs, was on found Phasis. It was next to the Imperial city of Aetes surrounded by insurmountable walls nine fathoms high, protected by seven bastions and guarded by three iron towers. High on the posts of the tower stood Artemis, radiating a trembling brilliance, with a horrifying gaze no mortal could withstand, if he did not approach with gifts and purification offerings.”

~ Johann H. Dierbach, Flora Mythologica oder Plfanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und Römer

*Description of Hecate’s garden from Orphic Songs of the Argonauts*

“There was a grove in the innermost room of the enclosure,

Where lush green wood ascends with shadowy tips,

Laurel trees and cornelian cherry and slender planatos aloft.

There are also many herbs in this place, arching over the deep roots;

Klymenos, complete with the noble asfoldelos, and adiantos,

Aristeron, most tender of plants, and kypeiros with thyron,

Kyklaminos, like the violet, and erysimon, complete with hormion,

Stoichas, then paiona, surrounded by thickets of polyknemon.

Then polion, mandragoras also, and pale diktammon,

Krokos with sweet scent, and kardamom, next to kemos,

Smilax, dark poppy, and low chamamelon,

Panakes and alkeja, with karpason and akaoniton…

And many more poisonous rose up from the ground.”

http://www.cinemagia.ro/filme/the-good-witchs-garden-479123/imagini-hires/481300/

Fall in the Forest

 

Source http://recept.se/

Forest Faery oil by The Stroke Of Midnight on www.etsy.com.....call upon the forest fae