Hard frosts, Dark nights, Full moons ...................... Wintering and Fat Badgers

As December dawns and the frosty mornings sprinkle stars on the hard ground, there's a joy in closing the curtains and curling up.

A beautiful seasonal slowing down, a time for painting, reading, and dreaming.

Wintering

I bought myself a book, 'Wintering' by Katherine May

Hard Frosts

So beautiful, visually, a feast for the eyes. So harsh on nature, forcing the last leaves to fall, and growth to stall. The animal instinct in us knows to retreat. It's in our DNA and our grandmother's wisdom. But just as in autumn we know winter is coming, in winter we know spring is coming.

Dark Nights

Embracing the sometimes scary darkness of winter.

Turning off the noise, creating space for the dark.

Accepting the slowing down and welcoming the wisdom of winter.

Full Moons

The moons this winter seem to have been bigger, more illuminating, enchanting, expanding.
  Clear seeing, knowing that the work and the gathering done in the summer months will nourish and sustain until the spring.

Coming home .... and Fat Badgers

On my way home, a rare glimpse of a fluffed-up fat badger as he snuffled along the lane.

He makes me smile.