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#MorningPages 01 March 2026 🐇🐇
11. Ventôse honoring Narcissus, St David’s Day, Mercedes de Acosta b. 1892, Lent*, Ramadan*
#Herb of the Day: Purple Clover • Trifolium pratense #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - sage, F
#ink Colorverse hwang Cho
#tarot or #OracleDeck Wild Medicine herbal deck
 #CardOfTheDay Ginger • Zingiber officinale - fire up your love, attract wealth & prosperity

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “De Acosta has usually been described disparagingly, dismissed as a "notorious lesbian" who was a dishonest nuisance to her lovers and who consistently "stalked" Garbo. Garbo's biographers, for example, assess their relationship from Garbo's perspective in which Garbo is fundamentally blameless in their difficult relationship, a perpetual victim of de Acosta's alleged irksome behavior. But Robert A. Schanke, de Acosta's recent biographer, attempts, on the basis of extensive research, to provide an accurate picture of her. She was, Schanke acknowledges, flawed and imperfect, a complex woman who impaired several of her relationships and failed to achieve her professional and romantic aspirations. But he reveals her to have been an exceptionally lively, intelligent, and dynamic person who had many devoted friends. She was, he argues, a brave lesbian of her times and a person of integrity who remained kind and loyal to most everyone with whom she crossed paths. He suggests that the many denigrating portrayals of her may derive from the deep homophobia of her generation.” — Wikipedia, last updated January 10, 2026. Below the text is a card with a splotchy watercolor illustration of a ginger plant, rhizome exposed; a pale green fountain pen; a swatch of pale, dusty gray ink; and a sample vial of same.

#MorningPages 28 February 2026
10. Ventôse honoring the Spade, Kalevala Day, Moina Mathers b. 1865, St. Conaire, St. Romanus, Lent*, Ramadan*
#Herb of the Day: Purple Clover • Trifolium pratense #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Moon Man Ti200 - brushed, F
#ink Diamine Marley
#tarot or #OracleDeck The Oracle of Dr John Dee
 #CardOfTheDay Red Geographer • Marco Polo - “How can you strengthen your connection to the world around you?”

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “If you have a flint, a small one, And a little piece of tinder, Strike a light as quick as may be, Light the pine-chip in the holder, Then go out to clear the cowshed, And the cattle do thou fodder, For the mother's cow is lowing, And the father's horse is neighing, And her chain the son's cow rattles, And the daughter's calf is lowing, That the soft hay should be thrown them, And the clover laid before them.” — Runo XXIII - The Instructing of the Bride, Kalevala: The Land of Heroes, compiled by Elias Lönnrot, translated from the original Finnish by W. F. Kirby, in Two Volumes, (1907) 1914. Below the text is a card with an illustrated portrait of Marco Polo with a wolf man’s head as a hat and flanked by two demons from the goetia; a brushed steel fountain pen; a swatch of chromashading purple ink; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 26 February 2026
8. Ventôse honoring the Violet, Anniversary of the Death of Socrates*, Lent*, Ramadan*
#Herb of the Day: Lesser Periwinkle • Vinca minor & “Galingale” • Alpinia galanga #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen ystudio Resin - red, F
#ink Kyo no oto adzukiiro
#tarot or #OracleDeck Liminal Spirits Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Goat - craft your own reality of who you are

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “43. Galangæ, of Galangal. It is a small knotty root. This is distinguished into the greater and lesser sort; the latter of which is preferred. Clusius and ſome others judge it to be a species of the iris; and others of the Acorus. And the lesser kind is by the modern Greeks called Cyperus Babylonica. That which is heavy, well-scented, and of a reddish colour, is best. It is much warmer than the Acorus, and is much esteemed in flatulencies and indigestions. It is used, with success in all indispositions either of the head, stomach, or womb, arising from weakness of the nerves. It is a very good ingredient in stomachic bitters, and in all compositions that answer the intentions of a cardiac or cephalic.” — Johnson Quincy, Pharmacopœia Oficinalis & Extemporanea : Or, a compleat English Dispensatory in Two Parts, THEORETIC and PRACTICAL, 1749. Below the text is a card with an illustration done entirely in blue of a horned goat with human eyes looking at the viewer; a red fountain pen; a swatch of red bean colored ink; and a rounded rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 25 Feb 26
7. Ventôse honoring Italian Buckthorn, St Walpurga, Ritual Feeding of Springs, Lent*, Ramadan*
#Herb of the Day: Peach • Amygdalus persica & Saffron Crocus • Crocus sativa #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - candied violet, EF
#ink Diamine Deck the Halls
#tarot or #OracleDeck Lineages of Change
 #CardOfTheDay Root of Earth -reversed- you may be expecting outcomes without doing the work; herb: Elecampane

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “1170. A December sleet indicates a good peach crop. 1171. When the wind blows from the south on Christmas Day, there will be fine peaches that year. 1172. We shall not have any peaches, if it thunders on the 12th of February. 1173. Peach trees in bloom will never freeze in the light of the moon. 1174. Unless you plant two peach trees, a male and a female, you will not get any fruit. "You can tell a woman and man peach tree by the leaves. A man peach tree has wide leaves. A woman peach tree has narrow leaves." 1175. The peach tree with the smallest blossoms produces the largest fruit, and conversely, the tree with the largest blossoms bears the smallest fruit. 1176. When you plant a peach tree, put old buckets and old shoes in the hole, and the tree will grow well. 1177. "Empty your chamber pot every morning against a peach tree, so it will bear better." 1178. Plant tansy about a peach tree and worms will not molest the tree. 1179. The person who swallows a peach seed will have a peach tree growing in his stomach.” — Harry Middleton Hyatt, Folk-Lore of Adams County Illinois, 1935. Below the text is a card with an illustration split in six sections two with eyes, two with hands on a snake and the center two with a yellow flower; a purple fountain pen; a swatch of dark purple ink with purple/gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 24 Feb 26
6. Ventôse honoring Wild Ginger, Regifugium, Lent*, Matthias the Apostle, Ramadan*, Johann Weyer d. 1588, Festival of Osiris
#Herb of the Day: Great Fern • Osmanda regalis & Mimosa • Mimosa sensitiva #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear blue, F
#ink Colorverse DaVinci Glow
#tarot or #OracleDeck Guardians of the Night
 #CardOfTheDay 8. Strength - change of the snake, resourcefulness of the mouse

Open notebook w/ handwritten text from the post at the top of the page w/ add’l text: “In his massive treatise De praestigiis daemonum (1583), the famous medical doctor and author Johann Weyer declared: ‘Our fellow Germans use one and the same word Zauberer for the magician who is a professional deceiver and illusionist and often well educated . . .’ He was primarily concerned to combat the uncontrolled witch craze and argued that ‘these writers provide drawn sword and kindling for the savage executioners, who lack judgment, discretion, and any trace of pity’ in their persecution of women accused of being witches. Consequently Weyer discusses the entire group of “infamous magicians, the origin of magic, and the destiny of later practitioners of magic. In that context he also outlines Faustus’s biography, and reviews books of magic. Without going into details, we can thus conclude that the discourse on magic grew considerably in the late Middle Ages and then continued well into the early modern age, although I am not sure that we can be certain that the interest in magic, witchcraft, sorcery has waned truly, though it has surely been marginalized or pushed into the background in modern times.” — Albrecht Classen, Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time, 2017. Below the text is a card with a snake and mouse facing off, a full moon above, a human heart between; a fountain pen; a swatch of chroma shading blue ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

#MorningPages 17 Feb 2026
29. Pluviôse honoring Celadine, Giordano Bruno d. 1600, Quirinalia, Parentalia, Rose Chadesh (Adar)*, Surya Grahan, Toshigoi, Lunar New Year (🔥🐴)*, Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday, a Tycho Brahe day, New Moon in Aquarius, Annular Eclipse
#Herb of the Day: Dittany • Cunila mariana #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted
#FountainPen Lamy Safari - scarlet, F
#ink Diamine Bah Humbug
#tarot or #OracleDeck Moonology
 #CardOfTheDay New Moon in Aquarius, New Moon Eclipse

Anyone knows what this is? There were two yellow cloves inside the garlic bulb. The rest was just plain white.

#herb #kitchen

Two yellow garlic cloves and an ordinary white one that is sprouting

#MorningPages 16 February 2026
28. Pluviôse honoring the Cyclamen, Pamela Coleman-Smith b. 1878, Parentalia
#Herb of the Day: Sumac • Rhustypina (Rhus typhina) #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Monteverde Mountains of Earth
#ink Monteverde Citrine
#tarot or #OracleDeck Tea-Stained Tarot (RWS)
 #CardOfTheDay IV of Swords - restriction

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Before you ask about sumac being poisonous, let me explain. Yes, there is such a thing as poison sumac, but it’s a pretty rare plant, growing primarily in wetlands east of the Mississippi. It’s also very easy to differentiate between poison sumac and edible sumacs when the plants are in fruit. Poison sumac has loose, drooping clusters of white berries that emerge from between the leaves. Edible sumac has red fruit borne in terminal clusters (at the ends of branches). Since the only part of the plant I recommend eating is the fruit, the color makes it pretty easy to tell which is which. There are many types of edible sumac in the United States, including smooth sumac (Rhus glabra), staghorn sumac (R. typhina), and three-leaved sumac (R. trilobata), among others. All produce red berries with varying degrees of sourness. While some people eat the young shoots of sumac stems, I’m not impressed enough by the flavor to go out of my way for them.” — Ellen Zachos, How to Forage for Wild Foods without Dying, 2023. Below the text is a four of swords tarot card as drawn by Colman-Smith with a knight’s effigy in a church and a stained-glass window beyond with a sword at his side and three hanging on the wall above; a black fountain pen with gunmetal trim; a swatch of burnt orange ink; and a rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 15 February 2026
27. Pluviôse honoring Hazel, Lupercalia, Parentalia, Theogamia, Maha Shivaratri, Quinquagesima, Parinirvana Day, Feast of Anubis
#Herb of the Day: Cloth of Gold• Crocus sutianus
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Kaweco Student - rock, M
#ink Sailor Seiboku
#tarot or #OracleDeck Mildred Payne’s Secret Pocket Oracle Deluxe Seance Edition
 #CardOfTheDay 20 Boot - travel, discipline

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “In contrast to the poor support that Rome’s rituals offer for Elysium, the manes are well represented in Roman worship and on Rome’s festival calendar. In addition to the aforementioned opening of the Mundus, there was also the Parentalia, a nine-day festival for the manes in February, and the Lemuria, a three-day festival in May (see chapter 7). There were also home shrines that Romans used to worship manes, like those that Statius describes (Silv., 2.7.120–131, 3.3.195–216). A wide range of texts refer to prayers to the manes or oaths sworn by the power of the manes (chapter 5). Even at the funeral itself, a major part of the ritual involves making the grave into a sacred space for the new manes, including the sacrifice of a pig to the dead person (chapter 6.D.2). Unlike Elysium, the manes and their power were central to the Roman rites that concerned death.” — Charles W. King, The Ancient Roman Afterlife, 2020. Below the text is a blue card with a simple illustration of a lace-up, high-heeled boot; a blue and ivory fountain pen with gold-tone trim; a swatch of medium blue ink; and a sample vial of same.

#MorningPages 14 February 2026
26. Pluviôse honoring Woad, St. Valentine, Parentalia, Libations to Aphrodite*, Sts. Cyril & Methodist, Feast of Nuit
#Herb of the Day: Yellow Spring Crocus • Crocus maesiacus
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - Au black, M
#ink Diamine Sparkling Shadows
#tarot or #OracleDeck Midnight Magic
 #CardOfTheDay V The Hierophant - Turkey Tail • Trametes versicolor - unity, education, tradition

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Turkey tail (Trametes versicolor) is another very important Asian medicinal mushroom. In terms of the quality of the scientific research that has been done, turkey tail, along with shiitake, is “the most credible of them all,” said Christopher Hobbs, an herbalist and author of Medicinal Mushrooms. Turkey tail is used in TCM to treat pulmonary disorders, and two polysaccharide compounds from this fungus, PSP and PSK, are used as standard adjuvant cancer therapies in Japan and China, respectively, as immune stimulators. Gary Lincoff has a story about a pharmaceutical company that asked him for an exciting new mushroom they should explore. He pointed them toward the turkey tail. ‘In fact, it’s growing in your parking lot!’ he told the executives, which seemed to turn them off. ‘I guess they wanted to go to Papua New Guinea,’ sighed Lincoff.” — Eugenia Bone, Mycophilia, 2013. Below the text is a black card with an illustration of a turkey tail mushroom on a stump with flowers growing underneath; a gold-tone pen; a swatch of charcoal ink with gold shimmer; and a cylindrical bottle of same.

#MorningPages 12 February 2026
24. Pluviôse honoring Common Knotgrass, St. Julian the Hospitaler, Petrarch finishes I Trionfi 1374
#Herb of the Day: Noble Liverwort • Anemone hepatica & Willow-herb • Epilobium hirsutum
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Platinum Prefonte - dark emerald, M
#ink Colorverse Erebus Crater
#tarot or #OracleDeck Coastal Curiosities
 #CardOfTheDay Wonder

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Long ago John Ray explained that Epilobium hirsutum was called Codlins-and-cream ‘from the smell of the leaves a little bruised’; and this has been repeated a hundred times in book after book by botanists who never crushed the leaves and smelt them. They have no characteristic smell, nor have the flowers, although Sowerby in English Botany attributes the name to the flower scent, which he calls very ‘transitory’. A first clue may be in Gerard’s Herbal. There the species is called ‘Codded Willow herbe’—‘the flower groweth at the top of the stalke, comming out of the end of a small long codde’. ‘Codded Willow herbe’ no doubt suggested ‘Codlin Willow-herb’, the willow-herb of the codlin or cooking apple. Codlins were often boiled in milk and then eaten with cream, so, as a next stage, the rosy and white combination in the flowers (rosy petals, creamy-white stigma) may have suggested the name Codlins-and-cream, which in turn suggested other fruit names, Apple-pie, Gooseberry-pie, and Cherry-pie, which is well fitted to the cherry colour of the flowers.” — Geoffrey Gregson, The Englishman’s Flora, (1958) 1960. Below the text is a small card with an illustrator a raccoon on a barrel, a chipmunk on its back while it looks at mushrooms with binoculars; a green fountain pen; a swatch of sage green chromashading ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

#MorningPages 11 February 2026
23. Pluviôse honoring Couchgrass, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Cædmom, St. Gobnait, Fornacalia
#Herb of the Day: Red Primrose • Primula Verna rubes
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy AL-star - purple
#ink Diamine Masquerade
#tarot or #OracleDeck Tiny Teacup Pocket Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Persevere

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Poultry keepers were wary of bringing various flowers into their homes until their chicks and goslings had safely hatched. Primroses (Primula vulgaris), or at least fewer than thirteen primrose flowers, brought indoors would mean bad luck hatching chicks, while few goslings would hatch if flowering goat willow (Salix caprea) was brought in. Fishermen thought plants provided indication of when various fish were in season. In Herefordshire, alder (Alnus glutinosa), known locally as aul, was observed, and it was said: “When the bud of the aul is as big as a trout’s eye / Then that fish is in season in the River Wye”. In Guernsey the flowering of foxgloves (Digitalis purpurea) indicated the start of the mackerel season; according to a verse in the local patois: “Quand tu vé epani l’claquet / Met tes leines dans ten bate/ Et t’en vâs au macré” (When you see the foxglove blossoming, put your fishing-tackle into your boat, and go off for mackerel.)” — David J. Mabberley, A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century, 2022. Below the text is a small card with an illustrator a snail on a mushroom trying to eat some raspberries; a purple fountain pen; a swatch of dusty rose ink with gold shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 10 February 2026
22. Pluviôse honoring the Rose Daphne, St. Scholastica, Fornacalia, a Tycho Brahe day
#Herb of the Day: Mezereon • Daphne mezeron (mezereum)
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Lamy Studio - dark brown, M
#ink Diamine Wilted Rose
#tarot or #OracleDeck TreeLore Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay American Hazel • Corylus americana - wisdom, creativity

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “A famous legend, called the mezereon legend (tibastsägen), is told in various versions in all parts of Sweden. There was a farmer who the Skogsrå would not leave alone. As soon as the evening came he was unable to stay at home, but run outside into the forest, where he stayed all night. Once his wife happened upon the Skogsrå and the wife asked, what should I do about the big bull that will not come home at night? Well, the Skogsrå said, you take mezereon and valeriana and moss from the roof on the north side of the chimney, and boil it and give to him.* The wife did this and gave it to her husband and he never went to the forest at night again. The Skogsrå’s cry could be heard all over the land: Mezeron and valeriana, damned shall I be for teaching you healing!” — Sorita d'Este & David Rankine, The Faerie Queens, 2012. [* Daphne mezereum is very toxic because of the compounds mezerein and daphnin, present especially in the berries and twigs.] Below the text is a card with an ecoprint of hazel leaves in golds and browns; a brown fountain pen with silver trim; a swatch of pinky brown ink; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 09 February 2026
21. Pluviôse honoring Pennycress, Fornacalia, Feast of Neith
#Herb of the Day: Roman Narcissus • Narcissus romanus
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen TWSBI Eco - black, 1.1 stub
#ink Diamine Best Wishes
#tarot or #OracleDeck The Witch’s Ally Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Turtle - slow and methodical processes will create greater comfort and stability.

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Field pennycress is not the easiest plant to identify in its spring rosette form; the white, four-petaled flowers and raceme of flat, round, notched seedpods that develop later are much more distinctive. But once it bolts and flowers, younger specimens are often to be found nearby, so looking at mature specimens first is good strategy for helping to make a positive identification. The dried forms with their penny- shaped pods can often be found close by too. I first learned field pennycress by spending a season watching rosettes grow, hypothesizing which were pennycress based on the four stages of photos in Cattail Bob Seebeck’s excellent but out-of-print guide, Best-Tasting Wild Plants of Colorado and the Rockies (1998), and then observing their growth to confirm my suspicions. The next year they popped up in the same place again, making identification in the rosette form easier.” — Wild Food Girl, “The Mustards are Coming!” Wild Edible Notebook, April 2014 (updated 2022). Below the text is a card with an illustration of a turtle with a smaller turtle on its back; a clear plastic and black fountain pen; a swatch dark green ink with red sheen and green shimmer; and a rectangular bottle of same.

#MorningPages 08 February 2026
20. Pluviôse honoring the Billhook, Kate Chopin b. 1904, Elizabeth Bishop b. 1911, Prešeren Day, Fornacalia, Sexagesima, Éliphas Lévi b. 1810
#Herb of the Day: Showy Goat’s Beard • Tragopogon pratensis
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Pilot kakuno - clear, F
#ink Venvstas Canna di Fucile
#tarot or #OracleDeck Paracelsus’ Dreams Tarot
 #CardOfTheDay III The Empress - abundance, creativity, desire

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Goat’s BEarp (Tragopogon pratensis). The habits of Goat’s Beard, or as it is often called, John-go-to-bed-at-noon, are indicated by the latter name. It is less known as Joseph’s Flower, which Mr Friend says ‘‘seems to owe its origin to pictures in which the husband of Mary is represented as a long-bearded old man,” but Gerarde gives the Low-Dutch name of his time, “Josephe’s Bloemen,” and says “when these flowers be come to their full maturity and ripeness, they grow into a downy blow-ball, like those of the Dandelion, which is carried away by the winde.” Evelyn praises it, and is indignant with the cunning of the seed-sellers. “Of late they have Italianiz’d the name, and now generally call it Salsifex ... to disguise it, being a very common field herb, growing in most parts of England, would have it thought (with many others) an Exotick.” He does not give the full Latin name, so one cannot tell whether it is our Salsify (Tragopogon porrifolius) that he means, or T. pratensis, the variety once more generally cultivated. The latter seems the likeliest, as its yellow flowers are far more common than the purple ones of salsify.” — Lady Rosalind Northcote, The Book of Herbs, 1903. Below the text is a card with a anatomical illustrations with quotes from Paracelsus in very small print; a clear plastic fountain pen; a swatch gun metal ink; & a hexagonal box of same.

#MorningPages 07 February 2026
19. Pluviôse honoring Lungwort, Berta Bojetu b. 1946, Fornacalia
#Herb of the Day: Roundleaved Sowbread • Cyclamen coum
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Conklin Herringbone Signature, F
#ink Diamine Sugar Snap
#tarot or #OracleDeck Hedgewitch Botanical Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay Foxglove • Digitalis purpurea - connection

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “S. Borovnik states that the authors who wrote from the late 1970s onwards ‘depict various forms of modern female dependence in relation to the family, social status and biological nature. Some write about the limitation of women’s freedom, both personal as well as political, even though on the declarative level, the state wants to convey to them that they are free and equal’. The novels Filio ni doma [Filio Isn’t Home, 1990] and Ptičja hiša [The Birdhouse, 1995] by Berta Bojetu (1946–1997) present a special and artistically perfected response to the limitation of female freedom in which ‘the human obsession with creating differences according to gender and social position has become intense to the extreme’. Bojetu also allows a woman ‘to tell a remarkably sincere tale even about the most taboo topics, and especially about her own female experiencing of relationships (affair or affairs, contacts or meetings) with a man (or men)’. Gender identity in both novels can also be understood as fluid.” — Katja Mihurko Poniž, “The Reflections of Feminist Ideas in Novels and Short Stories by Slovenian Women Writers”, 2015. Below the text is a card with a botanical illustration of a foxglove plant with a few purple flowers colored in; a chiseled, silver-tone fountain pen; a swatch pea green ink with heavy silver shimmer; and a small square bottle of same.

#MorningPages 06 February 2026
18. Pluviôse honoring the Yew, Fornacalia
#Herb of the Day: Butcher’s Broom • Ruscus aculeatus & Blue Hyacinth • Campanula rotundeflora
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Jinhao 80 - green/gold, EF
#ink Colorverse Apollon
#tarot or #OracleDeck Urban Crow Oracle
 #CardOfTheDay 33 Night - focus on rest, sleep hygiene

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “Similarly the later saints had particular flowers dedicated to their memory; and, indeed, a complete catalogue of flowers has been compiled—one for each day in the year—the flower in many cases having been selected because it flowered on the festival of that saint. Thus the common bean was dedicated to St. Ignatius, and the blue hyacinth to St. Dorothy, while to St. Hilary the barren strawberry has been assigned. St. Anne is associated with the camomile, and St. Margaret with the Virginian dragon's head. Then there is St. Anthony's turnips and St. Barbara's cress—the "Saints' Fliral Directory," in "Hone's Every-Day Book," giving a fuller and more extensive list. But the illustrations we have already given are sufficient to show how fully the names of the saints have been perpetuated by so many of our well-known plants not only being dedicated to, but named after them, a fact which is perhaps more abundantly the case on the Continent. Then, as it has been remarked, flowers have virtually become the timepieces of our religious calendar.” — T. F. Thiselton Dyer, The Folk-Lore of Plants, 1889. Below the text is a card with an illustration of a tree full of sleeping crows with th city beyond under a full yellow moon; a dark green fountain pen; a swatch mustard gold ink; and a teardrop-shaped bottle of same.

#MorningPages 05 February 2026
17. Pluviôse honoring Lichen, St. Agatha, Millicent Todd Bingham b. 1880, Fornacalia, Nones
#Herb of the Day: Bittersweet • Solanum dulcamara
 #Notebook Chronicle Go-To w/ Mohawk paper, dotted & Col-o-ring swatch booklet
#FountainPen Kaweco Sport - green, F
#ink Fountain Pen Revolution Gilded Ivy
#tarot or #OracleDeck Wild Medicine Herbal Deck
 #CardOfTheDay Cayenne • Capsicum annuum - protection

Open notebook with handwritten text from the post at the top of the page with additional text: “As to the lichens or liverworts, they are not of less use for many of them afford a beautifull dye, e. g. the roccella yields a most valuable red color, to which purpose the lichen tartareus serves as a succedaneum. The lichenes stygius, onuphalodes, etc, afford also a red dye, and the lichenes croceus, vulpinus a good yellow. There is no doubt, but that many colors in process of time may be obtained from this kind of plants. If we consider the vertues of the lichenes or liverworts upon animate bodies taken internally, they are not inconsiderable. The lichen vulpinus is a deadly poifon to wolves. It. The lichen pyxidatus, or cup-moss, is efficacious in the hooping cough. The lichen jubatus or rock-hair in exulcerations of the skin. The lichen omphalodes in stopping hæmorrhages. The lichen aphthofus in thrushes, and against worms. The lichen caninus or ash-colored ground liverwort in the hydrophia and madness. The lichen pulmonarius, or lungwort, is found to be good in consumptions.” — Ben Stillingfleet, Miscellaneous tracts Relating To Natural History, Hubandry, and Physick, to which is added the Calendar of Flora, 1762. Below the text is a card with a splotchy watercolor illustration of a ripe cayenne on a sprig of plant; a dark green pocket fountain pen; a swatch of dark green ink with gold shimmer; and a cylindrical bottle of same.

Wild Rosemary also known as Labrador used to make tea. Working for the Indigenous Diabetes Health Council, IDHC, again. This piece is just a part of a larger one.

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#plants #plantbased #plant #wildrosemary #labradortea #tea #diabetes #health #healthyliving #herb #herbal #holistichealth #holistic #flower #flowers #floral #SharonCummingsArt #wildflowers #wildflower #Canadian #canada