Country Roads | Dec 2013
Macro Monday | Frozen Winter Berries
Winter Wonderland | Winter Solstice
Another fav from December 2013 – Winter Wonderland!
Growing up in a small town, these are the winters I am used to growing up with, tons of snow, so beautiful!
Today, on December 21st, the days begin getting longer. This morning I spent some conscious time with my journal and my oracle cards – the Rose Oracle.
Pulled 3 cards for the end of 2025 and wrote in my current journal. Then shuffled and set the intention to select 12 cards, one for each month for the new year in 2026 and wrote in my journal to begin 2026. Then pulled I felt inspired to simply pull 1 card for the meaning of what 2026 will bring for us… without shuffling again.
HELD
Sureness of the soil. Unseen help. Support. Community.
Card of the day from The Rose Oracle
“Sometimes, Life rips from us what we cling to the most. Or perhaps we cling to it for we can feel the cycles of change coming. Yet in the darkness of our longest, darkest night, we discover that it’s in the empty spaces that we can be reached and held the most. It’s in these that we discover a holding that we didn’t know before. And we discover that what we thought was a tomb is actually a womb.
You’re being called to trust that the Great Mother has got you. To trust in the sureness of Her soil. To trust the process of what’s unfolding and that you’re not going through this alone.“
Frozen Winter Berries
These are some of my oldest and most favourite frozen winter berries photo – from December 2013 shot with my 5DMIII + EF 100mm f2.8 Macro lens – I still have both!
Mama’s Boy
He knows when to pose, he knows the looks, he knows the stance.
He knows me.
He knows when mama is overwhelmed, he loves harder.
He loves his kids with everything in him.
He is full of love, excitement and naps.
He is gentle AF with our parrot, but is confused what a cat is.
He loves his 9pm bedtime, and so do his parents!
He was sent to me to guard my heart.
He loves the snow and is so happy its back!
He is teaching me how to trust again.
He is by my side during my healing.
He loves his routine and we all thrive with it!
He looks like an absolute bad-ass in this pic, but melts for mama!
Navigating Grief Through Intuition and Oracle Cards
I felt inspired on my way home today, an idea came into my mind and suddenly I had a beautiful urge to get home and get outside with my camera. As I stood outside in the snow, with my camera, looking at the trees and snow, I began thinking about it, in a sense getting excited about it how I could take my healing to the next level, to speak from an authentic, strong voice, not afraid to share her vulnerability. Taking my own healing to the next level, respectively.
I leaned into my intuition, should I ask for confirmation, is this something I should do given I have had very mixed emotions. I was guided to my den, I sat down and just allowed myself to be in the flow. I reached for my Palo Santo and lit it, I had 2 oracle card decks out on my desk, I instantly heard not those. I put them on the shelf and asked, which one, as I looked at the deck and knew – The Rose Oracle by Rebecca Campbell.
My brother loved roses, one of the last gifts he also gave was a rose quartz bracelet to our grama.
I began shuffling the deck and a card quickly fell out, Brothers of the Rose.
Brothers of the Rose; Sacred Masculine. Honor. Protection. Support.
Of course, as tears filled my eyes. The right side of my body, has been quite tight, when my husband and I went for an energy treatment a couple weeks ago, he instantly picked up on the fact that I wasn’t breathing properly and that my husband was trying to help balance me. Which wasn’t working, I was very off. So for this card to fall from the deck, Brothers of the Rose and speak of masculine energy… I knew it was a message from him.
An excerpt from the deck guidebook,
“This card could be a sign that you’re being called to work on the sacred masculine energy within you that’s maturing and rising. It could be that you’re being called to work on ancestral healing of the paternal line. It could be an indication that you’re being called to invoke or acknowledge the sacred masculine in those around you. Or it could represent the sacred masculine appearing in your life.
The sacred masculine exists within all of us. They are encircling you so that you can do your sacred work – so that you can be part of the return of the Goddess on this Earth. The rose is their emblem, and they wear it proudly on their hearts.”
The masculine is within the doing, whereas the feminine energy is being.
I welcome this 2026 shift!
Frosty Friday
Going back to my 2017 files for this one, I am working at re-organizing my photos and this one popped up for me!
Magical Macro | Rain Drops
With all the snow out there, as much as I do love it here for Christmas, feeling the blog needed a little uplift with some magical macro and rain drops!
Some girls best friends might be diamonds, however Id take these any day, with my camera in hand of course ;)
Wordless Wednesday
Photo Archive Organization
Since my kids have been young, I have organized my photos by year and month, as they grew this was the optimal way to organize and know where to find age specific photos.
However now having teens, and more time on my hands, I am thinking I need to shift my storage for my photographic art images. I am thinking, I will go through and pull out all images that aren’t family related and pull them into folders so that when I am looking for Macro, but then I also have a lot of macro bee’s… do I separate them within the macro folder for ease?! I have a lot of Landscape, in all seasons. But then if taking photos of our various tours with family and friends, would that cross into some public photos, yes, should they be organized differently?
I am curious, how you all organize your photos on your computer… would you care to share with me?
