Conservation | Dreamwalker's Sanctuary

Nature does Her Thing.

24 Aug 2015 132 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Grow Your Own, Hobbies, Proverbs and Quotes., Self Sufficiency Tags: Allotment, Conservation, Environment., Flowers, Garden, Grow your own, love, Self Sufficiency, transformation.

“What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more,
to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks
where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes,
or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that
tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness! “

Helen Keller

Remember last Autumn when the old compost heap on the allotment looked like this?

At the Back of the shed the old rubbish heap is going to be levelled. This is where we intend to grow our Butternut squash next year. As the allotment next to us just put his squash on old soil and left them.. They were 3 sizes bigger than ours.. So here they will have room to spread out to their hearts content :-)

Then Hubby got to work and started to dig. First digging the rectangle bed out which I was going to set flowers in and my apple trees in.

He then dug out the compost heap and levelled it using the old stone boarders from our front garden.

If I had wanted these nasturtiums to grow through the top of this broken old fire onion chimney they most likely wouldn’t have.. But just look at the transformation of the old compost heap.. You now see the new overflowing compost heap contained behind the abundant Squashes and Courgettes.

Well now it looks like this.

Some times you just have to let Nature do her Thing.

This is the flower bed to the left which you saw in the strip of earth in the top photo

The view from the top nearest the shed.

Gladioli’s

Dahlia Cacti variety

Orange White tip Dahlia

All the above flowers are within that bed.

Along with these

Antirrhinums or Snap Dragons

Snap dragons

Not to mention the sweetpeas we have had in abundance

Sweetpeas Old fashioned mix

Also more flowers within the Allotments

Sunflowers and Marigolds and Hubby weeding

Flowers and Leeks, and Beetroot.

Enjoy all that Nature offers you.

Look after and care for each other.

And remember the Life Force that runs through All things..

Love and Blessings for a Wonderful Week

~Sue~

People Power~ Making a Difference

17 Aug 2015 43 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Earth Changes, News and politics, Organizations Tags: 350.org, Awaken, Caring, Coal Mines, Conservation, Energy, Enlightenment, Environment., Fossil Fuels, Open casting, open-pit lignite mines., Protests, Renewable Energy, Unity

Following up from my last post The Future~ Standing as One with Nature today a success story from Germany over stopping some open cast mining for fossil fuels.. All be it will be temporary.

While I admire Germany for a program for phasing out its nuclear plants after the Fukushima nuclear disaster by 2022. Germany has a good record for renewable energy and is investing more in solar and wind . But during this transition they are continuing cutting great swathes of land in open mining for fossil fuels using Brown Coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuel,.. More can be found here about how Brown coal wins a reprieve in Germany’s transition to a green future

In the mean time well done to this group of people who led the way in showing some People Power in Action saying enough is enough..

In my Email box this morning came this Newsletter

Dear friends,

Today over 1,500 people woke up with reflections of a momentous and emotional weekend. On Saturday over a thousand people — with the support of hundreds more — entered the Garweiler open-pit coal mine in Germany and stopped the work of the world’s biggest diggers in their tracks.

You can watch the success here.

It wasn’t an easy task, but we can be proud of the courage of activists, organisers and support structures that made this happen. The swell of solidarity that came in from around the world showed us that we are not in this fight alone and meant a lot to the people who participated.

Over the coming weeks there will be more reflections, photos and stories coming in, and we hope we can count on you to share the story so the world knows what our movement is building.

We said “Ende Gelände – Here and No Further!” and we succeeded.

Thanks so much for your support – it means a lot to many people,

Emma on behalf 350.org

I hope you will feel free to share.

Love and Blessings

~Sue~

Sources:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/07/brown-coal-wins-a-reprieve-in-germanys-transition-to-a-green-future

http://350.org/ende-gelande-wrap-up/?akid=7274.1384779.0wN5i0&rd=1&t=1

http://350.org/

Come with me on a Journey..

22 Jul 2015 96 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Poems Tags: Conservation, Earth Mother, Environment., Garden, Mountains, Nature, Peace, poems, Rainbow, thoughts

Nature’s Colours

Colours are all around us, but do we really see.

We take every thing for granted, and act so seriously

Have you ever stopped to think, if the world was black and white.

Close your eyes for a minute think! What if you had no sight?

Never to see a tree full with shades of green.

Never to know the blues of skies and ocean seas.

Come with me on a journey, back to nature and discover

Open your eyes see afresh full of colour.

Collecting sacks of yellow is our busy bumblebee.

Making lots of honey in his hide amongst the trees.

Surrounded by the flowers, whose colours are so bold?

Colours of a rainbow, now there’s your pot of gold.

Rose red, primrose yellow, oranges and apples green.

Tell me, who created all these lovely scenes.

Dazzling bright, smoothly blending, colours of the spectrum.

Every colour you can imagine is Gods almighty emblem.

Eagles circling with effortless ease, around a snow capped mountain

Reflecting sunlight upon a lake. Cascading like a fountain.

Wildlife in our forests before they cut the trees,

Tiger, Bear, and Panda and swinging Chimpanzees

Icecaps snowy beauty of Seal and Polar Bear,

Icebergs that comes crashing in the warming sunny glare.

The fish deep in the ocean, the salmon in the stream.

All full of beauty, much better than any dream.

So when you next open up your eyes.

Look and SEE you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

At the beauty, which surrounds us, and it’s absolutely free.

For which I pray to thank our Lord, most gratefully.

I Have more colours for you Here in Dreamwalker’s Garden of Life

Photo Source: Photobucket.

Picture Update~ Grow your Own

11 Jul 2015 109 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Grow Your Own, Hobbies, Self Sufficiency Tags: Allotment, Conservation, Dahlias, Environment., Garden, Grow your own, Knitting, Loganberries, Nature, Self Sufficiency, Vegetables

Hello my patient fellow bloggers.. I am currently over this weekend working my way around to those who have left me such thoughtful responses over the last few weeks.. As I endeavour to catch up with many of your posts..

How is your Summer going?

Mine has been very productive as well as restful in-between gardening, I have been resting, reading, oh and I finished off a knitting project also. And of course I have been keeping my eye on the ball in Wimbledon as the Tennis Season is in full swing.

I am learning to self Nurture!

I knitted this little Bolero too which is for a 3 to 6 mth old. It didn’t take long to make.

You can find out more of what I have been up to when you click this next photo below of some of my harvest and other crops that are growing.

It will take you to Dreamwalker’s Garden

Harvesting Dinner

Enjoy your weekend

And take care of each other

Love and Blessings

~Sue~

One Potato ~ Two Potato

27 Jun 2015 104 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Grow Your Own, Self Sufficiency Tags: Allotment, Conservation, Environment., Garden, Gardening, Grow your own, Mouse, Nature, Potatoes, Self Sufficiency, Vegetables

My Granddaughter showing the first lifted New Potatoes

I Promised I would update you on how the Allotments were growing.. All is coming along nicely. And as you can see, one little girl was delighted to collect the first dug new potatoes and bag them for dinner.

Brassica Family and Dwarf beans. Curly Kale.

Everything is growing well now.. its just a matter of keeping the weeds down

More photos can be found in the gallery Here on the Update of what else is growing in Dreamwalker’s Garden update.

Oh and remember our little friend who came to visit and then disappeared some time ago.. Well he was back today. I managed to sneak up on him the second time.. The first time I saw him I walked right under the hanging nut feeder this morning as its positioned under an arch of trees where he was doing his balancing act .. I glanced up and I do not know who jumped first, me or the mouse.. As he jumped back into the conifer hedge. 🙂 I waited a while and he came out again. This time I crept up and he tolerated me and I snapped this picture until I got too close then he disappeared again into the hedge.

He was as curious about me as I was about him. My little friend is back

Have a wonderful weekend all of you.

Blessings

Sue

Busy as a Bee and following your Inner Voice.

15 May 2015 90 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Grow Your Own, Health and wellness, Self Sufficiency Tags: Allotments, Conservation, Earth Mother, Environment., Gardening, Grow your own, meditation, Nature, Peace, poems, Self Sufficiency, thoughts

I am going to let the pictures tell their own story of what I have been up to this week..

Well I have been helping hubby out hoeing the allotments and setting more veggies… I also decided that as I post lots of updates about our gardening this time of year with many photo’s and recipes which are rapidly filling up Dreamwalker’s space, I decided I would create a new blog entitled Dreamwalker’s Garden.. HERE is where you can find all the picture updates of the allotments, only one post so far, and I will direct followers for future updates.

So what else has kept me busy?

Well as you can see I set too and made a few pots of Blackberry and Apple Jam.. We had a bumper crops last year of Blackberries which we froze and I need to be using and making space in the freezer. I made Jam in the Autumn, and gave most of the pots of jam away. These will end up as being gifted.

Also some Blackberry Muffins.. I hope to add this new recipe I tried out today to my recipe list on my Garden Blog soon.

I hope if you have time over your own weekend to relax you take some time out to sit within your own thought space, and Listen to that Inner Voice.. I am sure if you listen well it will speak right on back to you.

Below are a few pictures of my home garden. Enjoy and I added a link to my Poem The VOICE.

Have a wonderful relaxing weekend all of you… And enjoy my garden gallery.

Blessings Sue .

Please click on each photo to enlarge.

Spring Blossoms

Forget-me-not

Wild Primrose

Contemplation Corner

Quite Corner to still your thoughts

Magnificent Magnolia

Bill and Coo.. Love Life..

Gnome .. Enjoy the Little things in Life!

When the Universe speaks, I Listen! Part One

01 Apr 2015 115 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Grow Your Own, Health and wellness, Hobbies, Uncategorized Tags: Allotment, Conservation, Environment., Garden Sheds, Growing your own, Hand crafts, Hobbies, Knitting, Nature, Planting, Spring Planting

Sometimes the best laid plans are not made by you, but are the direct guidance of the Universe. Have you ever had that feeling where you just know you have to surrender to the flow and see where it takes you?

Well that’s what last week felt like. I had promised my WP friends I would be back to visit them last weekend .However the Universe had other plans.

My own plans were simple ones.. I needed a few days Computer Free to catch up with some unfinished projects.. The first one being a little jacket I made for my Daughter’s Step Daughter’s new baby girl. So technically that makes me a Step Great Gran! My other knitting project I also finished.

This was a cardigan for myself.

Knitted Cardigan

The other projects centred around the allotments and we had already planted seeds in seed trays which were sprouting. But the allotments needed digging which Hubby did, and I set too and helped plant the onion and shallots.

Onions and Shallots planted

Remember this photo from last year where the old rubbish heap and nettle patch was going to be dug up? Below!

At the Back of the shed the old rubbish heap is going to be levelled. This is where we intend to grow our Butternut squash

Well this is what it looks like now on the photo below.

Dug over Rubbish heap

Another job which needed to be done was to paint the sheds with wood preserve. You can see Hubby busy doing this one and I did the other. This shed brings a whole new meaning to Lean-too shed lol, It only houses sticks, wire and cloches and nets etc.

Lean too shed 🙂

Main shed

The next thing was to clear out the old Strawberry Bed of old plants.. We planted new shoots in the autumn .And made a start to clear out the old Strawberry bed. This will then be the new home for some of my flowers for cut flowers.

Old Strawberry bed.

New Strawberry Bed

Below is the view from the main shed. in the foreground the Raspberry, Blueberries, Red and Black currents, Gooseberries, Blackeberries. We still have in the background, Brussels, Purple flowering broccoli and a few Leeks left. And of course a freezer full of goodness..

Long View from shed

In the mean time I wrote a poem in collaboration with Aquileana about Helen of Troy. and emailed her it just before my laptop was set for a scheduled Health Check.. That’s when the Universe thought to have other ideas about my plans..

I mentioned one of my keys was sticking to the computer guy, so the kind man said as it was insured he would send it away.. And So that’s why I have been absent longer than I intended.. But you see the Universe had a plan all along.. And as to that I will reveal in my second part to this post..

Stay tuned!

And its good to be back..

We Are the Light!

16 Jan 2015 77 Comments

by Sue Dreamwalker in Awakening in the Sleepless Zone, Earth Changes, Organizations, Poems, Uncategorized Tags: Awareness, Changes, Children, Climate Change, Conservation, Earth Law, Earth Mother, Environment., Nature, poems, The Children's Climate Crusade, Tolerance, Unity, world

I was listening again to this music and I was reminded of a what I wrote back in 2009, in the form of the poem below, I wrote it on the beach while visiting the ocean I looked on as children played in the sand.

Our Children Learn by example

Lets set them some good foundations to Grow with.

They are our future and our Light in the world… Teach them the ways of Unity, Acceptance, Tolerance, and PEACE..

And allow them to learn about Earth Law, And learn about legal Law..I had drafted this post last evening and as synchronicites conspired, . Today I read Paul’s post on Learning From Dogs . And found on his post a video about The Children’s Climate Crusade

For it will be our children who have to pick up all the mess we adults are leaving behind us.

I hope you find time to go and watch the video posted there.

~~~~~

Let Our Children Grow

I breathe deep breaths of salt sea air

The breeze does blow, playing with my hair

Children’s laugh and play in sand

A moment’s pause, in make-believe land.

As time stands still, I watch unseen

As families join this loving scene

Where sandcastles are built, with children’s smiles

The ocean is clear and smooth for miles