Hierodula Salomonis, Aka, The “Jade Mantis”

Look at this baby I found at the gas station 🥺

She’s a gorgeous Rosy Maple Moth (dryocampa rubicunda) and most likely a female due to the lack of fluffy antennae that males use for sensing pheromones

Tincture of Alehoof

Glechoma hederacea, or Ground Ivy (called Alehoof because it was used in beermaking before hops) Is, among many other things, an astringent herb. This is my recipe/experiment for making a toner for the skin using it.

Gathering

Ground ivy grows everywhere as a weed in temperate parts of Europe and America

Preparation

Wash your plants and remove dead, dirty, and damaged parts (right into the compost)

Roughly chop, adding to a jar as you go

Finally, add ethyl alcohol or vodka (70% alcohol or higher is best) to your jar leaving little room, cover, label, and wait a few days. After the jar is very dark in color, strain out your plant matter into another jar, and you should be left with a jar of your tincture!

I’ve been shadow banned for awhile now 😔Please tumblr Im sorry for being too sexy I can’t help it. I just want to be able to reply on posts again 😭😭😭

Having fun with silly little polls lol

How can people be comfortable with themselves when they run companies with the purpose of ripping up land- especially land that shouldn’t have this access to?

Huffpost article about the fight for Oak Flat

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“source?” divine intuition, gut instinct, and cryptic symbolism from my dreams

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Give yourself a big hug for making it through this year.

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15th century Italian manuscript detail of Gothic initial and lower border. (x)