#communelife

[ignitelimelight]

Of course my first post on my (newly remade) witch Instagram is of my familiar, happily asleep in our new home in the middle of the woods. I've been itching to share about this place, but hadn't yet captured the full beauty of it all. Then the cat flopped down and took a nap, and that is really what this place is all about. - - - #catsofinstagram #familiars #oregonwitches #witchesoforegon #witchesofinstagram #witchblr #leisurelandchronicles #communelife (at Deadwood, Oregon)

[artsydazeysdiary]

2020 is teaching me patience.

My plans are not the universes plans,

and there is something bigger in store for us.

7.15.20

[ignitelimelight]

The fog creeps in silently over the river, and the trees, with their skeletal arms bared towards heaven, appear as devoted worshipers longing for the sun-goddess who has since abandoned them. ☁ 🌲 ☁ Some days this forest feels old and moody and I feel the urge to write poetically. I am slowly turning into a true witch in the woods. Send warm socks. ☁ 🌲 ☁ #december #decemberinthewoods #winterinthewoods #communelife #seasonalaffectivedisorder #fuckitscold #forest #folkwitchcraft #devotionalpoetry #freyjadevotee #freyadevotee #freyja #freya #intentionalcommunity #jul #leisurelandchronicles #mist #fog #mistytrees #foggy #norsewitchcraft #nature #Oregon #oregonwitches #oregonforest #oregonwoods #river #rurallife #siuslawnationalforest #siuslawriver #upg #witchcraft #witchartist #witch #witchesoforegon #winter #yuletide #yule #yul (at Deadwood, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrQlVDcnGnG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8wslb24o2bw5

[ignitelimelight]

I've discovered the joy of walking down rarely used train tracks in the middle of the woods. Plodding along in my hiking boots looking for curious areas in the forest and crossing bridges by stepping on old, dense wood and looking down to see rushing water has become a way to ground me. Something about the serene stillness combined with the rushing power of the river below replenishes me. The bridges have year markers from as early as 1913, built when the Pacific Northwest was full of logging towns. Logging towns haven't changed a whole lot since then, being built on the need for community and the struggle with the elements. - - - #communelife #rurallife #river #walkingdownthetraintracks #rapids #nature #industrial #oregon #siuslawriver #siuslawnationalforest #intentionalcommunity #traintracks (at Deadwood, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqTUXqZHJfG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jqwi4eck6mo7

[ignitelimelight]

Fall has driven me indoors and under the covers with its finger-stiffening cold. Fall in the middle of the woods is beautiful and challenging. The trees change color, exposing their wiggly branches. The fish are swimming upstream, and the air smells of woodsmoke. Music is more moody and I can feel the distance between now and times long past shorten as the veil thins. Fall has challenges of keeping warm, getting things done while there is still light, and staying dry. It also brings an odd amount of activity as everyone realizes that winter is indeed coming and it's going to be the coldest I've ever experienced. * * Frankly, I'm already exhausted. I've been pushing myself to get my shit together or else wind up freezing, but going from zero to sixty in a day has made me stall out. I've been stuck in my cabin for three days now, and boy oh boy do I wish I had moved firewood down before the mental illness kicked in. I made it two weeks, a new record, before breaking down. Let's hope I feel better before Samhain, it's the first time I'll be able to have a bonfire and a hearthfire. Meanwhile, I'll be painting witchy art and insulating the crap out of my house. - - #communelife #rurallife #fallinthewoods #leisurelandchronicles #autumninthewoods #fuckitscold #oregonwitches #oregon #witchesoforegon #trees #pinetree #oregonwoods (at Deadwood, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpXmKFNnfv6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ysd5s7ol0won

[ignitelimelight]

While sick in bed, I'm remembering the 30-50-80 party we had this year in honor of several birthdays we had at Leisureland. There was live music with Steel Wool and the Raventones playing, a huge bonfire, more quesadillas than I could have imagined Ivan making, an acrobatics hoop (photos will never enter the internet, dangling creates some meme worthy photos), and axes. This game here is the Axe Game, where you attempt to drive a nail flush using the blade of an axe. First one flush wins. No, it's probably not safe, but it's safer than you would expect. These axes have been used as throwing axes and for this game, so they were pretty dull already. - - #axes #communelife #leisurelandchronicles #axe #log #logchopping #oregonwitches #oregon #witchesoforegon https://www.instagram.com/p/BocaVNxHcPa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wy6bksdqecpx

[ignitelimelight]

Our log piles are starting to spring up everywhere with the shed being full already. We still need more, with my house being poorly (or non-existently) insulated. - - #logs #oregonwitches #communelife #witchesoforegon (at Deadwood, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoU2cxMHDn7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gk2etw3arrug

[makangani]