#spruce tea

[thevibrantcateye]

Spruce Tips Tea Prep by @thevibrantcateye

[hippyelfchick]

I did it!!! I made a tea that tastes like the woods.  Featuring wild-havested spruce and fir needles from a friend in NH, hand washed and oven dried by me and carefully crunched to release all their piney essence, mixed with green rooibos, calendula flowers and a touch of lapsang souchong.  Earthy, green, calming, just the tiniest bit smoky.  Tastes like the silence in the forest and pine needles crunching under your shoes.  Perfect balm for the heartsick city-dwelling Pagan (like me.)  I’m excited about this one.

(Not suitable for pregnant women or anyone with an allergy to conifers.)

Coming soon to Hippy Elf Chick on Etsy :)

[11arcticbutterflies]

Postcard from Under the Midnight Sun

Postcard from Under the Midnight Sun

I’m back in Fairbanks and life is bright! This morning, by 3:12, the sun was already pinking the sky into bacon strips, and tonight our Interior Alaskan orb won’t even think of setting until 12:28 a.m., tomorrow. That’s about 21 hours and 16 minutes of daylight, although the darkness we associate with night in the Pacific Northwest doesn’t exist here in the summer since the sun barely dips below…

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Talking Trash, MOOSEquitoes and Spruce Tip Tea

Talking Trash, MOOSEquitoes and Spruce Tip Tea

Talking Trash, MOOSEquitoes and Spruce Tip Tea

There are strange things done in the midnight sun… Robert Service, from “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

Fairbanks, Alaska has whacky weather! Two days ago it was 72 degrees out on the Chena Marina where we’re staying for a month. The sky was robin egg blue, bright, poofy-clouded and beautiful right up until about 11 p.m. when the sun decided to pack it…

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