Ice Amour

Soft snow and an almost completely iced over Anthony Creek. 

The weather in southern West Virginia is freezing chill bone rattling cold. I do not like being cold. My bones ache and send stressed messages to the rest of my body to hurry and get warm. I take frequent warming lavender and orange scented baths to appease my grumbling bones.
Last weekend I bundled myself in long johns, t-shits, sweaters, clunky winter boots, wooly socks, two scarves, mittens and a very warm knit hat and braved the winter weather and went for a hike. I enjoy hiking this very easy trail in the Big Draft Wilderness area of Monongahela National Forest. I hike and photograph the trail all year long. The area is more than lovely, it is a slice of natures love pie.
I had been contemplating my thoughts about winter, ice, cold and water. What message was I sending to myself and others? When water is NOT frozen and cold I know I send unconscious thoughts of joy, love and happiness to the water that surrounds me. I thought about Dr Marsaru Emoto work with water and how water is connected to our individual and collective consciousness.

I try to think positive thoughts, believing my energy and the way I speak affects the water flowing through and nourishing me. Water is everywhere. Water is in the air, our food, our breath, rivers, our bodies, oceans, glaciers, tiny mountain streams and in our drinking glasses.

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interstitial, gastrointestinal, cerebrospinal, 

peritoneal, ocular 

I noticed that during the winter my thoughts and comments are negatively directed at all the frozen water giving me chills. I decided to take a winter walk to appreciate winter and photograph the beauty of frozen water. I wanted to change my relationship to snow flakes, icy crystals, snjor, complex hexagonal patterns, nieve blanco, snow, powder snow, slush, snow drifts and blankets of snow.

Anthony Creek with a warm blanket of protective snow.

Everything in life can be nourishing. 

Everything can bless us, but we've got to be there for the blessing to occur. 

Being present with quality is a decision we are invited to make each day.

-- MacRina Wiederkehr

Everything in life can be nourishing...even cold water, ice, snow and a blustery cold breezes. I am choosing to change my thoughts and remember the befits of the cold frozen landscape of winter. The snow insulates the soil, recharges ground water aquifers, cultivates magic, possibilities, and inner child wonder.

Rhododendron bushes with magical buds that will bloom in the spring.
The magic of snow is the possibilities brewing under its protective decorative frosting.  

Crystal clear water moving through the ice creating paths and patterns.

Closer to Blue Bend the water changed to a greenish color adding a warmish glow. The color is an interesting hue next to the stark white, gray and blueish ice and chilly snow. 


















The relationship that I have with water is important to me since I use water in my spiritual practice. My wintery hike was not just fun but a way for me to realign my thoughts to be positive instead of negative or complaining about frozen water. Kala is an important water transformation ritual that is a corner stone of Feri practice. Into the water I send my inner fears, shame and guilt. My energetic blue eye and breaths transforms the water into love. I drink in love, healing energy and life, sending nourishing radiant light to God Soul which continues the transformation process into grace.

Who is this flower above me?

 What is the work of this God? 

I would know myself and all my parts.

So Mote it Be.

 

Frozen love

 

My dog a white Lab was named by my middle son, is Dumbledore (or affectionately Bumble Dumble) loved the snowy blowy winter walk. He ran, jumped, tasted and rolled around in the snow giving me lots of warm hearten joy. 

I took a fun photo of me wearing my hand spun knit, very warm hat that is slightly too big with my two scarves. Yes, my nose is Rudolph red cold but my smile is warm enough to melt the snow!