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Cottage Garden Flowers: June in Bloom

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Apricot Foxgloves, Planted to Match the Blush of Baby’s Cheek

 

This is the week of the foxglove, buttercup, peony, iris, pollinator-loving wildflowers, lavender, and the first rose bloom.  The soft, pillowy petals are beloved by all wildlife.  It rains, bathing fuzzy stems in shining dew.  We visit each bloom as it unfurls.  The flowers are helped by glistening insect friends and greet the clouded sun,  “Good morning!”  This is an especially magical time to study and write about the poetry of nature… and of the self.  Our lessons are taken into the garden with a cup of tea and an umbrella.

Sense all around your lovely being.  How do you feel?  What kind of messages are whispering to you?

balance in the dance

Happy Last Days of June!  Love, ~The Botanists at Rose Cottage, Amor Milagre

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant drought-tolerant wildflowers for pollinators

 

With each season, our garden renovation design grows in fuller than the last.  We replaced lawns with perennial flowers and edible organic plant foods.  We made fun pathways to explore under arches of towering stems and sweet blooms.  The low buzzing hum increases, and new winged friends stay a while.

Scatter seeds and wait for your gorgeous surprise!  Life awaits…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Peonies

 

Let other flowers hold up earlier bloomers…they help as they grow…no prop sticks or twine needed!

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant Flowering Trees, Kousa Dogwood

 

Our first sense of the new flowering trees’ beautiful blooms!  Stars!  (Kousa Dogwood)

 

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, David Austin English Rose

 

Sweet as June, an English Rose…heavenly scent…

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Amor Milagre Cottage Garden Design, Plant for Pollinators

 

Planting beds of flowering, fragrant thyme with many pollinator-loving flowers in between is a sustainable way to replace lawns, enjoy your garden, encourage wildlife, and always have healthy organic herbs for the kitchen!  July blooms are coming soon…but we’ll sit and hum with these first…

 

Visit my nature photography and artwork collections to browse more inspiration from our garden.

 

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Synesthesia: Painting & Music

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Atelier Amor Milagre Oil Painting Studio, 2nd layer on Part I of the Library Triptych (Painting In Progress) Non-toxic Paints and FSC Certified Supplies.

 

Painting and music…my cloud of peace…

Synesthesia often feels painful due to our polluted world.  When there is a rare, open, quiet moment I can add some low music to the air and paint the sound energy.  This is a truly beautiful release of expression!  Let go….. and smile…

The homeschool portfolio has been sent in.  The kitchen renovation is wrapping up.  This coming year allows for more painting time.  New artwork and prints will flow into my shop in the coming seasons.  Many new books feature fresh pastel and oil painting illustrations.  The oil originals need some drying time before they ship.  There are many new ideas and sensations to blend, scrape, and brush onto the patient blank canvases.  I’ve been dreaming up stacks of paintings for decades…and now I have my little seasonal painting studio!

How do you love to enjoy your minutes?

*Health Tip for Painters:  Don’t just stretch your canvas…stretch yourself!  Music also helps to remind you to stretch before and after painting.  Dance-painting is needed to reach the span of my larger canvases…and it’s fun!  Sing, release, and have a blast connecting with your soul.

Grateful for these few rainy June days to help clear the wild, smokey air.  Love to all who are affected by the wildfires.

Love, ~Amor Milagre

 

 

 

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New Cottage Kitchen: Remember me…

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Getting things moved in a bit…

 

A small way to remember a Dear One is to keep something they adored near you.

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Love, the Grandmothers

 

Teacups and a purple cow creamer are our usable memory keepsakes.  Baci, Nonna.

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Almost time for tea!

 

The new cottage kitchen shelves are happy to be useful.  Unpacking after decades of being boxed up feels like a sigh…  We’re little Mrs. Tiggywinkles today, washing and making things nice…but just need to find…the iron…  We’re still a bit ruffly…which I do like, too.

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New:  Windows, Curtains, Flooring, Paint, and Baseboards.  Now, where is the box marked ‘Steamer’

 

If your keepsake is broken or lost, your sense memory is still there.  The item was a just a symbol.  Recipes are a great keepsake.  You can remember flavours and scents to take you back into that joyful moment.

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Little flowers and berries trail around on the new kitchen shelves.  Bunnies and pumpkins also live here now.

 

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Bringing out little helpers for the new kitchen.  When all is tidy, time for a hot cacao…

 

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Cosy heavy creams, cacaos, greys, and linens…

 

*Hold Sweet Memories Dear.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Come Back to Nature: Grow Plants Everywhere

Amor Milagre Grow Plants Everywhere, Get Back to Nature

The Earth has been showing symptoms.  We cannot ignore it.  This affects everyone, every plant, every animal, and every drop of water.  We are connected.  What happens there…changes it here.  The land is burning.  She has a high fever.  She has been asking for help. The new smoke adds even more layers of air pollution.  We cannot breathe.  Fresh air?  Where?  There is nowhere left to escape to.  People are fleeing all kinds of danger.  Elsewhere, her cries flood.  More symptoms show.  This trauma reaches everyone.  The Earth is sick.  Humans inflicted this pain.  Let Earth heal, and all of us with her.  Get back to Nature.  Grow plants everywhere.  Green will burst out of the concrete cracks, if you let them.  This is not merely something to get through, but our world needs lasting, intensive healing.  Stop polluting.  Plants grow up by themselves, so let them be.  They are here for a vital reason.  We were never meant to live without Nature.  We need to live on her, with her, because we cannot live without her.  There are no weeds.  Lawns can easily be replaced with perennial flowers.  Let fields be wild and native, where trees can grow old, and they may be our steady guide.  Oxygen needs to be abundant, not a rare luxury when it’s too late.  Don’t cut nature down.  Encourage her to be herself and flourish.  She feeds us.  Plants grow all together.  They share a language.  We can learn this.  Plants need one another, just as we need them to live.

Redesign it all.  Design for green movement. Sway in the wind.  Plant healing seeds today.  They will grow.

Live Peace. Begin the Plant Era…once again.  Love, Amor Milagre

 

 

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Sugar-Free Vegan Plant-Based Diet

Amor Milagre Sugar- Free Vegan Plant-based Diet

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Sugar-Free Vegan Plant-Based Diet

When you stop eating grains of sugar, tastebuds can truly taste flavours of natural foods.  The body does not have to work so hard to combat the pollution that sugar causes and you are aware of healthy portions.  Food tastes better because it tastes like itself.  It took so much energy to grow…why would you bury it in sugar?  Prevent illnesses, like diabetes, and live a delicious healthy life with this one easy step.  Be free of addictions.  Begin a baby’s life with true health.  Give your body peace.

Less is more.  Less/no processed sugar means less: preparation time, shopping, storage, dirty dishes, ants, money, energy, medicine, pain, inflammation, illness, doctor’s visits, addiction, and conflict.  Less/no processed sugar gives you MORE time, energy, money, space, confidence, wellness, and health to enjoy your life!

Transition into health.  Grow and eat whole, organic, non-GMO, plant foods.  Go vegan for peace.

Love to All,

~Amor Milagre