Durian Fruit, vintage botanical illustration circa 1815. This beautiful fruit is renowned for it's strong aroma and unique flavor profile. I haven't been brave enough to try it yet.
Get ready to explore the breathtaking beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2024! This stunning calendar by Beautiful Sun Photography will bring a new adventure each month and a chance to immerse yourself in nature's wonders. Don't miss out on this opportunity to bring the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains into your home!
Small businesses thread!
Focus: gift ideas for the holidays!
Tag a creator from Mastodon or link to the website of a small business you love. Say why you love it and reblog for others to see!
If you're a small business owner, link to your site and say a few words on why you love doing what you do!
Reblog to support small businesses ❤️
I'll reblog all small businesses replying ✨
Stone farm house in The Cotswolds, England. Photography + digital art. One of the best parts of my trip to London was a day excursion into The Cotswolds. FYI, Wolds = gentle hills. Cots = sheep enclosures.
This is the view from under the Mackinac Bridge. The "Mighty Mac" is a suspension bridge that links Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsula. It spans the Straits of Mackinac, a body of water that connects two of the Great Lakes - Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The Bridge opened in 1957.
How about some colorful red tulips to brighten up your Monday? (Part of my collection of artwork that hopefully looks like stained glass...not real stained glass!)
I love exploring the Blue Ridge Parkway during autumn to witness the breathtaking colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Check out my website to find stunning prints and more, allowing you to bring the beauty of autumn into your home!
Alright dear ones, it's time to make a little announcement.
For anyone reading this without context, let me provide some:
My partner & I own Rancho de la Libertad: a regenerative agricultural project and spiritual & artistic sanctuary in the high desert. We host ceremony here, provide a landing space to travelers interested in what we're doing, I provide ritual tattooing to those who need it, and we're doing the slow work of regeneration of soil and moving to turn back the ecological desecration that's occurred here in the last 150 years since the settler & gold rushes.
But it's in trouble. We're poised to lose our primary income stream soon, and this means that we won't be able to carry the current mortgage on our house. We're looking at purchasing instead a plot of vacant land between 40 and 60 acres and living in tipis, completely off grid. This positions us actually better for a few different kinds of opportunities. We can expand our regeneration efforts, live more sustainably, eliminate our energy costs (currently a huge part of our monthly bills), provide more living spaces for less money for travelers & residents, and have animals that we don't have the space for here, like horses & cattle.
Losing Rancho de la Libertad wouldn't just be devastating for our family, but for the artists & wanderers that we routinely host here for ceremonies, stargazing events, tattooing rites, and more generally so that they have the space to escape the city and have physical space in which to create and rest.
With that being said, we don't want anything for nothing. I recently (as you all know) opened up a ko-fi store, and am going to be releasing an Etsy store in the next 24 hours as well. We will be using our collective creative skills to craft meaningful spiritual objects in an effort to try to begin an alternate revenue stream.
I additionally will be posting a goal on ko-fi to crowdfund land and get us started. If I've held space for you, provided a beneficial meditation, or if you've stopped by the ranch and you have 5 dollars to spare, please consider if we're worth some of your support.
I will still make a point to not turn this into just a sales channel: I don't aim to trade this beautiful community I've found for sales. Occasionally you'll see shop updates or discounts from me, but otherwise the rest of what I share will be the same.
And for fun, I've opened up a discount on my ko-fi shop from now until the Winter Solstice.