Here’s an poem that I wrote for the 2024 Imbolc edition of the Òran Mór Celtic E‐Zine that celebrates the awakening of the year.
Awakening

The adventure goes on …
Here’s an poem that I wrote for the 2024 Imbolc edition of the Òran Mór Celtic E‐Zine that celebrates the awakening of the year.
Here’s some wyrd and wonderful photos of Nature in time for All Hallows’ Eve. Happy trick-or-treating this evening …
This fall the colors of the leaves are absolutely intense, blazing with glory. I just had to share a few pics …
Once upon a time, long, long, ago, there was a Celtic band called Noctiluca. Now, you might say, Noctiluca is not a Celtic name. No, it is not. Unfortunately, no one in the band spoke Gaelic. Noctiluca was the best they could come up with. One of the band members was an oceanographer, and Noctiluca, meaning “night lights” in Latin, is the name of a genus of microscopic phytoplankton that produce bioluminescence at night. Go figure, eh?
Here we are three years later, and I’m updating the map for the permaculture design project at Tir Ceòlmhor.
For Winter is a coming in
And Summers’s gone away-O.
(inverted twist on “Hal an Tow” lyrics by Damh the Bard)
Here’s an article that I wrote for the 2023 Lughnasadh edition of the Òran Mór Celtic E‐Zine that looks into the Scottish legend of John Barleycorn and the traditional songs associated with it.
As we spiral through the cycles of the seasons on our homestead, Lughnasadh comes to us as a time of balance … between sacrifice and blessing, hard work and reward, safety and danger.
After three years of drought, the rains of spring have brought an incredible intensity of life to our homestead… plants flourishing in variegated shades of green, flowers blossoming in profusion, and the bushes bending heavy with fruit. As we work hard to harvest the crop and complete projects before the coming of winter, it is wonderful to stop for a little while and enjoy the great beauty of Nature around us.
The Hawthorn, a tree that displays a prolific splendour of white or pink flowers at the beginning of May, is known by a variety of different names, such as “The May Tree“, “The Beltane Tree“, “The May Blossom“, “The Whitethorn“, “The Quick“, or simply the “May“.