Backcountry Almanac
May 1, 2008
Creare Diem!
Backcountry Almanac
April 1, 2008
Creare Diem!
Backcountry Almanac
March 1, 2008
Tree: willow Flower: delphinium Color: violet Stone: aquamarine Metal: tin
Gender equality month: time to honor both genders
Backcountry Almanac
February 1, 2008
Flower: Violet Stone: Amethyst Tree: Ash Herb: Balm of Gilead
Focus: purification, reconciliation, peacemaking
Backcountry Almanac
January 5, 2008
Tree: Alder Gem: Garnet Flower: Filaree
Backcountry Almanac
December 1, 2007
Stone: turquoise
Tree: Holly
Colors: purple/ deep blue
Goddess Vesta, guardian of December // Universal Human Rights month
Backcountry Almanac
November 1, 2007
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.
Backcountry Almanac
October 9, 2007
You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty. – Jessica Mitford
Month dedicated to Fides – goddess of faithfulness Pima: the month of dry grass
Backcountry Almanac
September 1, 2007
Month dedicated to goddess Pomona/ Demeter
Time of the Fruit harvest
Stone: chrysolite-antidote to madness
Tree: grape Vine
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end” – Semisonic
Backcountry Almanac
August 1, 2007
Time of fruition and harvest Manifestation
Tree: Mesquite
Flower: Morning Glory
Gem: Peridot