Borage

Beautiful Borage

Borago officinalis, also known as a starflower, is an annual herb, native to the Mediterranean region. Traditionally, herbalists use borage tea as a tonic that can speed healing, reduce stress, relieve fevers, promote lactation, soothe digestive issues, and ease throat and chest infections. Today, fresh borage leaves and blossoms are found in topical herbal medicines, because of the presence of high levels of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), which is effective in treating common skin irritations, such as psoriasis, that result from a lack of essential fatty acids. The oil extracted from borage seeds is one of the richest natural sources of GLA, and ingesting it daily can significantly improve skin conditions. You can use chopped fresh leaves to make a poultice for skin irritations, or, for sore throats, create an infusion and gargle it. Borage attracts helpful pollinators, deter pests, and pulls nutrients into your top soil. The flowers are delicious eaten raw in salads, frozen into ice cubes, and candied as decorations for cakes. You can crush and steep the fresh leaves to make a refreshing summertime tea.
This photo makes me wish I was a fairy or a bee and I could get right in there.

Borage With A Bee

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Horses & Ponys

Horses Looking My Way

In Front Of One Of My Favorite Barns.

Haflinger Horses Amongst Wildflowers

Haflingers are known for their distinctive chestnut coloring and flaxen mane and tail, and originated in the Tyrolean Mountains, which run between Italy and what is Austria, today.

Horses Amongst Wildflowers

Horses Enjoying Autumn

Horses In Monkton

Horses Enjoying Autumn Light

Horses With A View Of Camels Hump

Horses With A View Of Camels Hump

Horses With A View Of Camels Hump

White Horse Perfection

White Horse With A View Of Camels Hump

Life On The Sweet Farm.
Haflinger horses enjoying the view.

Horse Love

Baby Pony & Mom

A Sweet Adorable Pony In Front Of A Lovely Stone House

Carolina laying on Jackson's back after uncle Matt put her up there, while Reba & Jackson are taking a rest and snack break during sugaring. So cute and not an experience I ever had as a little girl.

Sugaring the old fashioned way 

at the Russell Family Sugarhouse. Matt takes Jackson & Reba out to collect sap while sugaring. This Sugar House is over 150 years old. The tin on the roof of the older section on the right, was given to farmers and sugarers by the local newspaper when they were done using them for printing, many years ago.

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Art Hop 2024

Fun With Bubbles At The South End Art Hop 2024, Burlington, Vt.

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Head In The Clouds

Head In The Clouds

In Fairfax, Vermont

Clouds Over Lake Champlain

Clouds Over Lake Champlain

Clouds Over Indian Brook Reservoir

Clouds Over The Green Mountains

Mackerel Sky
is a term for clouds made up of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying an undulating, rippling pattern similar in appearance to fish scales.

Clouds Over Charlotte

A Lovely Dramatic View in Fletcher

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Fireflies

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Burdock

Burdock

(the plant with the purple flowers in the foreground, is Heal-all)

Burdock is a large, robust plant, easily recognized by her bristled purple flower heads and broad, ruffled leaves. The leaves can be huge, up to 2 feet long and 1 foot wide. They remind some people of rhubarb plants, but unlike rhubarb’s leaves, burdock leaves have a felt-y, fuzzy texture and are whitish on the undersides. The margins of the leaves are wavy, almost ruffled. Burdock is a biennial, producing a massive rosette of leaves in the first year, then completing its life cycle by flowering (large, purple thistle-like flowers) and making burdock seed in the second year. The deeply excavating taproot is edible during the first year of growth.This wild weed lives two years, producing a 4 - 5 foot tall flower stalk during its second summer. The flowers turn to the seed burs that give the plant its name. The burs, with their hooked tips, are said to be the inspiration for Velcro. 

Fresh burdock root is delicious in soup or stew. Prepare it as you would carrots and add it to cooked dishes. Harvest the long root in fall and spring, or in the winter if your ground doesn’t freeze and you can find the plant after its leaves have died down. The leaf may be picked as needed for poulticing or tea as soon as it reaches sufficient size. Moderate harvest of the leaves will not deter root development. The immature flower stalks are another excellent vegetable this common plant provides. Similar to the Italian vegetable cardoon, burdock stalks should be harvested before the plants flower, which is usually in mid to late spring.

Burdock is a popular herbal medicine that can help regenerate liver cells, is a blood cleanser, diuretic, a topical remedy for skin problems such as eczema, acne, and psoriasis, and inhibits cancer.

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Chickens

 

Chickens Checking Me Out. I think they were hoping it was time for a snack.

This photo was Awarded Photo of the Day, on Capture My Vermont, for November 29, 2017.

Lovely Hens

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