We are heading into Fire Season here in Southwest Florida. How can I tell? In the past two weeks, the day time temperature has hit 80 degrees every day. It is Hot. People are talking about how hot it is. The psychological shift that year-rounders under go, to cope with the extreme heat we know is coming, is underway.
It isn’t Humid yet. (Humidity is the province of Rainy Season.) It is Dry and Windy.
The Yellow Blossom Trees are coming into bloom. {I’ve got to get a good picture of them THIS year! I think I missed them last year…}
And, the Live Oak trees have flowered and dropped their seeds. I call this stuff, ‘oak skree.’ I’ll post a photo of it, in a moment. I gather this stuff in broad daylight and put it into whatever container I have when I see it. Sometimes I gather it in an empty to-go drink cup; this time I gathered it into an empty bag from Wendy’s Drive Through.
I use oak skree ceremoniously, the way some people use Sage, (*) but you have to watch out because oak skree burns FAST. It is not a lazy, meditative smudging tool like Sage is!
(*) see “Uses of Sage,” in the next post.
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