Of storms and seedlings
It seems the weather in the Bay Area is determined to be stormy this spring. We have had a ton of rain, which is both wonderful and difficult. Wonderful of course because around here, we can *always* use the rain. Difficult, for me at least, because rain means more mold and more dust mites which means more *fun* on the health front, but at least I have the sound of the rain to keep me company while I veg out on the couch.
The rain has also meant that our seedlings from the Ostara ritual are well feed and growing like … well… happy seeds! I even had enough energy today to go out and get most of them transplanted over into bigger pots so they can stretch out and grow the next steps. That of course meant I needed to take pictures 
Here are the seeds getting planted at the Ostara ritual (how about that plate of cakes – er carrots and strawberries we got to share?)
the seeds in their new homes (being guarded by my younger son’s bike)
I honestly have no idea exactly what in each pot (oops!) we had a little too much fun at the ritual and lost track of what went where. I’m pretty sure that my cats were working some serious mind control on the gang though, as I did recognize a fair amount of catnip among the seedlings. I think I saw a few sunflowers and I pretty sure I one pot has lettuce seedlings in it – so that will be nice. The rest? no idea! we had seeds for Hollyhock, cucumber, a couple of different herbs, some squashes, and more sunflowers… so this should be a lot of fun once the seedlings start showing their true nature.
Here’s a couple of other photos from the ritual:
Peeps of the North Altar Peeps of the East Altar
The Main Altar with our Chocolate bunny statues for God and Goddess
Next up… I need to get Demeter’s altar cleaned up, its a little neglected after the winter, I have a blueberry shrub to plant, and hopefully this summer we will finally get the labyrinth finished in the front yard! Pictures for everything of course!
Blessings,
Kate
Tags: altar, Gardening, health, ostara, planting, plants, ritual, seedlings, spring
