foraging
Women’s association with such knowledge extends back to some of the earliest surviving depictions of the human form: the ubiquitous sculpted female figurines of the last Ice Age with their woven headgear, string skirts and belts made of cord.
page 237, The Dawn of Everything
I googled for an image of these figurines with headgear, string skirts, and belts. I didn’t find a clear one, so I moved on. The string skirt makes me smile. I could manage to make a wearable belt and maybe the headgear, but a string skirt? I just liked this quote because it mentions clothes.
Meanwhile, on the homestead – wild blueberry picking. We harvest and freeze as much as we can so we don’t have to buy any.
I spend time in these spots only during the summer. I forget how interesting they can be.
the blueberries look like other-worldly stars shining out from a green sky … they must taste amazing straight off the branch
and I do love orb weavers … which seem like the best possible candidates for inspiring Charlotte’s Web
Aren’t they amazing? Not as thick here as they are in some commercial (although still wild) fields, where it looks like there’s a blue haze. And I am really happy to see the friendly orb weaver, always see at least one out there.