Summer Abundance

With
all the bounty of the earth ripening in the garden and the fields, and
the creative spirit of the Women’s Festival at Stillpoint Farms where I
vended this past weekend, I wanted to create something honoring this
flow of abundance. I needlefelted this wall hanging, working on it late
into the night, of a woman in the fields with a basket of apples she has
just harvested from the tree. I wanted to convey the feeling of sowing
and reaping, and of things being plentiful. This feeling abounded at
Stillpoint Farms on Saturday. My little booth was surrounded by the
crafting booths
of so many amazing women artists, all of whom worked together
throughout the day to uplift one another and create a  flow of nurturing
and abundance. I sold my handcrafts, I bartered for some other
beautiful handcrafts, I won some beautiful art in the raffle, I listened
to soulful music all day long, and I had numerous conversations with
other women, healers, musicians and artists, making a few new friends
along the way. I spent some time appreciating the landscape around the
farm with its rolling hills, forests and fields. Apples hung ripening on
the trees, blackberries glistened on the vine, and strawberries grew
juicy and red in the fields below. I am grateful for this day, and for
abundance.