by Atala | Jul 5, 2013 | Nature Spirit | Trees
The interaction between humans and nature is profound, and each affects the other. Here are a large number of third eye and portal trees located on the campus of Swarthmore College, in Swarthmore, PA – my alma mater. The renown Scott Arboretum is housed...
by Atala | Jun 28, 2013 | Nature Spirit | Trees
A piece of land interacts with the energies that occur on it. These energies shape it. The energies can come from the local deva, from the humans living on it in recent times, from ancient occurrences lost to human memory, from its position on the earth grid. The land...
by Atala | Jun 14, 2013 | Nature Spirit | Trees
I have found in my nature photography wanderings many of the nature types we hear of in folk tales and the old Celtic nature tales. There are all sorts of personalities in both trees and rocks – the buffoon, the happy go lucky, the warrior, merchant,...
by Atala | Jun 11, 2013 | Spirit | Guides & Guardians
I just returned from my college reunion. While there, a classmate told me about a mutual friend whose behavior had been so hard to live with – way too much of the bottle – that her partner had left her. The woman, my friend said, felt...
by Atala | Jun 7, 2013 | Community, Nature Spirit | Trees
I love it when I go for a walk in nature, pose a question to the universe – and get answered with a cosmic kiss! The universe hears everything, and responds. It is just that we sometimes don’t know how to listen. Here are some nature spirit hearts who...
by Atala | Jun 4, 2013 | Community
The ghost of a young girl in a late 1800s prairie gingham dress stood under the pine tree outside my window and looked inside forlornly. Gigi, an attractive and eccentric artist, had come to me for a personal consultation. She kept seeing beings walking about her...
by Atala | Jun 1, 2013 | Nature Spirit | Photography Tips
Here’s a fun project for you to try out. How do you like the “nature spirits” in this image? I created them “magically” via Photoshop cut and paste. I wanted to experiment with a popular Photoshop project of cutting and adjusting photo...
by Atala | May 31, 2013 | Spirit | Consciousness
I stood on the stone-fenced hill, under the majestic old school playground tree. I watched myself as a little girl fifty years before playing king of the mountain at that same place. It was lunch recess then, on a warm sunny early summer day in Jenkintown,...
by Atala | May 27, 2013 | Celestial Events, Interdimensional Cooperation
Memorial Day. Let’s consider the importance of this day on a personal, even interdimensional, level. On this day, we are asked to set aside time to honor those who came before us. Those who have sacrificed their lives in service to an ideal they held dear. These...
by Atala | May 25, 2013 | Nature Spirit | Photography Tips
Any good portrait photographer knows that the background can enhance or detract from the subject, and plans accordingly. It is a bit more difficult for a nature spirit photographer, for we are photographing in a natural setting with other trees, bushes, and buildings...
