A Druid’s Web Log – March 2021 – Maple sugaring season is here!

It’s maple sugaring season in my neck of the forest, the sugaring process has just begun. Sunny days and freezing nights are the requirements, the signs that spring is slowly but surely inching our way . This week we will have only one freezing day, the rest of the week will be relatively balmy, in the high 30’s and low 40’s. There are patches of bare ground and visible grass, in-between the snow piles.

I can tell its almost spring because I have been putting out egg shells from breakfast and the birds can’t seem to eat them fast enough. They are obviously preparing for egg laying of their own. Neighbors have been excited to report flocks of blue birds at their feeders while I have been visited by Carolina wrens.

A neighbor has already sighted a black bear lounging in the snow, probably a male, as they emerge first. I am laying out the last of the seed for the birds. In a week or two I will stop feeding them altogether, to prevent the bears from raiding the feeders and destroying them.

My big news this Moonth is the re-issue of my trilogy of Druid novels. They are out under a new imprint; “Oak Spirit Publishing” and available in both paper and eBook versions.

Each book contains an Old Irish glossary with a pronunciation guide, so readers can learn the correct terms for Druidic tools, names, rituals and practices. There is plenty of Druidic spirituality within each volume, and teachings about Iron Age herbalism and daily life. The books are Bardic tales for those who want to learn about Druidism in a fun and easy manner.

The other big news is my new children’s book (no title yet!) that will be out this spring. I am collaborating with illustrator Lauren A. Mills and author Jane Yolen wrote the foreword. Here is the first stage (the underpainting for an oil illustration) for the La Befana story.

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