Country life

I can distinctly remember saying to myself that I would only get ONE wheel and loom. Not to mention the shit load of embroidery supplies, and plant based dye's for the self spun yarn. Which also lead to growing said plants...

Hawthorn

Even though Ramon Llull was a real historical person, there are many legends that talk about him. Born in the year 1232 in Mallorca, he was a prolific writer, philosopher, and theologist, who became the first European writer to use a folk language to write about science, instead of Latin. He wrote mostly in his mother language Catalan, but also in Arabic, Latin, and Occitan. He is one of the founding figures of Catalan literature and was very influential throughout the Christendom for centuries.

But added to the historical facts, many legends and folktales circulate about him or where he shows up, especially in his home island Mallorca.

Around the year 1274, Ramon Llull retired to the Randa mountain (in Mallorca) to meditate, where received the divine illumination to write his Ars. Also in all the area of Randa, you can find many bushes that look like this:

Photos from toponimiamallorca.net and Rafel Bauza Verd.

This is a kind of lentisk bush (Pistacia lentiscus) where the leafs have a change in pigmentation. In Mallorcan Catalan, this bush is called mata escrita, which means "written bush".

Some people say that these are the words dictated by God to Ramon Llull, which spread through nature written in a sacred Eastern alphabet.

Fields of Balsam Root

Sunny day at Satoyama garden.