For the past few months I have been making these homemade incense scents with herbs from the garden. We've always used incense to perfume and clean the house -which we buy in different places and at different times.
One, after 16 years, gets used to live in a place full of fruit trees, aromatic herbs, native plants that have different uses, tubers, eggs, chickens, peacocks, a diversity of birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, crickets, tucu-tucu (insects that produce a green light, totally amazing! scientific name: Pyrophorus), lights moving across the sky every night, earthquakes, mountains, desert weather,... So we take so much abundance for granted and forget how many things we can do with all the wonders in our garden.
We have many aromatic (and other types) of the most traditional and many native herbs that we can use to make herb bundles to perfume and clean our homes and to heal our bodies: lavender, rosemary, laurel, wormwood, pájaro bobo (Tessaria absinthioides), matico (Piper aduncum), jarilla (Larrea), chilca (Baccharis dracunculifolia), ruda, salvia, cedron (Aloysia citrodora), burro (Aloysia polystachya), and many many more.
Depending on the plant I make some ties longer and others smaller and shorter. It is said that the bundle should always be odd so I usually make 3 or 5 herbs but there is one that is my favorite so I make some of them with that one herb: jarilla. It surpasses all others in intensity and its perfume is really delicious and unique.
These photos are of the first bundles of herbs I made.
This is my entry for #monomad by @monochromes
Self-portraits and more
From the garden
Digital photography + homemade filter
Cheers!
Bárbara Bezina ♥
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Leer tus historias de la finca me hace querer vivir en el campo a mi tambien.
me encantó la atmosfera de la foto, parece algo de ensueño
Es lo mejor del mundo y cada día es la mejor decision que uno podría tomar: vivir rodeado de naturaleza. ♥
No puedo dejar de usar esos filtros 😅 Me encantan!