Outagamie Trail - Wisconsin
July 4, 2026
At the 250 Year Marker I find myself undergone some stress and emotional confusion in spiritual domains that I began to suppress the connection and it has hindered the ability to move. The part of you that wants to keep on going and has no idea where that extra burst of connective, relational, or earthly volition comes from is also inhibiting the negative side effects of being down and out without a history for its oncoming attacks. This is relevant for the study of time and space in diversity when you are spiritually attuned and ingesting multiple variations that do not sit well with you? Go for a walk and find a medicine for you, there are many - picking up books with experts who have studied it offer great tips and advice for when to pick and how to harvest and store it if you need! Here is my little bit of documenting history (hopefully my child and his children will check out my blog someday):Remember: when you pick to put it down with why and what you are picking it for.
Today I picked three separate groupings:
The first it was to speak with the people, with the purpose of the medicine, to allow me the spiritual connection to be recognized as speaking with it. That's what it means, with clarity.
The second batch I found was a small group, I considered it the elite, knowing, reason why we share knowledge.
The third was a much larger batch and the reason why we restrict knowledge. It was reminiscent of how to consider why we speak and lead with our best intentions often build and that opportunity wants to remain open but we just cannot sometimes. I did not want to get greedy beyond this third group I found and left with what was offered in that small amount of connecting why we harvest Indian Tobacco. So we can talk!
Here are some images:
Image 0. Found a patch of Bergamot growing (small light colored budding along the edge of the trail clearing) - a light colored purple attractor of honey bees and other insects; make into tea for cold symptoms - stem, flower, root
Image 1. A small patch of raspberries was spotted near the Bergamot - please try not to pick these since most animals have certain movements and it helps with identifying where they are, what to depend on when it becomes ripe, and who may get it after all!
Image 2. Bergamot
Image 3. Zoom in of Bergamot flower; the color and type of petal are unique but can be confused with purple clover.
Image 4. Drying Indian Tobacco by spreading out and letting it air dry. Once it becomes dry and brittle, crumble as best as you can and keep in pouch. This is what is used as offering (dry or burned) and can be put into products also to help alleviate the reality adjustment since it is a spiritual medicine for mind it helps in clarifying many types of individual phenomena.
Image 5. Identifying the Wild Dandelion. Grows very fast as a ditch weed, can find them there, they grow in single or bunches and the better time to pick them is early Spring when the buds are closed in day light. These ones would be fine to pick if needed but as you can see from Image 7, the root is more diluted in color and is drawn to the plant more which did produce a darker green at this time (about a month after the initial picking this past Spring).
Image 6. Wild Dandelions have base roots that extend at the top soil layer and thin out so when you pull them get at the very base, the part that touches the soil and pull from that point to get as much of the root out of the ground as possible (just like carrots)!
Image 7. Pulls out very easily when done the right way. Pulling them by the side of road where the gravel is helps with the soil to pull them with cleaner roots!
Image 8. When looking for Indian Tobacco, it loves meadows and being along the edge of the tree line or roadway. Check your pathways and you can find them snuggled in tall grasses as an insecticide.
Image 9. It is more than the weed and recognizing the same flower head, the stem and roots are the real difference and medicinal properties that you want.
Image 10. This is not a dandelion but it was growing near it. I thought maybe some hybrid species, it had an entirely different stem texture and growing pattern.
Image 11. They are different bunches, even if they grow together, may never produce a hybrid but it is possible sometimes to alter the genes of these rags. They change, dramatically together. Keep an eye on them. So far I have them at a 100 year change marker for leaf and height variations noted as a personal observance (nothing official yet, though I do encourage it)
Image 12. When we see plants, they don't talk to us. But where they stand, tells us their life story and it helps us understand what it is undergoing. It might be describing genetical alterations, why it changes, and how often it changes. When this happens, what alters and why did it change for what to survive?
Image 13. I do not know what this is, but it has a couple of different other variations of plant species I find consistently - milkweed and lilac. It has no pungent odor and the leaves are thick like milkweed. Just identifying this plant mostly to research and consider if I will use it and for what...
Image 14. Roadside weeds with no flower heads means strong winds (we did have tornado watches recently with multiple strong thunderstorms with heavy rainfall recently). Can be more difficult to identify them - it is better to watch for them in the Spring!
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