Sångshyttan Micro Season Calendar
One year has passed. Inspired by Japanese tradition and Alexa Firmenich on her blog Lifeworlds, we have created a micro season calendar. We followed life on the farm as it unfolded over the course of one a year , from March 2024 to March 2025. It describes different events and important relationships that we have with the more than human world on the farm. Instead of dividing each day into one of four seasons, the Japanese calendar is divided into 72 different sections. Each of these sections lies within one of 24 divisions, all of which have been given descriptively beautiful names. The 72 sections (or kō) only last for about five days each, but still perfectly describe what happens as life blossoms and ebbs.
9 – 14 March / Snowdrops
One year has passed, I have followed the nature and my land for one year. I started 2024 15 of March with Snowdrops and bees Galanthis Nevalis som important for the first bees flying out in the spring ( if you look really carefully you can see a bee somewhere in the picture...). Now we are back again in March 2025. I feel so incredible rich and thankful.
4 – 8 March / Foggy sun over black ice
The foggy sun shines over back ice. It is not so far away now, open water when the ice disappear imperceptibly into the waves. The landscape is so clean and still. The world starts over again.
26 February – 3 March / Sun worship
Time stops when I sit down, facing the sun, resting against the red wall. The sun, I worship it now that it finally returns and brings everything back to life. Even my heart feels more alive.
21 – 25 February / Longtaild tits visit
I hear the small talk from three Long Tailed Tits sitting in the marple tree. They are small but can be recognized by the long tail. I think they are visiting us on their way somewhere else. A happy sign of spring.
16 – 20 February /Tawny owls singing in the spring night
The horizon to the west looks like it's on fire in the last minutes of sunset. In the darkness that follows, I hear the Tawny owls hooting in the linden trees. Perhaps we can hope for rejuvenation this year too.
12 – 16 February / Sun-heated south side
Sunny days are warming despite the night cold and all the south sides are getting snow free and I see all the little micro sheltered places. There, grass and flower wake up despite the cold nights that freeze their laborious work. I put my face in the grass and smell the old and new that meet, right here and now.