Compelled to share my ideas of the forest as I have never been so much in them. Not my favorite kind of landscape, by far not as there is really not much to see when it comes to sweeping distances. Unending waves of land like a desert are none. Yet, there is this strong pull to be in the forest.
Update 2026: the photo above shows a Lyme test has just been done. I am not using any repellent (nor sunscreen) as it is not 100% effective. I had an engorged thick for more than 2 days on my head, and had the test done 6 weeks later. A Lyme test is usually most reliable after about 4–6 weeks because your immune system needs time to produce the antibodies that the test is designed to detect.
I am not carrying anything that I don’t use daily. These bottles of homemade repellent were not effective enough to carry around. I do carry pieces of fabric and threads for my daily creative expressions.
