Events & Celebrations, Flora, Insects
Enchanted Forest and Stone Circle Photos 🌺🪨
Last week’s gathering was a magical time coming together with old friends and new. We didn’t have a chance to take pictures during the event, but wanted to share a few of the photos that Brennah has taken this spring in the woods, as well as photos that I took of the stones that were collected and placed into the stone circle as offerings.
Trilliums with mossy log
Wild Geraniums (also known as Cranesbill)
Solomon’s Seal in foreground
Wild Geraniums
A type of False Solomon’s Seal (also known as Starry False Solomon’s Seal)
Wild Geraniums
Jack-in-the-pulpit in foreground
Before Trillium blossoms begin to fade, first they turn from white to pink. It can be a light pink, or a deep pink like this one.
Wild Geraniums carpeting the forest floor
Lily of the valley
Trilliums and Wild Geraniums
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Wild Geraniums and a type of False Solomon’s Seal (also known as Solomon’s Plume)
A patch of False Solomon’s Seal
Trillium
A new spring ephemeral (a type of Maianthemum) which has just begun showing up in the woods this year.
A Miner Bee – likely to be specifically a Cranesbill Miner Bee, which specializes in Wild Geraniums. (Miner bees are hard to tell apart.)
A patch of Trilliums
The plants in the photos are all rare or endangered (except Lily of the Valley). Many of them are also medicinal and are specific to certain pollinators which need that particular plant to live.
We’re so happy that everything timed out right for folks to see the spring ephemerals at their prime. It truly was a lovely time of enjoying the land and being in community. If anyone has other pictures you would like to share from this event, please send them along for consideration to share privately here on our Patreon.
The stone circle after the stone offerings were added.
Southeast stone and offering
South stone and Center stone
Northeast stones
Northwest stone
East stone and offerings
North stone and offerings
West stone and offerings
Center stone with offerings
Center stone and offerings
Southwest stone with offering
As always, thank you all so much for supporting everything we do here at Crossing Hedgerows!
Blessings,
Jean
All photos by Brennah are the property of Brennah Cavanaugh Photography LLC. Many plant ID’s as well as the ID of the Miner Bee were made by Brennah. For more of her amazing nature photography and writing, find her here on Patreon or at her website https://brennahcavanaugh.com
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Written by : Jean Cavanaugh
Jean Cavanaugh is the founder and steward of Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary, established in 2019 as a living, learning community devoted to reconnecting people with the wisdom of nature, the sacred order of creation, and the presence of Christ within all life. Her work brings together spiritual formation, ecological stewardship, ancestral wisdom, and hands-on community practice.
Through years of practical work on the land, study of the Mysteries, and the healing of her own severe health challenges through natural methods, Jean has come to recognize God’s hand at work throughout creation. Her teachings, rooted in the Mystery School tradition and Christian gnosis, explore how the patterns of heaven, earth, and the human body reveal the way back to divine presence, peace, and inner strength.
Jean leads with honesty, integrity, and a deeply welcoming spirit, inviting others to let go of inherited assumptions and rediscover truth through lived experience and embodied understanding. She works with all ages—from preschoolers to elders—offering programs and celebrations that emphasize direct engagement with nature, music, story, homesteading skills, and in-person community.
She and her family live at the 21-acre Crossing Hedgerows Sanctuary, where daily life reflects a commitment to simplicity, beauty, and harmony with the land. The sanctuary includes gardens, woodland trails, a seasonal creek, gathering circles, and spaces designed to nourish both people and wildlife. Jean is especially passionate about creating environments that are grounding, beautiful, and spiritually restorative.
Through her writing and teaching, Jean encourages others to know themselves, know creation, and recognize Christ as the living truth present within and around us—always inviting a return to love, beauty, and the sacred order of life.
