WIP - Sandstone No. 4

Sometimes anger can work for you and other times against you.  Frustration cuts the same way as well.  I started going through a pile of WIP's, frustrated with the size it's become and still pissed of at some comments today that at this point are just pointless.  As my husband likes to point out some folks taste is all in their mouth.

So, after putting Canyonlands No. 2 to rest for the evening I started auditioning my pile of WIP's.  Do you see him?  The Medicine Man, peering out from the stoney surface? I'm not sure if the image can be made larger by clicking on it or not.

Viola Sororia

Chopped violet leaves

I'm supposed to steep a half pound of violet blossoms, well I had about a cups worth, if that as it's kinda late in the season here for blossoms.

Below I'm steeping a half quarts worth of fresh tender heart shaped leaves that have been chopped.

I'm learning how to make tinctures, extracts, syrups and the like, I'm a rank novice beginner when it comes to herbals though I'm good at plant id. On today's docet Violet Blossom Syrup (ok there are not nearly enough blossoms in my neighborhood but I digress) and Violet Leaf Tincture.