When you peel away the leathery skin of a ripe avocado you find the rich buttery fruit inside. Avocados are so good for you and rich in natural fats and vitamins. It is a wonderful skin food, and also one of my favorite natural beauty ingredients. Especially well suited for dry skin types. Also all parts of the fruit are useful from the buttery fruit, rich natural oil that you can now find at the grocery store to the pit or stone that makes a wonderful skin scrub or massa

It is blackberry season here in Oregon. I love to go berry picking in the morning and luckily I have a patch of wild berries right in front of my house as here people really do not like to share where they find these sweet treasures. They appear in the summer and before the summer heat and birds find them they are yours for the picking. (If you do go wild berry picking make sure you have permission and you also know that the berries you are picking have not been sprayed an