https://emilyporth.co.uk 2026-04-02 daily 1.0 https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image02.jpg Photo of several handmade Brigid's crosses, made from soft rushes. They are traditionally made to hang in one's home as a blessing for protection. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image05.png Circular logo with text that says Heart of Yew Ceremonies around the top and Dr Emily Porth around the bottom. Centre is a close of up of 3 small yew tree branches that looks like a linocut print. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image01.jpg Looking up into the branches of a massive ancient sweet chestnut tree, with the sun lighting up the bright green foliage. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image10.png https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image18.jpg Close-up photo of rosemary in flower. Rosemary traditionally symbolises remembrance. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image14.jpg Close up of yew branches with red berries and the sun shining on them. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image17.jpg Close up of an ivy leaf on a stone slightly bigger than it, with the water of a river running over it. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image16.jpg Wild garlic and bluebells flowering in a woodland with soft sunlight filtering in through the trees behind them. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image08.jpg Photo looking up the wall of a ruined castle in the sunshine. A bright pink thistle is growing out of the wall on a ledge partway up. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image07.jpg Classical pattern labyrinth mown into the lawn. Several participants are walking it in the rain. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image03.jpg Close-up photo of rosemary in flower. Rosemary is associated with remembrance. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image13.png https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image12.jpg Emily stands in front of a couple who are facing her, with their backs to the photographer. Emily's eyes are closed and she holds the script in front of her. It is autumn and behind her is a small hill covered in moss and blaeberries, with heather and birc https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image15.jpg A couple stand behind a low altar table holding a candle, wooden plate with a round loaf, wooden goblet, bottle of mead, and a wedding bouquet. One of the couple wears a blue and green kilt and the other wears a knee-length white wedding dress. A green and https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image06.jpg Photo of my family from my daughter's naming ceremony. I'm the woman on the left with long dark hair and smiling, wearing a blue dress with flowers. Husband is on the right and wearing a blue jumper with a kilt and sporran. Our daughter is between us. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image04.jpg Image of Mary Oliver's poem "I Want to Write Something So Simply" https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image11.jpg I'm standing in front of a couple in a woodland vow renewal ceremony as a tie their handfasting cord. We are all smiling and laughing. There are autumn leaves all around us on the forest floor and beautiful sunlight streaming in from the left. https://emilyporth.co.uk/assets/images/image09.jpg Photo looking up the wall of a ruined castle in the sunshine. A bright pink thistle is growing out of the wall on a ledge partway up.