Image: “Equinoctial Sun, Santa Monica Mountains, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 18 September 2026, BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

• INTRODUCTION
• OUTLINE
• VIDEO BY ALICE
• SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
• VIDEO CREDITS
• CONCLUSION
• PHOTOS BY ALICE

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INTRODUCTION

Dear Ones,

Here are highlights from a walk in the Santa Monica Mountains just a few days before the Autumn Equinox 2026. Special guest stars: Ravens, Royden Douglass, Woodpeckers, Orange Dragonflies and their Babies, Hummingbirds, Mother Oak Tree and her Babies, and the Songbirds.

There are several stories, including among others a story about our Ascension gifts for this Autumn Equinox 2026 and a story about Peace Dove’s arrival at my home.

There is a Summary beneath the video …

OUTLINE

• Let Him Speak as He Wants to Speak
• Hello to Acorn Woodpecker
• Equinoctial Gift: Subconscious Thoughts Clearing Up
• A Wink and a Nod from the Orange Dragonflies
• Caller of Dragonflies
• I thought I would try calling the Orange Dragonflies again!
• About the Baby Orange Dragonflies
• Orange Dragonflies at my house
• Locoweed – Destroyer of Little Grey Cells in Our Brains!
• A Baby Oak Tree that didn’t make it
• Telegraph Weed
• Caught my eye!
• Raven says: “Go out!” Orange Dragonfly and I converse about this.
• About the abolitionist Frederick Douglass
• A Story for the Hummingbird and the Woodpecker About Peace Dove. They don’t like the story because it’s a little bit sad, but I thought it’s good to tell everyone Peace Dove’s story. How do you feel about it?
• Peace Dove’s WInter Feather Coat
• Peace Dove misses the Argentine Ants
• Songbirds say they like the other Ascensioneers and Lightworkers very much!
• Baby Oak Trees like to tickle their Mothers’ toes
• How an exercise partner once helped me to push myself to my personal best athletically
• Woodpecker says: Never-ending story!
• Religious one-upmanship: Householders versus Celibate spiritual people
• So long for now! Happy Autumn Equinox 2026!
• Sparkly Cars – image
• Equinoctial Sun – image
• Baby Oak Trees and Their Mom – image
• Alice B. Clagett – Author and Producer – image

VIDEO BY ALICE

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SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

“Vignettes in the Lead-up to Autumn Equinox 2026”
By Alice B. Clagett

These are vignettes in the leadup to Autumn Equinox 2026 by Alice B. Clagett aka Royden Douglass … Royden Douglass … and the Raven.

Let Him Speak as He Wants to Speak

I was talking to the Raven and the Raven used a certain word that I don’t usually approve of.

And I said, “Raven, Not everybody speaks like that.” And I usually advise it’s not such a good idea. And then the Orange Dragonfly flew by, a Lady Dragonfly, and she said, “Let him speak as he likes to speak.”

And I said, “You’re right. That’s what I’ll do.”

Alice to Raven: “Right?’

Alice to Readers: “And Raven said … well, he said, ‘Right.’ But he used that other word too.

Hello to Acorn Woodpecker

Alice to Acorn Woodpecker: “Dude, dude, you’re so beautiful! Where are you? Pecker, Pecker, Pecker, Pecker.”

Equinoctial Gift: Subconscious Thoughts Clearing Up

Alice to Readers: “Well, it’s almost Fall Equinox 2026. That’ll be on the 22nd of September, 2026. And there have been so many changes going on in the noosphere of Earth. I can’t begin to enumerate all of them.

“But I can say from a personal point of view that many issues longstanding in the subconscious mind in my case have been clearing up. So I hope it’s the same for you.”

A Wink and a Nod from the Orange Dragonflies

Image: “Libellula saturata,” by Regular Daddy, May 2028, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RubyMhawk.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported …

COMMENTS: This Orange Dragonfly is also known as Flame Skimmer or Firecracker Skimmer. –Alice B. Clagett

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Alice to Dragonfly: “Dragonfly, where are you? Dragon. Dragon Dragonfly! Orange Dragonfly. Where are you? Oh, thank you very much. Wow, look at you. Thank you very much. Dragonfly. Dragonfly. Thank you very much. Wow.”

Alice to Readers: “Did you guys see those Dragonflies? Wow. So beautiful. And such good flyers, aren’t they? They can go sideways. They can go backwards. They can go anywhere they want. Super fast. Dragonflies. Wow.”

Caller of Dragonflies

Alice to Readers: “Royden Douglass, Caller of Dragonflies.

[‘Royden Douglass’ means: “Valley with cleared land through which a dark stream courses.”]

“Colonizer of great cleared valley with the dark waters running through it. I,
Alice B. Clagett, am also Royden Douglass.”

I thought I would try calling the Orange Dragonflies again!

Alice to Dragonfly: “Dragonfly. Dragonfly. Where are you? Where did you go? Oh!

[Slo Mo (0.125x) repeat, showing Dragonfly zooming by, left to right]

“Dragonfly. Dragonfly. Dragonfly. Could I have a picture, please?

Thank you very much. Thank you. You’re the greatest. The most beautiful Dragonfly. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.”

Alice to Readers: “Can you see them flying around? Wow. Wow.”

Alice to Dragonflies: “Can you fly close? Could you fly very close to the camera? I want to show the people how beautiful you are. You’re very beautiful, Dragonflies.

“No, we’re scared? Okay. All right. You’re not scared! Beautiful Dragonflies.

“There you are. There you are. I knew you weren’t scared. I knew you were not scared. Thank you. Thank you.

“Anybody else want to be in the picture? Anybody at all? No. No. No. Okay.

“Dragonfly. Dragonfly. Thinking about the Dragonflies. Where are they? Where did they go?”

Alice to Readers: “They went some place. I love Dragonflies.

[What’s that SOUND?]

“They got a bad rap in the medieval times in Europe, but they’re wonderful animals. Just wonderful.

[Can you hear the huffing windy sound? The Orange Dragonflies are talking to me!]

“So beautiful. Wow. Such beautiful animals.

“Oh. Oh. Oh! They say they’re not animals.”

Alice to Dragonflies: “Did I get that right? You’re not animals? You’re …

Alice, repeating what Dragonflies say: “You’re an Ancient Race? You’re Caretakers of the Earth?”

[Orange Dragonfly says: “And by the way, Black Magic is NOT what we normally do. Not at silly old all!”]

About the Baby Orange Dragonflies

Image: “Dragonfly Nymph,” by Southwest Biological Science Center, 14 January 2015, in USGS … https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/dragonfly-nymph-order-odonata … Public domain …

COMMENTS: This looks to me like a Baby Orange Dragonfly, also known as Libellula saturata, Flame-skimmers, or Firecracker Skimmers. –Alice B. Clagett

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Alice to Readers: “The Young Dragonflies say, ‘The important thing is that we don’t eat them up. We gobble up what is not supposed to be there.’

“Those were the sweet, sweet voices of the Dragonfly Nymphs that live in the riparian area on the other side of the road there.

“They’re so sweet. They’re so wonderful. And I’m sure those voices probably won’t show up on the video, but I heard them. They’re really endearing. They’re wonderful creatures. Ah, they’re the Caretakers of Earth. And you know what? Royden Douglass is that as well.

Alice to Baby Dragonflies: “Thank you, Dragonfly Baby. Thank you very much. You guys are cool, too. You know, you’re a very different sort of cool.

Alice to all the Dragonflies: “I’m impressed. Very impressed. Yes, I am. Very fine Dragonfly Babies and very fine Dragonflies. Wow.”

[Alice to Readers: “Baby Orange Dragonflies are chanting, in time with my steps:

‘We are the Dragonflies!
We are the Dragonflies!
We are the Dragonflies!
Yes we are!’

Can you hear them?”]

Orange Dragonflies at my house

Alice to Readers: “There’s a Dragonfly. You know, there’s a Dragonfly or two that hover over my swimming pool, too. Beautiful Dragonflies.

“Very rich, famous Dragonflies, they say, Yeah, in my swimming pool. [I think they feel well-to-do when the are around lots of water.] And I think they like me all right. Maybe not, but they seem to like me.

“All right. I hope you have a chance to make friends with a Dragonfly one day.

Locoweed – Destroyer of Little Grey Cells in Our Brains!

Alice to Readers: “Whatever you do, stay away from this loco plant. It destroys your brain cells.

“And even if you’re 18 years of age, in the prime of your brain cell capacity, losing one or two gray cells is a terrible catastrophe. That’s what I think.”

A Baby Oak Tree that didn’t make it

Alice to Readers: “Unfortunately, there’s a few more Trees planted here that have not made it, and I have something to say about that.

“This is what I’ve heard from the Trees and the Baby Trees. The Baby Trees want to live in the shadow of their parent.

“In that regard, they’re rather like human children. And generally speaking, they die of loneliness if they can’t be right there in the shade of their Mother.

“So a lot of times I see Tree plantings in the mountains hereabouts that fail. And I feel that may be one of the issues … their lack of proximity to their parents.

“You know they want to tickle their parents’ toes underneath the Earth. Yeah. That helps them sustain the will to live through the tough summer months. That’s the story, honestly.”

Telegraph Weed – image of plant and yellow flowers

Caught my eye! – image of two yellow signs and the hiking path

Raven says: “Go out!” Orange Dragonfly and I converse about this.

Alice to Raven: “Raven’s angry with me. What did you say, Raven?

“What? ‘Go out’?

“Oou, I’m getting angry. Royden Douglass becomes angry! Watch out, Raven!”

Alice to Dragonfly: “What do you think? Did I scare Raven?”

Alice, repeating what a Groundhog just said “‘Not very much!’. Is that Groundhog? ‘Not very much’!”

Alice to Dragonflies: “Where are the Dragonflies? Oh, look at you. Oh, look at you. Oh. Wow. Look at you. Wow. So beautiful. You guys are something else, you know. So, Wow.”

Alice to Raven: “Raven, did I scare you? I didn’t mean to scare you. I was just pretending. You’re very tough. Very tough. A tough Raven. Honestly!”

About the abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Alice to Readers: “You know, the name Douglass … the middle name of my grandfather on my mother’s side of the family and a name that I sometimes use … that name was popularized because of the famous person named Frederick Douglass, who was an abolitionist amongst other accomplishments. He was greatly looked up to and so ladies sometimes named their children Douglass.

A Story for the Hummingbird and the Woodpecker About Peace Dove. They don’t like the story because it’s a little bit sad, but I thought it’s good to tell everyone Peace Dove’s story. How do you feel about it?

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “Peace Dove said they [the people who first kept him] would put them out in the wild and just let them fly away, which is not too good because it’s hard to find food out there if you’re used to being inside the house and everybody gives you food all the time. So, Peace Dove …

“I’ll tell you the story. Peace Dove had to … they set him loose and he had to fly around in the underbrush and walk on the dirt and find seeds all day long.

“And he couldn’t fly up high because at night the Owls would eat him or during the day the Ravens would kill him.

“So he had to hide underneath of these little bushes like this and walk around in the dirt like a Mourning Dove.

“And then at night … Are you listening? … the Pack Rats would come out and frighten him.

“So the first time he came to my house, that night he said he wanted the light on all night long. He said he thought there were Pack Rats in the bedroom, but there were not. And he scared me so, I looked everywhere that there were no Pack Rats. He was just remembering, you know?”

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “Lucky thing you guys can fly up in the sky and nest in Trees where it’s safer. Did you like that story okay?

Hummingbirds to Alice: “Yes, We did too like that story!”

Hummingbird to Woodpecker: “Hummingbird, please say that you like that story!”

Woodpecker: “Better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better, better!”

Hummingbird to Woodpecker: “Will you please say that you like that story?”

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “Weird story, huh? Thank you. Thank you, Woodpecker. Thank you for saying you liked it. I can tell you’re the only one that liked it a little bit, but that’s okay. That’s okay.”

Hummingbird to Alice: “Tee hee hee. He didn’t like it so much.”

Peace Dove’s WInter Feather Coat

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “Peace Dove, he lost all his feathers one by one. And now he has his winter feather coat on. Beautiful big one. White. He can’t come out here. He’s a little too tame, you know? But I told him about you. Don’t worry about that.

“Yeah, I did. Already. I told him just now. Yeah, he’s thinking about you.”

Peace Dove misses the Argentine Ants

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “I told you about the Ants that were in the house, right? Tons and tons of Ants. And [Peace Dove] got used to talking to them. Now they went away and now he’s acting very odd.

Hummingbird to Alice: “Tee hee hee! Wait two more months.”

Alice to Hummingbirds and Woodpecker: “I don’t know what to think. What do you think?”

Alice, repeating Hummingbird: “‘Wait? Two months’?

Alice to Readers: “Okay, wait two months. They know what to do.”

Songbirds say they like the other Ascensioneers and Lightworkers very much!

Alice to Readers: “I stopped a little bit ago under an  Oak Tree. Looked like an Owl was nesting right above the picnic bench that was there. I could tell by the white marks on the bench.

“And I was talking to a Songbird over there and asking if it had ever heard of the people that are named on my Blogroll … the Ascensioneers and Lightworkers and Gatekeepers and all those folks.

“And I asked [the Songbirds] name by name, some of them. And the Songbirds there under the Oak Tree were very enthusiastic about the Lightworkers and the other people on the Blogroll. They said they knew them and they like them and they talk to them all the time.

“I cannot say their names here on the video for fear people might think I’m trying to skate on their excellent reputations. So, but I’d like you to know that the Songbirds I talk to like all of those people, too. Isn’t that cool? Yeah, they do. So, now you know.

Baby Oak Trees like to tickle their Mothers’ toes

Alice to Readers: “Okay now, I was talking to you about how Baby Oak Trees … when they’re planted, they like to tickle their Mothers’ toes and be near their Mothers in the shade. And I’m going to show you an excellent example of that.

“Okay. So now here we have a Mother Oak Tree right there. I think it’s a Valley Oak. I hope I’m right.

“And here in the shade of the Valley Oak, we have all the Young Oak Trees. And you see they’re doing terrific. They’re doing just terrific here in the shade of their Mother.

“You know, I think they talk to their Mom all day long, and to each other. And so they never get lonely and they never give up hope, even in the driest hottest days of the summer.

How an exercise partner once helped me to push myself to my personal best athletically

Alice to Readers: “And that reminds me of a story from my younger years when I used to go to karate special training.

“Yep. Another story. And so I went to the karate special training down south of Los Angeles and I didn’t know anybody there. And you had to run for a couple of miles on the beach every morning barefoot. And I was a terrible runner and I was about to give up running back.

“They were running very fast. That was the first thing you had to do during the special training. And I was about to give up. I was feeling well despondent, you know?

“And then a very nice gentleman amongst the group came up and ran right beside me all the rest of the way. And because I had someone there with me, encouraging me, I didn’t give up even though I’m a terrible runner.

“And it’s the same for these beautiful Young Oak Trees here. They have their Mother and their Brothers and Sisters right here, and they just don’t give up. That’s what I think.”

Alice to Oak Tree and to Young Oak Trees: “Bye, guys. See you guys later.”

Alice to Readers: “Yeah, because we have our friends around us. What do you think? What do you think?”

Woodpecker says: Never-ending story!

Woodpecker to Alice: “Never-ending story!”

Alice to Woodpecker: “What do you think, Woodpecker? Is that good?”

Alice to Readers: “Woodpecker got bored. That’s a fact. It’s true.

“Woodpecker is very truthful bird.”

Woodpecker to Alice: “Never-ending story!”

Alice to Readers: “He just … ‘Never-ending story!’ He just … ‘Never-ending story!’

Alice to Readers: “He just coughed up he did not like that story because it’s a never-ending story.”

Religious one-upmanship: Householders versus Celibate spiritual people

Alice to Readers: “Problems, problems amongst the religious peoples of Earth. The householders look down on the celibate people and the celibate people look down on the householders. This is Royden Douglass and I say there’s room on Earth for all kinds of spiritual people!”

So long for now! Happy Autumn Equinox 2026!

“God bless you all. keep you safe, and be with you through all your days.

“In love, Light, and joy, this is Alice B. Clagett. I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

“My website is  ‘Awakening with Planet Earth’ … https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..”

Sparkly Cars – image of country road and two cars

Equinoctial Sun – image of Equinoctial Sun shining in the sky above a big Oak Tree

Baby Oak Trees and Their Mom – image of sapling Oak Trees thriving in the shade of a Mother Oak Tree

Alice B. Clagett – Author and Producer – self-portrait

VIDEO CREDITS

“Vignettes in the Lead-up to Autumn Equinox 2026”
By Alice B. Clagett

Filmed on 18 September 2026 and produced on 20 September 2026
Location: Santa Monica Mountains, CA

Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 International –
By Alice B. Clagett

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My website is “Awakening with Planet Earth”

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CONCLUSION

Io lux et pax nobiscum.
Joy, light and peace be with us!
— Alice B. Clagett

“Dominus illuminatio mea et salus mea; quem timebo?”
The Lord is my Light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?

Filmed on 18 September 2026 and published on 20 September 2026; revised on 27 September 2026

PHOTOS BY ALICE

Image: “Sparkly Cars, Santa Monica Mountains, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 18 September 2026, BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

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Image: “Baby Oak Trees, Santa Monica Mountains, California,” by Alice B. Clagett, 18 September 2026, BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..

 

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