fly-by-posting 2023/04/28
Arrgh! degenerate filenames! I shake my fist at thee!
SSCS 01: Installment 17 of 31
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 17 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… At last, there is something solid in the darkness, a sliver of rock or an ancient, blackened bone, or something else unknowable, but it offers them rest,…
Fly-by-Posting 2023/04/25
I just feel so much more hopeful when it’s rainy.
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 16
See Previous | See Next Well, we got more snow this week so that I woke up and looked outside and everything looked like it had been frosted with powdered sugar. It was cool enough and enough snow to hang around for a day or so and provide some proper moisture, so everything was beautiful, beautiful white and green. The winter brown has finally been chased away, and the tulips are really gearing themselves up to go. Looking back 1-2…
Wonderland Art!
Hello! Today I would like to tell you about an artist whose work I quite adore. Kirsty Mitchell (website here) is an art photographer who, for her Wonderland series, built elaborate set pieces, props, and costumes and utilized the natural beauty of the English woods and countryside to create windows into her Wonderland. The details are so exquisite and the boundaries between the woods and the Wonderland so carefully blurred, that many of the pieces look like they must be…
SSCS 01: Installment 16 of 31
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 16 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Green-and-purple flashes through the ice, and the others fall to her. And the sound of honey pauses, and takes a considering sip of the void. Here is…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 15
See Previous | See Next Yay. We had some blessed rain and snow this week, and that really made things perk up lovely. For a little bit on Saturday, the grass had snow shadows in the shapes of the trees, and sprinkled snow lay on the plum branches like white blossoms. And the daffodils are here! random yellow dots here and there and everywhere! I love bulb flowers. I also love my pretty, pretty hellebores, and so I couldn’t resist…
SSCS 01: Installment 15 of 31
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 15 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Around them, now, the blocks of ice are not only blocks of ice. They are something screaming, or singing, locked in a perpetual whirlpool around this place,…
Weekly Garden Snapshot: 2023 week 14
See Previous | See Next All the green shoots coming up in my garden! Iris leaves and tulip shoots and daffodils! My red lentin roses are always so nice and healthy, but a lot more of my garden is still so dry that the other hellebores are struggling. But, that’s not stopping everything else, and this year SO many tulips (maybe) – if I can just get them water. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years say that buds on…
SSCS 01: Installment 14 of 31
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 14 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! Previously… Her body has already turned thin as starlight. When the ice block catches her, it shears through her like starlight, flinging her bright and outward and everywhere…