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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
I have recently completed the latest cross-stitch I’ve been working on, a pattern published in 2000 by one of my favorite designers, Nora Corbett of Mirabilia Designs, whose designs are always oh-so eye catching. This one is called Scent of Old Roses, and yes, the title was definitely one of the reasons I just couldn’t resist it. Though another reason was the somewhat understated website photo, which, as you will see, doesn’t quite capture the quite glittery effect of the…
See Previous | See Next I’ve got flowers! The crocuses and the crazy red alien tulips actually decided to show up at the same time. (These were surprise tulips planted by the previous owners. As you can see, they bloom very early, but also, in the bright sun, they open almost flat, quite unlike tulips as I previously understood them.) Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years is quite the advertisement for the consistency of these tulips. Otherwise, it suggests…
Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 13 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… There is no frog-song. But there is bewitchment in the scent of this thing that has been lost for so long. Beneath the leaves of ruby-petaled flowers,…
See Previous | See Next Last week I complained about the lack of snow, so this week we did get a tiny dusting, which tried (valiantly) and failed to make last year’s garden scruff look elegant and white-edged. Once it disappeared the garden was back to looking brown from a distance, but showing creeping green and more and more tulip shoots in the close-ups. (Update: Well, Sunday night it really did snow (see inset), much more effectively (~4 inches?) and…