Because the Desert is a Great, Broad Beast of Memory This is Installment 18 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… The birthing of what? The scouts do not speak the question. They let it shiver through their fur, along the hollow planes of their stick-thin bones, and…
See Previous | See Next My garden is starting to be painted with spring colors this week! I’ve got tulips starting in front. The wild plum bushes are just starting to bloom. And my pretty, pretty pasque flower is showing its soft, feathery face. Looking back 1-2 weeks and 1-2 years promises more blooming branches to come and yet more color from the tulips. Looking back 2-4 weeks and 2-4 years, (despite a sad data-gap) promises pretty lilacs soon too….
Arrgh! degenerate filenames! I shake my fist at thee!
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,…
I just feel so much more hopeful when it’s rainy.
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…
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,…