Eastleach, St Martin’s
15 Friday Jan 2021
Posted Architecture, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Religion, winter
in15 Friday Jan 2021
Posted Architecture, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Religion, winter
in14 Thursday Jan 2021
Posted Architecture, art, History, Photography
in03 Sunday Jan 2021
Posted art, Environment, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography, Religion, winter
in06 Sunday Dec 2020
Posted art, Family, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Social Comment
in30 Wednesday Sep 2020
Posted Autumn, Environment, History, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography, Supernatural
inPhotos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
18 Friday Sep 2020
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Alba, Apollo, Bog Star, Dalriada, Elysium, faith, Grass of Parnassus, haar, Lismore, martyrdom, Picts, Rosemarkie, St Columba, St Moluag, The Hill of Fire
You, the favourite bloom of St Moluag
(he who pipped Columba to Lismore’s shore)
who ranged Rosemarkie’s red promontory,
seeking his personal white martyrdom.
At your petals’ tip is a nectar drip:
a signal for the reapers to begin.
Once, you colonised Apollo’s fair lands,
but made fresh conquest from Elysium,
establishing yourself in this terrain;
settling in the Land of Picts, as Bog Star:
light in the darkness of Dalriada.
Your chalice-shaped flowers, honey-fragrant,
scent craggy coastlines, where soft haar descends.
You feistily commune with sharp night frosts.
Your subtle venation reminded saints
of Christ’s stripes, or of their green island home;
Moluag preferred your stamens
to the crowns of all those cremated kings
whose smoke ascended from The Hill of Fire.
Sun of Lismore in Alba; Shining One:
he was determined to take root, like you.
You were transplanted; he was translated.
You were pervasive as that white hot faith.
Until today, I’d never heard of you,
but now I seem to see you everywhere.
14 Monday Sep 2020
Posted Animals, Environment, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography
inPhotos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
06 Sunday Sep 2020
Posted Architecture, Autumn, Environment, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Social Comment
inPhotos by Candia Dixon-Stuart
03 Thursday Sep 2020
Posted Architecture, art, Autumn, Environment, gardens, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography
inTags
Ashdown Park, copse, Craven, cupola, hazel, lantern tower, National Trust, Oxfordshire, Weathercock Hill, Winter Queen
autumnal scenes by Candia Dixon-Stuart
31 Monday Aug 2020
Posted art, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Sport
inDelahaye 135M by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Acrylics.
With permission from a photo by Pavel Nivitski