The Lamb
03 Wednesday Mar 2021
Posted Animals, art, Bible, mythology, Nature, Photography, Religion, Supernatural
in03 Wednesday Mar 2021
Posted Animals, art, Bible, mythology, Nature, Photography, Religion, Supernatural
in13 Sunday Dec 2020
Posted Animals, art, mythology, Relationships, Supernatural
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.
22 Wednesday Jul 2020
Posted Environment, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography, Summer
inElvish Landscape by Candia Dixon-Stuart.
08 Wednesday Jul 2020
Posted Environment, gardens, mythology, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer
inPhoto by Candia Dixon-Stuart
23 Monday Mar 2020
Posted Environment, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography
inOr, to be accurate – The Manger, where the White Horse comes to graze at night.
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. All Rights Reserved.
19 Thursday Mar 2020
19 Wednesday Feb 2020
Posted art, Bible, Crime, mythology, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Religion
inGloucester Cathedral
by Candia
31 Thursday Oct 2019
Posted art, Autumn, History, mythology, Photography, Supernatural
inTags
@ The Ashmolean, Oxford
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart