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Rousham Venus
11 Wednesday Aug 2021
Posted Environment, gardens, mythology, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography, Sculpture, Summer
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02 Friday Jul 2021
Posted by Candia | Filed under art, Crime, Literature, mythology, Supernatural
17 Thursday Jun 2021
Posted Environment, mythology, Nature, Poetry
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adaptation, aspen, bryophytes, clones, cordate leaves, ldge pole pine, lepidoptera, Pando, Pluto, Populus tremuloides, ramets, rhizome, survival of the fittest
Christ died on an aspen cross, woodmen thought.
Maybe that’s why, on slight provocation,
I quake and all my cordate leaves shiver,
so that I am known as ‘The Trembling Giant,’
aka Populus tremuloides.
Before men walked out of Africa and
when glaciers were scouring the planet,
I, Pando, was like a subterranean god –
not Pluto, but Pando, meaning ‘I spread.’
After flames have incinerated me,
my dormant rhizome will regenerate,
like resurgence of an old religion.
In times of trial, I just go underground;
in ideal circumstances, I can host
bryophytes; nurture lepidoptera.
I have the root of the matter in me,
but I share my vulnerability
with my multiple ramets – all my clones.
I haven’t flowered for ten thousand years,
in spite of a rigorous self-pruning.
See where black scars mutilate my white bark.
Invasive lodge pole pine may steal my light
and pocket gophers gnaw my root system,
but I sprout from this volcanic soil.
What I lack in diversity,
I’ll exchange for durability, for
we suckers just plan to stay together,
even when a highway runs right through us.
Master of the art of adaptation,
I will survive when all else is ashen.
21 Friday May 2021
Posted Animals, art, gardens, Humour, mythology, Personal, Photography, Psychology, Sculpture, Supernatural
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christmas ornament, close observation, discovery, happenstance, magic, Sculpture, serendipity, simple pleasure, unicorn, value, worth
Went to a sculpture exhibition this week where some exhibits were tens of
thousands of pounds.
At the end, I wandered into the field where we had parked and saw a table
with plants, which I mistakenly thought might be for sale.
In the bushes beside the table was this little magical object- plastic- attached to
a fir branch which might have been part of an old discarded Xmas tree.
I actually had as much pleasure in serendipitously discovering and
photographing this small talisman, worth about 5p!
Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart
13 Thursday May 2021
03 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
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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.