Posts in the “NATURALIA” category
Lapsang Honey
by angeliska on July 24, 2009
I really only have a teensy snoppet of time just now- but as it happens to be Thursday, (well it was when I started writing this, anyway!) I feel moved to thank my lucky stars for some bits of assorted (…)
Scrapyard Honey
by angeliska on June 4, 2009
The other day we went out to the scrapyard. When your sweetheart is a blacksmith, this is a pretty common field trip. If you’re hunting for the perfect piece of metal junk or odd machine parts, then it becomes a (…)
Excesses + Torn Dresses
by angeliska on May 29, 2009
Hello Mister Bobcat! I love your face. It looks a bit like my face when I’ve had my snoot to the grindstone for far too long, and am yearnin’ to don some tattered finery and tear it up. Oh, and (…)
Blueberry Honey
by angeliska on May 17, 2009
Good things: I received a surprise parcel this week from my long-lost friend Herr von der Goltz- it contained a disc- Music of the Tatar People and a book from 1903, German Wit and Humor. I love the nouveau cover! (…)
Fruit + Flower
by angeliska on March 25, 2009
All of a sudden it is really and truly Spring, and I can’t even begin to say how relieved I am. Not that winter here is so insufferable- (it’s really so mild and short) but ever since we started our (…)
Emergence
by angeliska on March 9, 2009
The Texas Biennial opened this weekend here in Austin, to great fanfare and folderol- very exciting indeed, but most thrilling of all was seeing my sweetheart’s work literally emerge over the last six months from raw elements into an intimidatingly (…)
Lone Grove New Year
by angeliska on January 2, 2009
It’s become a New Year’s tradition for me and mine to go out to Lone Grove, a ghost-town near Llano and my ancestral home. My aunt and uncle live there now, and before them my grandparents and great-grandparents lived there. (…)
Pink Moons
by angeliska on December 31, 2008
Ah, another year has found us struck dumb in awe at the turning- this year a strange one, where the perspective has not yet caught up to me. I have lots of resolutions and goals for this year that I’ve (…)
Winter Solstice – Dark Season
by angeliska on December 21, 2008
Tonight we will celebrate the Winter Solstice, hopefully under the stars with good friends around a roaring fire- mugs of something steaming and spicy in our hands. Right now it’s so cold and blustery outside that my hands are almost (…)
Imps of Winter
by angeliska on December 20, 2008
The other morning when I awoke, a cloud had fallen to earth and everything was enveloped in a thick haze. It made everything seem especially ghostly and mysterious, as if a winter spell had been cast by mischievous imps intent (…)
