M EDIEVAL HERBALS are things that delight me .. old compendiums of collected folk knowledge about plants and how they can help us, filled w...

S COTLAND-IN-SPRING ... this evening there are dripping birds singing evening songs in the dripping leaves as the sun blinks a few times be...

♥ ♥ ♥ Happy Easter friends! ♥ ♥ ♥ Two egg tales for you today ... First a few pysanky ~ Ukrainian easter eggs, decorated beautifully usi...

A BENT AND STRANGE GIRL with legs inspired by my words in the previous post... that perhaps one day my legs might curl up into a circle an...

W HEELED HOMES stir something in me, something that is perhaps a mixture of delight in memory, in the imagery of wheels and in all things n...

P ARCEL TAPE and cobbled-together ideas of make-do animation studios have, in the past few days and weeks, been sensibly hurled into the R...

Y OU KNOW when you stumble across another person's work and you are drawn into their world in a tumbling ecstasy of combined respect at...

T HE HAND is a wonderful instrument, linked to the mind as if hand and intellect were two halves of a hinged tool, one edified by the other...

I T'S JUST a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-f...

T HESE BRIGHT DAYS have called us outdoors into the hills ... We have walked lots of miles carrying just a camera and a bag of raisins, and ...

K AKUARSHUK'S TALE speaks of a time long ago when women got their children by digging in the earth. The would pry children loose from t...

R ABBIT SKULLS with long curled hollow grass-chomping teeth and little delicate snap-whispers of leg bones can be found lying all over the ...

T HE SMELL OF SPRING is here and has brought a wonderful uplifting sunshine with it. We have walked around the hills scarf-and-gloveless an...