Posted April 13, 2011 at 2:32pm
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Succulents 01
Started getting into buying old pots off of ebay and filling them with interesting succulents.
FENESTRARIA AURANTIACA
ECHEVERIA CLAVATA
CONOPHYTUM PEERSII
ALOINOPSIS RUBROLINEATA
Posted January 30, 2011 at 12:33pm
Posted January 18, 2011 at 12:41pm
fforest
Lurking in the midst of ancient 200-acre woodland on the banks of the River Teifi, is the Fforest campsite. Run by Cold At Night, the campsite offers an upmarket camping experience in a stunning part of Wales.
It’s still camping, but only the best bits. The birdsong alarm call, the bluebell walk to the bathroom, freshly brewed coffee in the morning, kids running through the fields with new found friends, a glass of locally brewed beer or cider at sundown, the sound of crickets at dusk, barbecued food and marshmallows over firepits.
Posted October 6, 2010 at 2:16pm
Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
Andrei Tarkovsky is considered by many to be the most influential Soviet filmmaker of the post-war era. As Ingmar Bergman once said, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” In films such as Solaris, The Mirror, Nostalghia, and The Sacrifice, his poetic, wide-angle shots often resemble still photographs. This aesthetic translates in a series of Polaroids taken by the director in Russia and Italy between 1979 and 1984.
They are collected in a book
Posted October 5, 2010 at 5:04pm
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Posted March 27, 2010 at 9:00am
Gilbert White - The Natural History of Selborne
On the twelfth of July I had a fair opportunity of contemplating the motions of the caprimulgus, or fern-owl, as it was playing round a large oak that swarmed with scarabaei solstitiales, or fern-chafers. The powers of its wing were wonderful, exceeding, if possible, the various evolutions and quick turns of the swallow genus. But the circumstance that pleased me most was that I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.
Swallows and martins, the bulk of them, I mean, have forsaken us sooner this year than usual; for, on September the twenty-second, they rendezvoused in a neighbour’s walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken up their lodging for the night. At the dawn of the day, which was foggy, they arose ad together in infinite numbers, occasioning such a rushing from the strokes of their wings against the hazy air, as might be heard to a considerable distance: since that no flock has appeared, only a few stragglers.
Some swifts staid late, till the twenty-second or August —a rare instance! for they usually withdraw within the first week.
On September the twenty-fourth three or four ring-ousels appeared in my fields for the first time this season: how punctual are these visitors in their autumns and spring migrations!
Posted March 27, 2010 at 8:54am
Edward Thomas - The Combe
The combe was ever dark, ancient and dark.
Its mouth is stopped with bramble, thorn and briar,
And no-one scrambles over the sliding chalk
By beech and yew and perishing juniper
Down the half precipices of its sides, with roots
And rabbit holes for steps. The sun of winter
The moon of summer, and all the singing birds
Except the missel-thrush that loves the juniper
Are quite shut out. But far more ancient and dark
The Combe looks since they killed the badger there,
Dug him out and gave him to the hounds,
The most ancient Briton of English beasts.
Posted March 27, 2010 at 8:43am
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