In rural Scotland you will stumble upon isolated houses in the most breathtaking locations and I entertain myself by making up stories about what the lives of the people inside are like. E.g. Byron and Mary live in that house with a Jack Russell named Rufus. Mary makes the sweetest blackcurrant pie and Byron takes his boat out nightly to placate the loch monsters with said blackcurrant pie. Loch monsters love pie, if you didn’t know. Rufus warns the couple of the land creatures that creep in the fog of the night. They live in contented (albeit occasionally chaotic) symbiosis with the cryptids.
ANNE CARSON
‘The Glass Essay’ from Glass, Irony, and God (1994);
personal photos, original edit
Rothirsch - red deer - Cervus elaphus by Olaf Kerber
it’s been raining non-stop and everything is alive
Lately I’ve been getting most of my pep talks from Mister Rogers.
Wildflowers by Graham Spencer // Mines of the West
Death and Life c. 1908 l Gustav Klimt
✿ Ladies among flowers ✿
Paintings by Wilhelm Menzler, Hans Zatzka & Charles Amable Lenoir