Taexalia
wild.life
Scottish Landscape Gallery
I'm fiddling with my image plugins and trying to discover the coolest way to display a whole gallery of my images... So here's the NextGen Smooth Gallery with some of my landscape and scenery photos taken in Scotland. ... read more
Twitterings
Since Logan discovered the joy of sofa, he has turned into the princess and the pea on his own bed... # February's Creative Every Day Challenge (@leah_art) is Home http://bit.ly/4Yl4wX I begin by clearing clutter and cleaning... # Snowing rather madly! # *speechless* http://scottishroundup.co.uk/2010/02/02/top-nature-green-blogs # BlogMum post: 5 steps to get blogging again http://blogmum.com/2010/02/5-steps-to-get-blogging-again/ (via @blogmum) # I wish there was an option to choose ... read more
Forest Floor
I am the damp dank brown undergrowth
I am the palette of spent life
I am the tangle of the dead of winter
I am the lifeless leaves underfoot
I am the fragrant stench of decay
I am the life that begins in death
I am the humus of ending and ... read more
Thank You
THIRD PLACE
I am quite chuffed to have been placed 3rd in the Nature/Green category of the Scotblogs Awards. My companions in the Top 5 are a pretty impressive bunch! Most interesting thoughts around *being categorised* since I have never been able to squash this blog into one of those niches that bloggers are continually told they should. Perhaps I have organically and naturally grown this blog into a niche without worrying to much about it. Anyway, I ... read more
Twitterings
@blogmum I am standing on the sidelines with my porn porns being your bestest cheerleader. You have made things out of nothing in the past. in reply to blogmum # Dear Saints, keep going and let me have picked a winner just once :)) http://twitpic.com/zogg0 # @blogmum You are not the world's worst person and you know it. Don't let guilt be a trap, you deserve to have a life you like X in reply to blogmum # is awaiting Haggis # There's nithin queerer than folk. # So if ... read more
Pathworking
I sit at the desk typing and I am whipped out of my seat by the sight of a Buzzard. It hurtles so close that I think it is going to hit the window and then it switches direction and zig zags out of the garden, a Crow in hot pursuit. I am open mouthed at this drama and laugh as my hand reaches for the camera as if I have any hope of rewinding the moment. I take it as my cue to get out into the landscape with the Greyhound and see if I can bring something new home. We choose our favourite ... read more
Rise Above It… and other meaningless advice
I struggle to reconcile my expectations of this house, and living here, with the reality we are faced with. I try so very hard not to feel trapped and hopeless about this reality, this situation we were tricked into buying, and which we cannot easily free ourselves from. I feel angry that Fife Council have a postcode lottery regarding the services that deal with this type of issue, and that our postcode is not one of the lucky ones. I feel angry that the boundaries of our home can so easily ... read more
Twitterings
Today I predict more letter writing, more phonecalls and I hope for something resembling justice. # Just remembered a charity are coming to take away the old fridge and other bits. Rearranging order of the day. # @bullyinguk do you have any info on neighbour bullying? in reply to bullyinguk # Signs of Spring? Two Blackbirds mating in the foundations of the new greenhouse # @VidaEvenson my pear tree flowered in October :( in reply to VidaEvenson # For Sale: One life. Everything bar the ... read more
Waking Walking
First Feet Fragment Frost
Crisp White
Crunching
Forth Fog
Shields Shores
Red Sky ... read more
Twitterings
The snow is melting and the weeds are still there # The thaw brings a return to ice for the greenest of travellers - pedestrians. # "What's happening?" - Did I take the red pill or the blue pill? # Right. I thought I disengaged the fruit loop magnet. I don't want to get snarly. # Dear Universe I am placing my order for tomorrow's aroma - flowers would make a nice alternative to bullshit. Thank you. # My iPhone is one of my windows to the world. It is not a ... read more
Wolf Moon Crescent
Wolf Moon Crescent ~ by Taexalia
The New Moon today begins the cycle of the Wolf Moon. It is said that this moon gets its name from the hungry wolves who would howl near tribal settlements in North America.
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I see a wolf standing alone at the edge of the ancient Caledonian Forest. She is a deep memory of a landscape faded. She is looking at the black of ... read more