Showing posts with label Savannah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Savannah. Show all posts

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Dana's Book of the Dead


 Since Wyrd Trees and Mystic Caverns I've been going through my many photographs, (nearly twenty years worth), and put together a little paperback picture book, Dana's Book of the Dead. It has pictures of cemeteries, memorials, and tombs from The Ancient Burial Ground in Hartford to Savannah's Bonaventure. There are a lot of Pennsylvanian graves in between, particularly Gettysburg, as that's a favorite place. 

Dana's Book of the Dead

Now I'm working on Delightful Dolls with Dana. It's another photography book full of doll auctions, shows, and museums. There are many drool worthy dolls and displays. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Wyrd Trees


 Available in all formats on Amazon Wyrd Trees is twenty years worth of mysterious trees from across at least five states. 


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Had so much fun I'm working on Mystic Caverns now. 

Friday, July 26, 2024

The Oak


Darling little acorn, perfect and true,
how I adore you. 
I'll put you in a pot in the sun, 
loving you is fun. 
A green sprout, you've started. 
Now, I'll plant you beneath my window, 
we shall never be parted. 
I will climb and hang from your strong branches. 
You will watch while I take my chances. 
Together we will grow. 
Always, I'll love you so. 
I know, I'm just a girl, 
you are so much wiser than me. 
You will house birds and bugs, 
I will give you hugs. 
Even if I move away, 
my love for you will never sway. 
You and I are one forever like the winds. 
Around you I dance, my true love, widdershins. 
My, Oak, if you were only a man and not a tree
oh, how perfect it might be. 

 

Friday, July 14, 2023

Dreams 7/14


 Couple of dreams, strange as ever: first, I was working in an old general store in the country with another woman with gray hair and a plump blonde. We wore uniforms that looked like old-fashioned German peasant dresses. This dream got pretty dirty, so I'll go to the next which was longer and stranger. 

I was staying with some girlfriends by the sea. I didn't know any of them in real life. The boy who played the protagonist in AHS, NYC befriended me, the one who it ended with, who impregnated Ear Muffs from SCREAM QUEENS via turkey baster. Anyways, first, I took him home, and it was wyrd as we ascended the dark wooden stairs to where I was staying, we were under water, and my fish, Felix, who was now, as big as a cat, was swimming around the boy. I told him to watch-out for Felix. I wasn't sure he liked him. Afterwards, he took me to a lighthouse, which happened to be a pub. We ordered some food, and I ordered a pitcher of pina coladas. Then, I saw my girlfriends, so was hanging out with them. Now, the boy, and, no, I can't recall ever knowing his name, introduced me to his friend, an older man with dark hair. He was standing by a small slot machine that I was playing. It had a Jesus theme, and I won a stack of money, so I paid the bill. The boy then asked me if I wanted to go to The Phone. I had no idea what he was talking about, but it was an old phone booth, still there, in the lighthouse. That's when he grabbed me and started kissing me. I was trying to fight him off, but he wasn't taking no for an answer, and I had to seriously jack him up. 

Sunday, March 12, 2023

Dreams 3/10

Dreamt I was in a familiar place, but nothing was what it seemed. It was either Gettysburg, New Orleans, or Savannah, I think, in that order. I was walking to a party, on my way to a big white house that I knew well. It was a costume party, and I was dressed in black with a cape, wig, and make-up. What's more, I had a matching doll, dressed just like me. She was a big boudoir type of doll. Some man stopped me along the way, but I can't recall what he wanted. By the time I'd gotten to the house everything seemed different, so I thought I was lost. It was my friend Yvette's house, the blonde English lady from Most Haunted. No, I don't know her, but we were apparently friends in the dream. I went in the house and was assured that I'd come to the right place. The dining room was sparse, bare wood, much like a country farm house. It was not decorated. I sat down at one end of the table and was talking to someone. The place was filling up, and I went to the other end of the table, leaving my doll behind. My friend, Darcy, came in, and I was reminded that I had to get back to my own house, so hurried away, leaving my doll behind. When I got home all my stuff was piled up in the parlor as I was moving. There were a lot of people there. The reason I'd come home was to pick up a bright green briefcase that was on a heap along with my other belongings. It contained my jewelry, and I was afraid it could get stolen, so I grabbed it and left. Then, I was on my way to another party. Seemed like old times. This house was a red brick, and my friends, Denise and DJ, from school lived there. I also had cousins, David and Denise. Anyways, their party was really hopping, spilling out the door. Some guy commented on my wig saying it was made out of chicken legs. I saw DJ and asked him if I could hide my briefcase, there, and he said I could. 

Sunday, January 15, 2023

Dreams 1/15


The following dreams took place in Savannah. In the first dream I was oddly burrowing into a house from underground. Once I got there, and looked across the street, I noticed that Ron and two others, who I don't think I know, where on the back porch of the house across the way. Their heads were popping up out from underneath a tarp and framed. I hollered, "Hey, you've got the wrong house!" 

In the next Mummy and I were walking through Savannah on the way to my friend's birthday. Mummy was wearing slacks. The house was a slim three storey red brick with shutters. My friend is real, and this is not the house she lives in. I've changed her name to protect her from my dreams. We walked up the stairs to a tight little verandah encircled with windows. It was dark, but painted fantastically. There was a wooden shelving unit that ran beneath the windows, and she had her own Tarot cards set-up for me to read. They weren't her real cards. There was also a loveseat  and not a lot of people were there. The Tarot cards were very large, bigger than Crowley's. Most of them had pictures on them. I remember one had a big sparkly gingerbread man. I believe that was the basis of the reading, but I could be wrong. I do remember a beautiful tall red bricked house, a lot like the one we were in, came out as the best she could arrive at. I told her, that wasn't bad. Her boyfriend, and I'll call him, Pete, came over and laid her card down as the significator. She was wearing a white dress, sitting, smiling, and you could see her calves. The cards rolled out, but I don't remember them until she laid down her final outcome card and it was a close-up headshot of Miss Piggy wearing mirrored sunglasses. By this time the place was beginning to fill-up, and I couldn't find Mummy. I was looking, and figured she went shopping and would be back. In the meantime I was downstairs and somebody was offering me a big clear plastic tub full of cookies, but they were more like candy, and amazingly realistic. I was looking and looking when some dark haired guy in a white sheet asked what I was looking for. He was sitting in a chair next to me. I told him "A man to bite his head off.". He laughed. I chose, and said, "Oh, no, that's a nun." I had picked her up, (felt more like hard candy), and put her back, even though I'd touched her. Then, I spotted a beige man and picked him up. He was incredible: bigger than the nun. He had long flowing hair that seemed to be caught up in the wind. He also wore strange crutches that seemed to be growing up into his legs like tree roots and a tattered shirt. His legs were actually missing, and his wooden crutches almost became them, like an Ent. By this time another man had replaced the guy in the sheet. This one looked Latin and had beautiful curly dark hair. He knew who the little legless figure was and pointed to a glass display case with a doll, who was a bigger, full color version, of my cookie/candy man. He said his name, I had no idea. Seems he was some fighter or something that had been set-up. Anyways, I did not bite his head off, but had licked him when the man took him from me, and I told him that I had had him in my mouth. I was back to looking for Mummy. I looked down a short dark corridor before heading back upstairs. The ceiling was painted yellow with black cryptic symbols. There was a woman, there, dressed in blue, with short dark hair. She was eating something, and told me that my friend was abused by her boyfriend, and it was horrible. I could not find my friend. I went upstairs, again, to the top storey. It was amazing: the whole place, including a bed in the middle of the small room, was covered in green tarp, so the room looked like a topiary, only maybe not very comfortable. The bed also had some white striping. I saw Pete, and he told everybody to get-out, and everybody started leaving except for me. They were pouring out. I found my friend, and she was clutching me so tightly as not to go. I told her I hadn't given her her birthday gift yet and wasn't going anywhere. She was dressed in white like on her card. There was a little pink dollhouse doll, Pinky Pink, and a big raw amethyst crystal ring encircled with marcasite, that I told her was from Mummy. I also told her to hit Pete in the eye with it, and that she could always come with me.


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