The dark side

Delicious dark ice cream. Frozen banana, some (also frozen) strawberries & blueberries tossed in the food processor. Add raw cocoa powder to taste and perhaps a dash of agave syrup. Whizz. Enjoy.

The dark corner. Making small exhibitions with natural dyeing experiments. It's a vintage pillow case on the wall, dyed with pine cones and gall nuts - gathered in my own tiny woods (as is the table cloth in the picture above). The lambskin is home tanned (recipe: salt, alum, patience & elbow grease). And yes, we do occationally eat our lambs - the ones that tend to grow up and butt you in the butt (like in la derrière). Which is very annoying! I'm speaking from experience here!

Geranium phaeum, very dark geraniums, which are all over our garden right now. They are so beautiful, in their own simple, understated way.

Dark, fat vanilla pods, chopped up for making shortbread (here you can imagine the fragrance of vanilla, mixed with lemon peel and rosemary) ...

... and making embellished shortbread with almost black pansies. (which I'm also going to dye with, as soon as I have gathered enough). Almost, but not too pretty, to eat.

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Twilight: A time of pause
when nature changes her guard.
All living things would fade and die
from too much light or too much dark,
if twilight were not.

~Howard Thurman