Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Misasmas, tea and dried herbs.

1. Long shadows and early morning mist.

2. Being brought a mug of Earl Grey tea first thing.

3. The smell of drying raspberry leaves - they are faintly nettley, and faintly fruity.

Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.

1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...