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Daffodil on windowsill

subrosa — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:39:27 +0000

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Pretty on pink.

subrosa — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:30:00 +0000

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Primordial fibre

subrosa — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:19:32 +0000

#fibre #spin #spiral #periodicity #periodictable #benjaminkendallemerson #geologist #matter #material #nature #offinefibre #herloom

Practice stitches

subrosa — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:18:56 +0000

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Mini skirt

subrosa — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 22:23:46 +0000

Under skirt.

#treeskirt #miniskirt #under #skirt #underskirt

Lace + light

subrosa — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:38:46 +0000

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A Mt Press

subrosa — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:21:26 +0000

While attending Functional Fabric Fair in Portland this year, I came upon some copies of Summit Magazine, part of Utah State University’s Outdoor Recreation Archive exhibit, and could not forget them.

After some research I discovered the source of their magic.

Jene Crenshaw and Helen Kilness started the magazine in 1955 and worried that readers might not purchase an outdoor magazine run by two female publishers, listed themselves as “J. M. Crenshaw” and “H.V.J. Kilness” on the masthead. “It was a man’s world,” Jene says of the Fifties. “I didn’t resent it. It was just the facts of life.” 1

They published America’s first monthly climbing magazine from a brown shingled house enfolded by boulders, perched on top of its own granite crag above Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. And from 1955 to 1989, they occupied a constant, often hidden, presence in mountain writing. 2

The strength of their passion for the mountains and its people came through in the magazine’s imaginal form.

There have been attempts to revive it. The latest is by Michael Levy who acquired the rights this year and announced that the title would relaunch in 2024 as Summit Journal. He is an editor, writer and climber. It seems his heart is in the same place as Jene Crenshaw’s and Helen Kilness’s.

1 Katie Ives: A House of Stone and Snow. February 25, 2015; Alpinist 49. Retrieved 9 June 2015.

2 Ives, A House of Stone and Snow.

Of wing + web

subrosa — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:32:43 +0000

The spider, dropping down from twig,

Unwinds a thread of his devising:

A thin, premeditated rig

To use in rising

And all the journey down through space,

In cool descent, and loyal-hearted,

He builds a ladder to the place

From which he started

This I, gone forth, as spiders do,

In spider’s web a truth discerning,

Attach one silken stand to you

For my returning

‘Natural History’ E.B. White

walks her talk

subrosa — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:00:37 +0000

I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:

It vexes me to choose another guide:

Where the gray flocks in ferny glens are feeding;

Where the wild wind blows on the mountain side.

What have those lonely mountains worth revealing?

More glory and more grief than I can tell:

The earth that wakes one human heart to feeling

Can centre both the worlds of Heaven and Hell.

Stanzas, Emily Brontë

As fall comes and our place on the earth tilts away from the sun. The wind grows cooler.

Sky blue. Deep blue.

subrosa — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 15:18:00 +0000

@_cbrennan

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Thread of humility

subrosa — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:07:14 +0000

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ celebrates the beauty of nature but doesn’t let us forget we are nature.

‘Leaves’ of grass

subrosa — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 00:21:48 +0000

P 17, Paul Klee’s notebook ‘Nature on Nature’

#leaves #figure #figures #curve #notebook #paulklee #leavesofgrass #waltwhitman #nature #her #form #fibre #offinefibre #herloom