http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ en-us 2010-09-08T23:03:06+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000624.php 1 large glass of locally produced elderflower wine + 2 shots of homemade apricot cordial (apricots, brandy, wine, bridal honey (honey, rose petals and spices)) + 1 shot of Crème de cassis = an unbearable urge to run down the streets, naked, screaming Dionysus' name ecstatically... 624@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ LOL! 2010-09-08T23:03:06+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000623.php Click thumbnail for larger image. Today's local haul which will be turned into personal projects, gifts for friends (the ones who trust my mushroom knowledge, anyway) and homemade risotto.... 623@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ One A Day 2010-09-08T19:50:46+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000622.php Click thumbnail for larger image. Today in a forgotten beech hedge the rabbits came out to play, and in the sun-dappled groves of cliff-growing trees they shared their secret magic with me.... 622@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ One A Day 2010-09-06T23:49:29+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000620.php Six deer in a fucking week. Up until last Friday? Neither of us have EVER seen a roadkill deer before in our neck of the woods (I've been here for roughly a decade, Italics was born and raised here), but, somehow, I managed to find six motherfucking dead deer in... 620@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ Life 2010-09-04T20:49:28+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000621.php Click thumbnail for larger image.... 621@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ One A Day 2010-09-04T19:14:32+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000619.php Click thumbnail for larger image. I have fresh fly agarics hanging from wall to wall like mushroom fairy lights.... 619@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ Cailleach 2010-09-03T18:00:42+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000618.php The funeral of a broken deer found at a crossroads.... 618@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ 2010-09-02T21:50:48+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000616.php Click thumbnail for larger image. In this house? Offerings of sandwiches transcend species. Ask the fox (smoked ham on whole wheat), ask the badger (peanut butter and honey on white), ask the deer (organic romaine heart on handsliced pieces of gluten-free bread).... 616@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ 2010-09-01T17:26:58+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000615.php Click thumbnail for larger image. If I hadn't dropped out of pre-med twice (when I do things I burn my name into the motherfucking asphalt so it ain't forgotten) I might've had my medical degree by now.... 615@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ One A Day 2010-08-31T22:32:21+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000614.php Click thumbnail for larger image. A new deer priestess is born.... 614@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ 2010-08-27T21:16:34+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000613.php Click thumbnail for larger image. The Old Woman, either confident in my abilities to keep up with this pace of life or deliberately positioning my ass for a nervous fucking breakdown (seriously, how much can one fucking person do?), saw fit to send me one of Her (exceptionally expired) deer.... 613@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ 2010-08-27T17:17:52+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000612.php Most days I hope for rain (to finally be given a chance to sit down and begin drafting entries about all of the super-wonderful-amazing shit that's been going down here), but even when it does I'm still outside in the forest with my basket in hand.... 612@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ Life 2010-08-27T12:48:36+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000611.php Click thumbnail for larger image. Fly agaric (amanita muscaria) for the Old Woman's (rein)deer.... 611@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ One A Day 2010-08-25T20:59:29+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000610.php Goddamn son of a bitch, I deserve this effing strawberry beer.... 610@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ Life 2010-08-25T20:32:23+00:00 http://www.graveyarddirt.com/newsprint/archive/000609.php Click thumbnail for larger image. Ms. Graveyard Dirt's way of "taking it easy": creating, from scratch, a two course (one main, two sides, one dessert) roast chicken supper for the entire family (after baking a batch of Ukrainian buttermilk cornmeal muffins - to eat with the strawberry jam - for... 609@http://www.graveyarddirt.com/ The Black Arts 2010-08-24T15:21:29+00:00