#appalachiangothic

[heartlikehome]

[doefleshsblog]

[phluiddruid]

Letting my yard go wild was never a question for me. First it was for the flowers, talking up every corner. Then insects came that I've never seen before, everyday - it became like living in an exotic jungle. I brought old wood and rocks to the perimeter and fence line, began finding salamanders everywhere. All thick mats of grass soon laid down blanketing the ground, and there was no high grass to contend with, but an entire world for rodents and snakes to be each others business. There's a blackberry patch in the front yard. Trilliums by the front door.

I found stinging nettle where I had sprinkled seeds into a raised bed too soon before a freeze and forgot about. A year later here they are. It's always amazing when a plant you've yearned for many years finally appears.

I think that the oak branches covered in usnea dropped to the ground by the huge grandmother tree in the back was my initiation to the otherworld of plants.

[lighteraryloredump]

Trying something new! Like I mentioned a couple posts ago, I’m experimenting with using digital collages as a way of constructing environment designs. :) 

something i’m absolutely obsessed with is the combination of southern gothic themes with appalachia-- specifically central appalachia-- so this is a concept relating to that vibe 

[spooky-berries]

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[heartlikehome]

𝚒𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞

[heartlikehome]

I dream of leaving this place sometimes — taking my quiet and quite lonely, little life I've built with me. Move near the water where the waves lap and froth up on my bare feet on the front lawn. I'll sup coffee from the mug you bought me. I'll wish you were here with me — alive.

[heartlikehome]

Drive-bys & Stillframes