Longing for autumn.

A primeira vela do outono chegou. É enorme (pelo menos na escala do gato; as cores combinando não foi intencional)

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Beth Chatto Gardens, Essex.

Beth Chatto was an award-winning plantswoman, author and lecturer. Her work at the Gardens began in 1960. She took an overgrown wasteland of brambles, parched gravel and boggy ditches of the disused fruit farm belonging to her husband, botanist Andrew Chatto. She used plants adapted by nature t…

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Midsummer.

Midsummer beauty. On nights like this we used to swim in the quarry,   the boys making up games requiring them to tear off  the girls’ clothes   and the girls cooperating, because they had new bodies since last summer and they wanted to exhibit them, the brave ones   leaping off  the high rocks — bodies…

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Hampstead Village doors.

Truly amazing, four colorful doors. They all call to me but which one to choose? Moving closer I listen intently. Alas, not a sound. Now what should I do? – Happy Chica

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All I ever wanted was a life in your shape

Primeiro café do dia, uma mancha de sol entrando pela janela, um gato preguiçoso se esticando ao alcance da minha mão para uma carícia ocasional, a névoa da manhã se dissipando enquanto as notas de tocata e fuga em ré menor saem das caixas de som do rádio e se espalham pelo ar. O piso barato está de…

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“Come in Love, Stay in Peace”

Brixton, London.

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Where the streets do have names.

Tem feito tanto calor que desenvolvi um certo pavorzinho de checar o app do Accuweather no caso de a previsão ser o Literal Fim Do Mundo. Uns dias atrás eu estava na rua e me vi obrigada a remover meu cardigã. Já é oficial: the hell season is upon us. Wake me up when september ends.

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The White Pulse of May.

The very end of spring is green and white. Country lanes are illuminated with cow parsley, a delicate foam of tiny petals in a sea of pale green. Every year, this is what tells me summer is near. A certain kind of sadness for the dying spring, a certain kind of hope for drier days (warm and li…

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