Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein
All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.
-- C. S. Lewis
Plants that draw insects & other small creatures to them hide a deadly secret. Their allure is death waiting for another resident. Pitcher plants, Sundews, Butterworts & Bladderworts are fascinating in their design, and cunning in their energy and approach. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
The Bald Cypress is a tree of mystery, melancholy, and ancestral knowledge. You cannot visit my beloved Okefenokee and not encounter these beings who live in a liminal state... not merely aerial, terrestrial or aquatic, but one of all. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Mike Goodell, former Everglades Nat. Park Ranger, became lost in the Okefenokee in 1996. Found on Billy's Island deep in the swamp after 41 days. Locals never fully believed his story; tales of beings in the swamp stealing him away, or even abduction are still told. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
A regional style, "Dog-Trot" homes were favored by pioneers of the Okefenokee Swamp. They feature an open breezeway that runs through the middle. A few are still in existence. Photo by Cosmos Mariner. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
Fascinating character from Frances Harper's "Okefinokee Album": Ben Yarborough, who was known not only as a "true swamper", Okefenokee guide, but also a Conjure Man. The story of him sending a conjure telegram is absolutely fascinating to me! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Conjure
Cecile Hulse Matschat, a geographer & botanist, wrote about her time living in the Okefenokee Swamp in her seminal ethnography "Suwannee River: Strange Green Land" (published 1938). One figure she writes about she calls "Snake Woman". (1 of 4) #FolkloreThursday #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it!
-- Mark Twain
Two animal allies in Southern Conjure & Rootwork are the raccoon and opossum. Raccoons, lil'bandits - sly, ultimate survivors; Opossums - cunning of life, death, & resurrection, wise trickster spirit sometimes connected to fire/Sun. (Post: 1/2) #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #AnimalAllies #FolkWitch
The Okefenokee Swamp is home to over 600 kinds of carnivorous plants. Three of my favorites: Swollen Bladderwort, Pitcher Plant, and Sundew. These plants each employ different mechanisms for "eating" small bugs or creatures. Each is fascinating in its own right! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee ALT: INFO!
The black waters of the Okefenokee Swamp call to me. There is no other place like it on earth. Filled with mystery, hidden life, predator & prey, plants that eat meat, and winged friends - its magic runs deep and feral. #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #Witchsky
The prairies within the Okefenokee Swamp are truly liminial spaces within a liminal space. Mysterious & magical areas few get to see - unless they brave a deep trip into the swamp itself. No two trips are the same.
#SwampSunday #Okefenokee #FolkWitch #WitchSky
: Volusia Naturalist / Peter May
Lydia Stone was the definition of a bold woman! She built an empire in the Okefenokee. "Queen of the Okefenokee." My father recalled seeing her as a very small boy, & being awed by her presence. Photo of Lydia with her husband,John Melton Crews, whom she called "Doll Baby". #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle
"He had thought of the South as a sunny, lazy land washed by soft breezes laden with spice and warm blossoms... But now he had discovered another, unsuspected side – a dark, brooding, fear-haunted side…" “Pigeons from Hell,” by Robert E Howard #SwampSunday #Okefenokee
The Seminole Indians tell of an Island of beautiful women deep in the Okefenokee Swamp. They called them "Daughters of the Sun." They wanted to stay with them, but were warned that their own Warriors would return and surely kill them! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #Folklore