Bramble Shane
@brambleshane.bsky.social
We are Professional Mythic Artists, Mask Makers, and Naturalists, on the Decorative Fringe of Society, but mostly, we are just gardeners.
Amongst the turning trees, glimpsed at the edge of the seasons, an ancient forest spirit awaits. Autumn Stag available at Mythical Masks, during the 2025 Maryland Renaissance Festival.
August 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Amongst the turning trees, glimpsed at the edge of the seasons, an ancient forest spirit awaits. Autumn Stag available at Mythical Masks, during the 2025 Maryland Renaissance Festival.
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May 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A Classical Green Man masks in the Winter. Whites and blue Oak leaves with Holly, Ivy, Spruce and Mistletoe. The last is painted with bits of powdered Mistletoe. Accented with glass beads for berries. On display and available at Mythicon: Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae this wknd.
February 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
A Classical Green Man masks in the Winter. Whites and blue Oak leaves with Holly, Ivy, Spruce and Mistletoe. The last is painted with bits of powdered Mistletoe. Accented with glass beads for berries. On display and available at Mythicon: Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae this wknd.
We're excited for our upcoming event. MythiCon 2025: A Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae, Feb 7-9, in Gettysburg, PA. We're exhibiting our art as well as presenting two talks. "Living an Artful Life" will be on Saturday. "The History of the Mythic Arts" is Sunday. Masquerade, mermaids, mirth, & More!
January 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We're excited for our upcoming event. MythiCon 2025: A Mid-Winter Gathering of the Fae, Feb 7-9, in Gettysburg, PA. We're exhibiting our art as well as presenting two talks. "Living an Artful Life" will be on Saturday. "The History of the Mythic Arts" is Sunday. Masquerade, mermaids, mirth, & More!
Today's the Day! Hunt the Wren with your cameras! Make the Day a traditional one for walks and birding. Pics of nature and where you go. Winner is best pic of a Wren taken today. Share all your Birding pictures on Dec. 26 Wren Day! See links in comments for our group (Pic of last year's Wren King)
December 26, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Today's the Day! Hunt the Wren with your cameras! Make the Day a traditional one for walks and birding. Pics of nature and where you go. Winner is best pic of a Wren taken today. Share all your Birding pictures on Dec. 26 Wren Day! See links in comments for our group (Pic of last year's Wren King)
Here is our Christmas 🎄 Tree. If you practice the tradition please share yours. Let's make a festive forest using #MyChristmasTree
December 25, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Here is our Christmas 🎄 Tree. If you practice the tradition please share yours. Let's make a festive forest using #MyChristmasTree
"Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Chris, Northern Exposure
youtu.be/Sg8pN4GjvxI?...
youtu.be/Sg8pN4GjvxI?...
December 21, 2024 at 3:07 AM
"Goethe’s final words: “More light.” Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that’s been our unifying cry, “More light.” Chris, Northern Exposure
youtu.be/Sg8pN4GjvxI?...
youtu.be/Sg8pN4GjvxI?...
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This is the real communism, to me
You can measure an economy's actual, real life, concrete health by: are people able to do their own weird shit?
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers
Do they have money to survive doing their weird shit? Do they have the free time to do that weird shit?
Fuck the metrics, just look for the dirtbags and artists and musicians and writers
December 20, 2024 at 1:10 AM
This is the real communism, to me
A Simple Winter Solstice Ritual: A 🧵.
If you do nothing else to mark the longest night, the Solstice Eve, do this. Be still for five minutes of the night and start with one small candle. Let the light grow from there. Blessed days, holy nights.
If you do nothing else to mark the longest night, the Solstice Eve, do this. Be still for five minutes of the night and start with one small candle. Let the light grow from there. Blessed days, holy nights.
December 19, 2024 at 9:36 PM
A Simple Winter Solstice Ritual: A 🧵.
If you do nothing else to mark the longest night, the Solstice Eve, do this. Be still for five minutes of the night and start with one small candle. Let the light grow from there. Blessed days, holy nights.
If you do nothing else to mark the longest night, the Solstice Eve, do this. Be still for five minutes of the night and start with one small candle. Let the light grow from there. Blessed days, holy nights.
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A lovely 🧵....
I've been thinking of how stories, especially children's stories, train human minds towards wonder, empathy, tolerance, curiosity. They aren't didactic; they open doors and say to the reader: 'Go on, explore.' I'd like to celebrate some stories that did that for me in childhood - and still do now...
December 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM
A lovely 🧵....
Thread of unique Holiday music.
Awake Arise: A Winter Album. By Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge, and Sid Goldsmith. It's a marvelous collection of traditional English Folk music for the season, spoken word, and original. Truly a journey through winter to be listened to in it's completeness.
Awake Arise: A Winter Album. By Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge, and Sid Goldsmith. It's a marvelous collection of traditional English Folk music for the season, spoken word, and original. Truly a journey through winter to be listened to in it's completeness.
December 6, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Thread of unique Holiday music.
Awake Arise: A Winter Album. By Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge, and Sid Goldsmith. It's a marvelous collection of traditional English Folk music for the season, spoken word, and original. Truly a journey through winter to be listened to in it's completeness.
Awake Arise: A Winter Album. By Lady Maisery, Jimmy Aldridge, and Sid Goldsmith. It's a marvelous collection of traditional English Folk music for the season, spoken word, and original. Truly a journey through winter to be listened to in it's completeness.
Two little Green Man book marks I did.
December 6, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Two little Green Man book marks I did.
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The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)
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The totally stunning (if a little top-heavy 😂) 12th century doorway into the Church of St. Leonard, Southoe, Cambridgeshire.
Imagine it with a bit of polychromy, too! 🤩
Imagine it with a bit of polychromy, too! 🤩
December 5, 2024 at 3:54 PM
The totally stunning (if a little top-heavy 😂) 12th century doorway into the Church of St. Leonard, Southoe, Cambridgeshire.
Imagine it with a bit of polychromy, too! 🤩
Imagine it with a bit of polychromy, too! 🤩
This morning's grand glow. Good morning from the mountains.
December 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM
This morning's grand glow. Good morning from the mountains.
Reading "The Wild Places" by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and using my drawing of a Green Man as a bookmark. It's a testament to both our connections and losses of wildness.
December 1, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Reading "The Wild Places" by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and using my drawing of a Green Man as a bookmark. It's a testament to both our connections and losses of wildness.
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December 1, 2024 at 3:49 AM
“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
December 1, 2024 at 4:23 AM
“November comes
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
And November goes,
With the last red berries
And the first white snows.
With night coming early,
And dawn coming late,
And ice in the bucket
And frost by the gate.
The fires burn
And the kettles sing,
And earth sinks to rest
Until next spring.”
~ Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Bluesky, looking for a home for an adorable bonded brother and sister born in the same litter in Northern VA. Kitties are 16 MO and need a loving home. These are 2 super affectionate and adorable furballs. Help me amplify this message to find these little ones a home this holiday season.
November 29, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Bluesky, looking for a home for an adorable bonded brother and sister born in the same litter in Northern VA. Kitties are 16 MO and need a loving home. These are 2 super affectionate and adorable furballs. Help me amplify this message to find these little ones a home this holiday season.
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"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools." - Henry Beston (Northern Farm)
The wind has been blowing here on Dartmoor and we're definitely in our winter wools now. Lottie and I wish you a good weekend.
The wind has been blowing here on Dartmoor and we're definitely in our winter wools now. Lottie and I wish you a good weekend.
November 30, 2024 at 5:04 AM
"The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools." - Henry Beston (Northern Farm)
The wind has been blowing here on Dartmoor and we're definitely in our winter wools now. Lottie and I wish you a good weekend.
The wind has been blowing here on Dartmoor and we're definitely in our winter wools now. Lottie and I wish you a good weekend.
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Art by Shane Odom
Art by Shane Odom
November 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Art by Shane Odom
Art by Shane Odom
Last Christmas
Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye
Ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers, quiet as frost
And the wolf stole my hearte,
Fled to a tower out of tyme
Biyonde all the stars.
Seek now my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!
Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye
Ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers, quiet as frost
And the wolf stole my hearte,
Fled to a tower out of tyme
Biyonde all the stars.
Seek now my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!
November 24, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Last Christmas
Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye
Ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers, quiet as frost
And the wolf stole my hearte,
Fled to a tower out of tyme
Biyonde all the stars.
Seek now my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!
Ich gave thee my hearte
But the verye next daye
Ther came a wolf,
Wyth sinews of whispers, quiet as frost
And the wolf stole my hearte,
Fled to a tower out of tyme
Biyonde all the stars.
Seek now my hearte,
Return it within a yeare and a daye:
Thys ys thy queste!
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Reposted by Bramble Shane
