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Gentriwitch
@waatlemoen.bsky.social
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Lapsed yogi. Misguided gardener. Books to be read. ʼn Lewe in prentjies.
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Bravery on a Sunday afternoon.
#gardentales
#whimsy
#love

You've never been so nuts about a guy
You wanna laugh, you wanna cry
You cross your heart and hope to die

Till it's over, and then
Shhhh, shhhh

- Bert Reisfeld
A green granadilla plant climbing up the rusty trellis against a cinderblock wall. The trellis is fixed to a wooden plank. The top of the wall is yet to be trellised and the plant has been left to grow along the plank. The purple floweres of a wild garlic bush add a perfect pop of colour in the bottom right corner. The granadilla is all fronds and tendrils in the sun.
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Away with the fairies #smallbeauty

That I would be good even if I lost sanity
That I would be good
Whether with or without you

- Morissette/Ballard
Extreme close-up of the white blossoms on a green basil plant gone to seed. A unflowering lavender bush behind. Food for the pollinators.
December 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Lettuce and baby spinach seeds planted. Rooibos mulch making pretty while one waits and dreams.

Over dreams, I have picked out a perfect come true
Though you never knew it was of you I've been dreaming
- Stevie Wonder
Two round concrete planters filled with damp soil placed in a garden patch in the sun. A small, self-seeded tomato plant has found it's way here, together with purple basil and green basil. The patch is mulched with red-brown rooibos.
December 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Top of the wall now also planted with geranium cuttings from the bush that just won't flower. Foolish fantasy. Heart in hands in damp soil.

What you won't do, to do for love
You've tried everything, but you don't give up
In my world, only you
Make me do for love what I would not do
- Bobby Caldwell
The top of a cinderblock wall planted with sage, rosemary, thyme, geranium. Fragrant green leaves, no flowers, back by vibracrete and barbedwire.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best

- Sager/Hamlisch
Close-up of the birdbath in previous picture. Also seen is a wilde als/african wormwood bush, flourishing in the dappled sunlight.
December 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Mr Black, OG of the block, has come for drinks at the pool. Ooh la la. My heart's tail is swished.
A black cat has stretched over a gutter, garden rocks and concrete blocks to lap water from a birdbath made of an old steel dish with a lid. The cat is surrounded by lavender, spearmint, ginger and plectranthus plants, also vibracrete, barbedwire and a black garden drum beyond. His name is Mr Black and he is swishing his tail.
December 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Orion. Maybe. Also, losing my words

Navigating the empty spaces where the lovely bright words I think I knew left a weak trail before flickering out.

Zoonn in for stars on a quiet Saturday night, mid December.
A photograph of what I think is Orion... the Three Sisters or Orion's belt is my marker. I may be horribly wrong. A scattering of stars in a clear night sky striving to be black but for the perpetual light pollution from the suburbs below.
December 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Seeking out my one true love today. Let's see if it takes me back.

And now, Yoga
- Patanjali

#yoga🪷
A blue mug of coffee and a cream, blue lotus patterned, rumpled yoga mat bag on a wooden laundry stand. A peeling yellow balcony wall behind.
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Incense and rain
Rain after sunset. Grey clouds hang low over a horizon lit pale yellow by streetlights. A landscape of trees, rooftops and a few lit windows in the foreground. The light pollution touches the clouds.
December 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Two sparrows in shadow

Take me away from all this death
- Bram Stoker
Under the shadow of clouds before sunset. Two Cape sparrows on the naked branches of an avocado tree which rise beyond the leafy branches below. A white pitched roof building is seen in the shadows beyond the green of the leaves. A smoke blue mountain rises beyond and the darkening blue sky is being covered by charcoal clouds, their tops white.
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Summer rain over Bo-Kaap
Houses, mosques on the slopes of Signal Hill, Cape Town with gentle rain falling from a dove grey clouded sky. Dark green trees inbetween and at the top of the slope.
December 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Hey girl, sit down.
- Nina Simone
White and charcoal clouds, plumes across the blue of the morning sky. The silhouettes of btanches and trees below and the wind blows.
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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December 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Love is for the birds

#treepose
#yoga
Come to your breath. Be present. Stand on your own feet. Fly.
Mossy birds with yellow belly feathers perched on the branches of an avocado tree in the morning sun. A clear blue sky and a bit of mountain behind.
December 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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Picture found, credit unknown. Top view of a white cup with a stencil of Palestine in the crema of a black espresso. On a red-brown background.
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Life goes on skies and the smell of rain

And me, ever-changing time
Everything is going so much faster
It seems like I'm
Watching my life, and everything I do
Wonder if the dreams that I believed in
Still come true

- Sager, Bacharach, Conti.
View from under an awning with a gutter. Flaming peach clouds at sunset over a mountain range as the sky closes up. Further along and moments later, cloud going from peach to orange over the range. Dry branches against a patch of open sky, the rest of the sky is grey. Orange sky over a landscape of dark trees. The clouds approach in a loose v-shape, close and grey with pink low-lights. A landscape of trees and rooftops in the foreground and hazy blue mountains in the distance. The clouds are a low, solid rectangle , dark grey with sunset pink underlighting. The sky between the mountain and clouds is a strip of orange haze topped with milky blue.
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Haughty heron on a no fish Tuesday.
#focus
A Black-headed Heron and it's shadow, s-curled for investigation of a molehill on a yellowed field. Three molehills in a diagonal row. A sprinkler watering the field, short green grass coming up. The heron at the molehills, neck stretched straight.
December 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Monday with Sunday's sky

Sprinklers are going on the field, breakfast buffet prep for guinea-fowls and crows. Red fizzpop fire engine lights glow past on the road and only the birds call to each other. It's coding in song, a golden web of connection. Notes to find each other anywhere in the world.
Sunset photo from yesterday evening. The dark silhouette of a big oak tree against a warm pastel sky of gold, orange, pink and lilac.
December 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars or Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
December 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Cool mountain and a comfort of sparrows

Sweet nonsense on a Sunday evening in December as the crows caw and circle once more.
A mountain clouded in soft grey with a little blue sky peaking through. An avocado tree in the foreground, green leaves low, dry naked branches patterning against mountain and sky. A group of deven or eight sparrows scattered on the branches, alive and chirping.
December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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For one who searches for beauty in imperfections, this garden confounds me. It is raggety, resistant to help and suffering for all my bright ideas. Orange jasmine, already ravaged by wind and pests before planting, finds a home.
Rooibos tea with lemon for the what was I thinking thoughts.
A round blue glazed ceramic planter on rambling, leaf-strewn oregano. Yellowing lavender to the right and pest-ridden rosemary against a concrete wall. The seemingly flourishing but not flowering small star jasmine bush is hidden behind the pot. Concrete block stepping stones to the right, and a celery bush going to seed. Some marigold plants have grown from wind-scattered seeds. An orange metalic coffee/tea tumbler infront of the blue pot.
December 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Making space

#yoga

The wind is taking a break and the world exhales after holding it's breath for far too long. The tree is a way station for all sorts of birds. A music box, look-out point, preening post. A meeting place for kindred spirits.
Two small birds, each perched at a distance from each other, high on the avocado tree. Green leaves below and a mountain behind. The bluest summer sky with wisps of cloud.
December 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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Serenity

Take My Love, Take My Land
Take Me Where I Cannot Stand
I Don't Care, I'm Still Free
You Can't Take The Sky From Me
- J Whedon
An empty, bleached blue sky at sunset. The top left, left and bottom left edges of the frame show the leafy branches of oak trees making patterns against the sky. There are more trees in the distance, further along the bottom edge. A small shard -shaped cloud is behind the bottom oak branches to the far left. There is another, bigger shard-shaped cloud at the right edge which looks like the blast-off flames of a spaceship leaving the frame. The clouds are a fiery orange and charcoal grey.
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Rooibos tea with the last of the honey and a slice of lemon. Junked up on coffee, snarling. This gangsta wind 'just don' care' that the little garden needs some love 😠

#decemberwind
#capetown
A cream mug with a black pattern of plants amd a butterfly, also a large loop of a handle. Sitting on a striped tablecloth, it holds hot rooibos tea with honey and a thick slice of lemon.
December 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Vintage moon

If you like piña coladas
And gettin′ caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you like makin' love at midnight
In the dunes on the cape
Then I′m the love that you′ve looked for
Write to me and escape

- R Holmes
An orange moon looking full, waning gibbous, in a charcoal night sky with orange tints. White and gold lights on the horizon, the foreground at the bottom of frame is black with the silhoutte of a big palm tree meeting the moon on the right.
December 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM