All Soul's Night Greetings

To mark All Soul's Night I took a ride with Baba, in her black swan, to the Isle of the Dead and met the Queen of the Serpents who guards the entrance to the underworld. I took a small vile of pure Castalian Water, collected at Delphi and we drank to creativity. The Serpent has blessed all travellers on the Soul Food Silk Way.

While Travellers celebrate Halloween and All Soul's Night le Enchanteur wanders deeper into the Serpent Queen's Cave, on the Isle of the Dead, to see her world. She is dazzled by the beauty of the Queen and her Treasury. The Queen has secrets to share.

Iris Love

copyright Monika Roleff 2005.

Pregnant With Possibility

The Amazon Queen takes her place on the Golden Chair, expectant, filled with a sense of creative possibility.

Plans,

Unable to sleep last night I finished a drawing/study for the sculpting I intend on doing next week. Even if it means booking off from other engagements. The base is rocklike because I intend for it to be an actual rock on which I will, using it as the base, sculpt in terra cotta clay with a wire frame for the figures. I will use metal to bond the two on the surface, probably in a dark patina.

Soul Hands For Leonie Bryant

Butt-erflies

These butterflies I drew for the express pupose now grace the back of my daughter's lovely sister-in-law Chelsea



Quite thrilling to see your art so permanently displayed.

Heather Gazes Into the Reflective Waters

Dolly Dreams

My cat Stimpson, with his hug-dolly taking a nap, is having dolly dreams.



It was too perfect a moment not to take to a higher level.

Stairs to Autumn

Taken yesterday and realized how far away spring is.

aletta

Enchanteur Kneels Before the Lake's Reflective Mirror

The Healing Power of Green

{Green Revives Spirit}

copyright Monika Roleff 2005.

The Amazon Queen showed off her riding skills at the Gypsy Camp.

Reflective Waters of the Palace Lake

The waters of the lake near the Amazon Queen's palace have the power to reveal one's true identity. The Amazon goes to look in the reflective mirror each day and each day the Raven tells her that they are one. Look into the reflective waters near the Queen's Summer Palace and your true identity will be revealed.

Art and Antiques from Baba Yaga

Travellers who made their way to the House of the Serpents in August might well be interested in acquiring a serpent lamp stand, with three designer shades from Baba's Warehouse. Perfect gifts for Halloween and All Soul's Day. The foot, retrieved by one of Baba's knights, belongs to a traveller who didn't make it to the House of Serpents.

By night this designer, Soul Hand Candle Holder, in Red Boots, will illuminate your manuscripts and art work. By day they will do the bidding of their owner and guide them safely to the Gypsy Camp. They will be a match for any of the indentured hands in Baba's house and will make sure their owner is protected from any unreasonable demands.

These hands will go to the highest bidder. Make the best, non monetary offer, to the Amazon Queen and she will command these hands become your servant.

Footsies

I've changed the video on my video page. Have a look: http://sky.prohosting.com/aletteke/myvideopage.html

Thanksgiving in Canada

Canada is where I live and although it may not be the country I most feel I belong in, it is where I am and so I make an effort to like it and fit in. Yesterday we had turkey at my daughter's with the whole of her family and his. It was lovely.

We do need to sometimes stop and think what we should be thankful for. I am thankful for life,

enough of it that I can still be present with friends and family,

enough that I can still produce things of value to myself and others,

enough that I can still smile and give smiles to those who need it even as I do, or maybe even more,

enough is just that enough, and it is

enough that I am most grateful for, God(ess) willing next year it will still be

enough and not one scrap less, and may it be so also for you and yours.

And I was productive, there are three more collected pages in gif form on my website at http://sky.prohosting.com/aletteke/lukikoko.html



aletta

Dawn dance on The Island

Dawn dance on The Island
Originally uploaded by FranSb.

The priestesses of the Lady dance the hunters' welcome at dawn.

Flowers in the Glow of Summer Dusk

copyright Monika Roleff 2005.

My Aunt Anna's House

My great aunt Anna taught me to read cards. She could speak on herbs and how it might be used to treat whatever ailments we were on the topic of. She was wise and wonderful. This is the house she lived in, on the river, below the dijke. She raised seven children here, and on adulthood each one was bought a house of their own by my aunt to start them off in. Apparently she was wise with money also. Her youngest daughter was a Down's syndrome child and one of my favourite childhood playmates. Even Yvonne became independent, she worked as a nanny. Anna died in her nineties. I inherited two of her espresso cups, on sad days I drink out of those cups, cheering up then becomes an inevitability.



aletta

The Door to the Cave of the Enchantress

New Beginnings

copyright Monika Roleff 2005.

I took this photo on a sunny morning on the weekend

and it didn't work the way I had wanted it to. I

treated it with a few filters and played around

with it and thus came a new beginning for it.