I can't love this more

Water Revenant

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Creatures of Google Maps I

Belvedere!

I learned this word in H. G. Wells' The Invisible Man. I then encountered it in my next book, Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler. I've never heard it anywhere else [except in Ace Ventura].

Coramandel!

"My mother's mother was a Bird."

Fairy Terns

A SEA KOVE List

some Goya for the season:

Magic Yaupon Followup

Magic Cicada

Tony Fitzpatrick

Theics Only

The Beautiful Yaupon

[Ilex vomitoria] a nice drawring

The unofficial [and arguable] mascot of coastal NE NC. The leaves from this scrubby tree make a wonderful tea. Dry in an oven til brown/black/sultry black and sable/crispy dead feuillemorte. (Do not eat the berries; they're an emetic; whoops)

Here's one, matured!

Here're some mature secrets!

There's a fine line

Yaupon

Live Oak

Here are some "Black Drink" ceremonies!

"Dipper (drinking cup) made from lightning whelk. Gulf coast ethnographic accounts describe shell cups being used to consume the Black Drink, a strong tea made from the yaupon bush."

Yaupon Spokesman

"In 1814 Osceola and his mother moved to Florida alongside other Creek Indians. In adulthood he received his name; the name Osceola is an anglicized form of Asiyahola; assi, from a ceremonial yaupon holly tea or "black drink" and yaholi, the name of a Creek god intoned when the drink was served."