WOODCASTLEs

RUNNER in the Snow ❧ And there was an unlooked for guest, a small young Hare to take the quest, And she remembered then his face, beneath last years fall of leaves. A little leverett, bereft, born too late, so sadly left, but seen by chance. Compassion in the great ones glance. ❧ (Jeremy Wyatt) • ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - LINK IN BIO https://www.instagram.com/p/CqlUn-NIHEB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

NIGHTFLIGHT The rains fall on that mountain high
and soak the ashen earth
then wash into a small ravine
that widens to a narrow stream -
my heart and blood flow with it, nigh
upon a gliding mirth.
Then suddenly, it turns to wrath
becomes a river wide;
the torrent cuts a canyon path
into the mountainside
and digs into the world deep
and chisels through her bones
and courses through her weathered vanes
and echoes in her groans.
The river and my blood flow through
the underground below,
in silent limestone caves, alight
with glow-worms in their cavern-night,
emerging at the ocean blue
to join the ebb and flow …
(Marcus Eliot) • 🌃 ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqcTlTkIJxV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

MERIDIENNE Took designers a proactive interest in the ancient world? Since ancient Egypt, Greeks and Romans loved it?
A méridienne has a high head-rest, and a lower foot-rest. They were popular in the grand houses of France in the early 19th century. Its name is from its typical use: rest in the middle of the day, when the sun is near the meridian. • 🛋 22 x 15 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqAS6YIIpob/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

MOUNTAIN NIGHT At the top of the Mountain there is a Lightness in the air
Sounds of the wind speak to the crags of the Mountain
In echoing silence and soft murmurs, Whistling an eerie tune
That shakes the souls of Men, to the Ground as it reaches their ears
Burdened down by the struggle of the Journey, They don't realize
That they Stand within Lightness
(ShamusDeyo) • 🌌 ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5tc8bIlnT/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

COFFEE GRINDER Ground coffee deteriorates faster than roasted beans because of the greater surface area exposed to oxygen. Many coffee drinkers grind the beans themselves immediately before brewing. Manual coffee grinders have been largely supplanted by electrically powered ones where the object is simply to get the job done. • ☕️ 16 x 20 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpwowgBI9lN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

BOO Two years old curious toddler with limited vocabulary … "Boo!", "Kitty!", "Mike Wazowski!" • 👶🏻 ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpn1IqjoWRN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

LIGHTHOUSE II If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.
(Munia Khan) • 💡 ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpitFFVIJou/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

CHARCOAL IRON Monday, day off, housekeeping, ironing … oh how we love it ... though ... imagine you have still this metal pan filled with hot coals. • 🔥 15 x 13 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpcBkmPISYH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

OCTOPUS Octopuses are tough - and not just in the sense that they can take out sharks (both real and computer generated, as in Mega Shark versus Giant Octopus). They're almost pure muscle. With tridirectional muscles in the arms, they're a tad less supple than a well-marbled sirloin, to say the least (though certainly a lot more healthful). So over the centuries, people have been finding ways to make them a little easier on the jaw. (Katherine Harmon Courage) • 🐙 29 x 27 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpW7QTwoCL_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

LAST HOARFROST By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.
(Neil Gaiman) • ❄️ ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQigpKICdP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

BOSS “Mesa no carrrrrrin' about the Naboo. The Naboo think they are so smarty. They think their brains so big.“
(Boss Nass aka Rugor Nass) • 👹 16 x 29 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpLWUTloMR4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

SNOWLEOPARD And then there was the small matter of the snow leopard, whose terrible beauty is the very stuff of human longing. It is, I think, the animal I would most like to be eaten by. (Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard) • 🐆 24 x 19 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CpE2GaHIQ9p/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

OLD COUPLE Find a partner who can stay at your side even in your worst day. Those are the one who are for keeps. • 🛋️ 26 x 19 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co9Gka1oxMa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

TREE V Whoever has learned how to listen to trees no longer wants to be a tree. He wants to be nothing except what he is. That is home. That is happiness.
(Hermann Hesse) • 🫒 ∅ 27mm (1,06“) watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/Co1WrIGIaMy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

TABLE LAID This seems to be a place setting for a delicious dessert. • 🍴 28 x 30 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CowTKiOIzMa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

GAMORREAN A species of tall, strong bipeds, the Gamorreans had porcine traits, like an upturned, large-nostriled cartilaginous snout, jowls, and upturned tusks. Jabba the Hutt employed a gang of intimidating Gamorreans. • 🪓 14 x 27 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CorHBrfogGJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

LION
A lion's strength does not lie in its roar. (Matshona Dhliwayo) • 🦁 20 x 24 mm watercolor miniature. Originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de - link in bio 🔍 https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZFOjqIfY9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=