Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐

Full moon, winter landscape at dusk, trees, stone circle, man walking by. Painting.

Goodnight.
🖼️ A Walk at Dusk, Caspar David Friedrich.

Album cover showing band above spinning record).

Currently listening: Clannad, ‘Clannad 2’ (1974; 1979 US pressing).

A winter view of a chamber tomb on a rocky headland

It wouldn't be #StandingStoneSunday & Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant without a picture of the incredible chambered tomb of Coetan Arthur on St David's Head 🥰

Browse our splendid #RCAHMW 3D model here: skfb.ly/pEKnE

📷 My own, 2023

Painting depicting women in flowing white gowns dancing hand in hand on lush grass around a tree, which sits in the centre of the scene. Painted in 1913. Thought to be inspired by the dancer Isadora Duncan.

🌿A Song of Spring
by Maximilian Lenz

Grass covered remains of a Roman ampitheatre.

Remains of the Roman amphitheatre in Caerleon, which I visited in 2023. The name Caerleon means ‘Fortress of the Legions.’

A giant serpent coils around a stone circle and worshippers turning to stone; in the centre a beam of light shoots.down from the sky.

🎨 Les Matthews, painting for the series ‘Children of the Stones’ (1977) #StandingStoneSunday

A sketch of Saint David on a hill with a dove descending.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

🎨David Jones, ‘Dewi Sant,’ sketch (1940-49).

A 5000-year-old doorway!

◇ Seefin Passage Tomb, Wicklow Mountains

#archaeology #history #heritage #culture #Ireland #nature

Cat sleeping on sofa.

Henry enjoying his Saturday night.

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

I don't comment directly on politics or world events here, but let me for once express my complete and utter horror at more-or-less everything that has been happening since at least 2023.

Pan plays his flute while Chloe is returned to shore by her pirate kidnappers.

The god Pan can be a trickster when provoked. In the tale of ‘Daphnis and Chloe,’ Pan deliberately frightens the pirates who have kidnapped Chloe with terrifying noises. In response, the pirates ‘ran to arms, and called upon their invisible enemies to appear.’ #BookWormSat

🎨Marc Chagall

Told my dean and my department that I was stepping down as chair at the end of this year; I've done it for 16 years (not unusual where I teach) and it's time to hand over the reins. I'd also like a few years as a faculty member without an administrative role, something I've never experienced.

Folklore lenses the land with story. We take old corpse paths and wonder if the boneyard's iron gates will ward those spirits that did not find rest. We see first growth of bear garlic and think of Ghost Bear, hedge-priest medicine. To walk with folklore is to scuff up the strange. – #CLNolan

Twilight of the Twentieth Century - Culture, Living, Opinion, Paganism, Perspectives, Politics, Religion, U.S. Witchcraft & Pagan News - The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragna...

The Norse myths are laced with a melancholic focus on the end of an age. Karl Seigfried notes that today it also feels as though a way of living is passing. But just as Ragnarök leads to a rebirth, so too might our own times – if we are willing to work for it.

wildhunt.org/2026/02/twil...

#pagan

The only known footage of Margaret Murray (1863 - 1963), the archaeologist and folklorist who penned The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921).

small hours big time out to look for alignments but it's another murky one large cloud with hole go back inside - write "planchette"

27/2/26 - nocturn

Reddish coloured rescue dog standing on a large pile of snow.

Rosie doing her best impression of a noble hound.

Gardening tip while we await the Spring thaw:

Music of the Stones
Christopher Castle

Blue album cover above spinning record.

Julian Cope, ‘Jehovahkill’ (1992; 2018 European reissue). My favorite Cope album — I bought it on CD when it came out.

Illustration from The Willows, a short story by Blackwood, where something only faintly visible moves among the trees

“Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite.”
—Algernon Blackwood

I hope you enjoy it!

Menhir de Keroulic: This three meter tall lonely stone stands at the entrance to a field near Clohars-Carnoët, Finistère. About 200m further up the road, near the bend is another much smaller stone, also pictured on our page. It is south of the road, about 100 m into the vegetation.

Accurate depiction of me trying to put together our department’s class schedule this week.

Wayland's Smithy from The Ridgeway

Postcard showing Le Trepied Dolmen, Perelle, Guernsey

Composer John Ireland (1879-1962) was inspired to compose ‘Le catioroc’ by Le Trepied Dolmen on Guernsey, where he believed Pan had been worshipped. For Ireland, Pan embodied ‘a world of hidden, forbidden beauty connected with Nature.’

group of men in fancy dress... a lot of them have antlers one has a hobby horse

'The players in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance'
John Benjamin Stone, ca. 1900

Weychester has a surfeit of haunted doors. Ways through walls that no iron lattice, no amount of locking will prevent phantoms from using. They phase and float through wood, make tunnels across time. Ghosts are not easily shut out. – George Kindred, 'Haunted Hookland', 1970 #Ghosts

I'm named after one of my Acadian uncles, so one of the funny things that happens over on Facebook is that 'Paul Robichaud' comments on posts by 'Paul Robichaud.'