Category Archives: portals

Marabout

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I’ve been away, updating my first two books, Tangier Gardens and Curious Tales. At the same time I was wrapping up my series, “The Landscape Architect”.

Marabout… represents the diaphanous line that separates fact from fiction in the landscape. And that is what challenged, what fascinated CJ in my first two books.

Marabout!? What’s that?

 

Marabout the photo, courtesy of Jean-Claude Latombe (https://ai.stanford.edu/~latombe/mountain/index.htm), is a small part of the mysterious Moroccan landscape. IRL, you see the outside but have no idea what you will find on the inside.

In Tangier Gardens, CJ learned all about marabouts and their arcane insides. He tried to fit those experiences into his American landscape roots—his culture, his education. The result? Strange landscape stories.

 

Dreams of *Curious Tales* IRL

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And so castles made of sand

Fall into the sea

Eventually

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Mountains Are Mysterious

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They take lives without mercy.

The closer you get to them the more diversified, dangerous and threatening the topography, forests, cliffs, ravines and rivulets become.

Mountains make clouds do things.

Under the forest cloak, the mysteries become all-consuming.

Then how do the mountains turn into something marvellous?

This is landscape.

And this is what Christopher Janus explores in Tangier Gardens.

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The First Grapes

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Grape hyacinth: Muscari armeniacum

In the temperate climates of the northern hemisphere, grapes come early—but not that early. They are a sure sign that the lion of March is gone and spring is definitely here. These grapes come March and April.

But in the northern hemisphere, if you are not in a temperate climate, your seasonal clock may be in for a shock as was CJ in the Mediterranean climate of northern Morocco. He tries to come to grips with these shocks in my novel Tangier Gardens. Read a free Amazon sample via a safe, clean, secure and direct link @ https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv