The Book of Vasche Vexvelt

Vasche Vexvelt. Tale of Camille, The Pretty Witch on A Rainy Day. By Moreno Franco

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Camille, The Pretty Witch on A Rainy Day

Camille, The Pretty Witch on A Rainy Day (1977)

"Nos Études Le Grand Cahier: IV." Conducted by Pavel Lyubomudrov w. Metamorphose String Orchestra.
Featuring Mikael Samsonov on violin. (2017-10-20)


The beginning of a premonition eludes us sometimes.
Sometimes not
The Moment that a glimpsed vision is destined to become the first page in your Large Notebook might be missed

I did not miss mine - I woke up to it.
Ma Jolie Sorcière - La Première page de mon Grand Cahier

An event occurs. . . we feel a strangeness. . .
For a moment we are uneasy and disoriented.
Was that a flash-back? To a memory of something forgotten?
A jolt of De ja Vu?
Or a memory of a scene in a movie? Or a book we have read?
Or a recall of a fragment of a forgotten dream?



She was such a strange girl.
I saw her in the Park - every morning and evening as we went to and from work.
She moved with a self-contained serenity.
Her marble expression conveyed nothing
But her steady and purposeful stride told everything.
That - and her Witches hat.

One day it was raining - and I offered her shelter under my umbrella as we walked.
She inspired this water-color that I painted, way back in 1977.
I never forgot her.

Then - one day, a life time later - I found THE Witch.

Donna Darkwolf on Our Sunny November Sunday Seventh Wedding Anniversary

Donna Darkwolf and Pink Camelias La Strega Donna Darkwolf - My Pretty Witch, and Pink Camelias on our 7th anniversary in 2014.

We made it this far. Seven Years.
My Shiny Wife tells me: "I'm mad about you. MWah!"
She drives me crazy. And I drive her mad.
Donna booked us in to the the very last Orchard Cottage at the end of the row.
Number SEVEN!?  on the Boschendal Wine Estate for the week-end.
"As far away as we can get from other visitors!"  - Donna victoriously proclaims.

We had breakfast on the restaurant patio. After a lazy morning, we are now driving the WOLF back to our cottage, taking our picnic basket with us.
We are not going to sit with the hoi-polloi on the lawns.

We will have our "lazy lunch" at a small dam near our cottage. And crank up the music in WOLF, "so that we can dance - if we want",  my Shiny Wife tells me.

Dressed in her Oriental-style robe, Donna Darkwolf once again blew away the other guests at breakfast.
As we were passing the wall of Camelias, I noticed that the pink of the flowers complimented her robe, and I had Donna pause for me. . .
Click! The inevitable photo-op.

As we dance to our Wedding Bossa Nova wafting out from The WOLF, I am reminded of the words from "My Love" by Florence + the Machine.
Our feet dont touch the ground -

"I was always able to write my way out
Song always made sense to me ///

So tell me where to put my love
Do I wait for time to do what it does?
I don't know where to put my love"

Source: azlyrics.com
Writers: Florence Welch / Dave Bayley

This was just a teaser for the real story, of the REAL WITCH - still to come. Before then there were other events.
Such as a dream encounter which presaged my own >> “Discovering Scheherezade”

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