Brandy Schillace

@bschillace.brandyschillace.com

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Author, Historian, Novelist. New mystery: THE DEAD COME TO STAY; New nonfic: THE INTERMEDIARIES🏳️‍⚧️. As seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE & SECRETS DECLASSIFIED. Bylines @SciAm @WSJ @wired 🧪🗃️Social justice & equity (she/her) #Autistic #NB https://brandyschillace.com/

Cute 7lb 1year old girl cat, black with white mark on chest. She is rubbing my hand and rolling about in my office in the collar I bought her.
AB house tower and a warm Wood garden bench in the sunlight of Brandy‘s apothecary garden. In front we have calendula and feverfew there’s heal all and daisies. In the back there’s valerian and Pennyroyal and skull cap and flowering Xenia’s all within a garden edged by hedges and Willowwood.
Brandy in a pink and white spotted shirt raising her arms like she’s hugging the world (at you, in pov). Behind her is her garden where you see towers of beans, kale and assertion a little bit of corn and tomato.
A small black cat with collar looking out a window at birds
A black cat (small) rubs the hand of a person and rolls around on carpet
A black kitten on a blue fluffy pet bed
A beautiful black cat, male, standing on his back lets with paws resting on knees. He looks up with big eyes as though about to say ‘fascinating.’ He wears a Spock science officer jersey.
A picture from the movie labyrinth with David Bowie and underneath is a title that says you want to reach out and touch everything (from the guardian). Yes. Yes you do. Some prominent things.
Several birds at the birdbath among daisies and other beautiful pink and purple flowers. A Robin is in the pool splashing around. Then we have a baby bird on the edge and it’s Mom comes at the end to give it a little food and to take a drink for herself.
A gorgeous yellow finch at a feeder above daisies and lavender
A green yard with a garden to the top left corner and a green boxwood hedge to the top right hand corner with clover in the lawn. In the foreground, there’s a brick patio surrounded by a stone patio, and four chickens in a line looking for hoppers. Starting on the far left, you have an orange chicken named Beatrice. Next is a barred rock hand named Ruth. Next is a white star chicken named Winifred. And finally, a black chicken named Agnes.
A red combed barred Plymouth Rock he hiding out underneath a table. She looks like she’s in a planter box.
A new garden bed, this one surrounding a pear tree. We have eggplants and dill, cucumbers, climbing up a vine, trellis cherry tomato plants and strawberries.
In expanse of kale and greens and bright orange nasturtiums inside defense
A well planted plot inside fence with little terraces made of Willow, edging, brick and paving. Beans on obelisk, trellises, fennel and dill, enormous tomato plants, nasturtium and borage
Brandy looking a bit like a gunslinger in vest and long duster, a leather hat and hands at hips in front of broken windows
A black cat in harness who is sitting patiently because a leaf fell on his leash (or got tangled and made a drag). Greenery behind him.
Dancing Skeleton painting, which can be viewed at this gallery link. A skeleton appears to be dancing of a corpse, oil on canvas. https://www.valleyhouse.com/detail.asp?artworkid=11934
Two pink-purple drinks with lemon peel and lavender flag on a black table with fern and porch chairs to rear
My handwriting in notebook with waterman, lamy, the good blue pens with my glasses and a water bottle sweating a lot
Brandy’s handwriting in a notebook with her fingers threading the page. A vermouth ad is on the table and you can see two of her pens.
Handwriting in a notebook with fountain pens on an outdoor table among sunlit greenery.
An up close side view of a chipmunk with huge cheek pouches in the grass
This is a chipmunk up close. His cheeks are so full that his face is distended.
An up close picture of a chipmunk with full cheeks standing on the iron bar of the birdfeeder. There are some lovely green plants all around him. Up close looking at you straight on. You can see one of his little feet.
headline from new scientist says remote controlled cockroach Canal breathe underwater
Sunflower sprouts in a potted snake plant.
Sunflower sprouts
A porch scene. In the rear, there are two wicker chairs with cushions backed by trees. On the coffee table are two orchids and there’s a fern behind that. There’s a rubber plant to one side a green cushion to the other and you can see Brandy‘s feet in her slippers perched on the coffee table, to the side table is
A view of the porch with wicker chairs in the rear, and back by the flowering magnolia tree. Light falls on the blooming white orchid, and also a potted plant with pink flowers.
A mixture of successive plantings of perennials. These provide color almost all summer. There are cone flowers in bloom just now, and lavender. In the back is tick weed and also Joe pie weed both of which will bloom in a little bit. There are other items that have not yet opened sunlight falls on the colors which are red and fuchsia
Little green sprouts under a mesh protective barrier in the front bed with cone flowers
An up close picture of an herb garden separated by bricks. There are black slats that say things like rosemary, chives, and thyme. In the far back is a wall of greenery that is lemon balm. We have rosemary in front porridge in the rear and chives and thyme as well.
A black cat playing in lavender
A plate of handmade ravioli against a floral tablecloth
A porch surrounded by greenery. Two wicker chairs with floral pillows — you see the edge of Brandy’s mug and her slippered feet propped up on coffee table.
A large black cat with a collar standing on a rock among blue borage and lavender
A yellow plate featuring crispy skin but succulent duck breast in cherry vinegar reduction and cilantro chutney with wild rice salad, crispy glazed potatoes, and the orange nastersium flower
Potatoes cooking n cast iron; see next photo alt for process/recope
A patio surrounded by grapevines with a yellow umbrella. On the table is a sun hat, writing implements, and a notebook. Underneath the table on the brick patio are two chickens.
A large black cat on a purple chair chasing his tail
A lovely blue room with paintings on the walls and a window facing east with a gauze curtain over it. It has a Boho feel. There’s a chair in one corner and a daybed in the other with the sheepskin on it and a coffee table with tulips. In the chair is Darwin a black cat. On the sheepskin is Wallace another black cat.
Brandy sits on a floral outdoor sofa. She has one hand on her face and is grinning at you. Her hair is sort of all over the place.
Two black cats wait for their human to deliver the tuna. The slender bodied one is Darwin, he has round eyes and stands on his hind legs at one point. The heavy body one is Wallace. He weighs more politely. They are both vocalizing.
A tiny black fluff. A little kitten sitting so close together that he looked almost round, with big ears and big eyes, staring up at you and being the cutest thing in the entire world.
A lovely porch corner in morning sunlight. A wicker chair. With a floral cushion that has a nice round Tubby happy black cat sitting on it. In the foreground, our fern leaves and in the background is the overhanging tree, which is a magnolia. the light is perfect.
The tomato plants getting bigger, the summer pea is climbing the obelisk, and my broccoli under their containers to keep out the bugs
A black chicken and a white chicken on a brick path that runs through a garden planted with various kinds of herbs, mostly green, with white flowers. The valerian had pink flowers when in bloom and the penny royal will have pink. The B bomb will be red. In the back are Zenia and in the center part is sweet Woodruff.
A beautiful backyard. It’s a long back garden with lush green grass studied with clover. In the four are stones that have been laid out as a path and standing on them are four chickens, a striped one, a white one, an orange one, a black one. In the distance, you see two of the five gardens. The vegetable garden, which is enclosed and behind that a yellow umbrella and patio. To the left is the apothecary garden, of medicinal herbs. And then in the corner, a hand built shed.. Evening light is falling, and there are patterns of sun and shade on the grass.
Beautiful bright cone flowers of stunning pinks and reds with black eyed Susan and lavender and yarrow (and stuff I can’t even name)
A reddish ink bleeding the corner
Randy I’m fedora and scarf tie with striped short, and the cafe is behind her along with—weirdly—a sign pointing “Up only’ with an arrow. Like it’s saying something profound.
A black bowl filled with small red and purple berries. Behind it is the bush tree itself with green leaves and the berries.
Clouds move swiftly across an early morning sky. There is a tree in the lower left corner, and the top of a light post in the center with a Robin sitting on top and singing his little heart out.
Slow moving clouds across a morning sky
In the background is a purple chair against a yellow wall. In the fore is a blue brocade ottoman and I am slowly dragging the green silk tie from my robe across it. In the video you see, out of focus, a black cat enter the room. But SURPRISE! The cat who attacks the tie is much closer! Darwin leaps up, a black cat with round green eyes, and swipes.
Three happy chickens with bright red combs looking at my hand
An all inclusive pride flag hung vertically with the Peculiar Book Club blue logo with squid and brain below
A fabulous clay porcelain vase that is a smiling Medusa and the snakes are so cute and different! Blue green with little scales and a few with mouths open
A patio with seating and a pergola. It’s backed by short, boxwood, hedges, and pots with all sorts of plants.