snow

it's snowing steady and hard today.

yesterday i had one of those days.

it could have been really really bad.

but it wasn't.

i subbed in my old school.

on the way my car made a big stink-burning rubberish.

but i had to get there.

let me report that this class of sixth graders was pretty challenging

and not at all fun.

after school the car still smelled bad.

i stopped at zone 4 to pick up the milkweed papers.

 the photo above is 'enhanced', below is not.

the sheets are WILD, WILD.

 i hand beat the fiber

the first time in too many years

 and you can see it's way underbeaten,

 but oh, it's beautiful!

after, i went to 'my' mechanic's shop

and the verdict was: a frozen brake caliper.

a woman was there picking up her car.

she turned to me, 

and it was marilyn,

one of my riding coaches from my 30's.

i hugged her probably too hard. 

it was terrific to see her. 

and she drove me the five miles home.

(i was so very happy and still am!)

where i sit, without a car, for the duration.

 my porch, just now

i will be teaching at nancy zeller's beautiful  longrigde farm 

next august,

papermaking!!!

please go over to the website and take a look. 

this year sandra brownlee and i are teaching,

(not simultaneously)

we will make clouds of pulp and 

other delights. 

if you haven't been to longridge, 

and you are considering a summer workshop,

you are in for a treat.

do join us!