rainy day

i love weather
the changes 
and these few pictures are NOT
are decidedly not what today is.
 anyway, fist cutting 
should be all done and gathered in
and new growth well underway
 but i loved these large square bales
(yes, i know they're not square)
taken in the early morning sunshine
here:
all good farmers got in their hay
even this youngster
but
this is how things look today
 only more gray and less
as the rain decrees.
 practicing with a horn bag pattern,
and amused by how my understanding is
different from jean's 
but they all work out
maybe it's like the plethora of ways
to make a potholder or a needle book?
anyway,
i'm putting the textblock together for this cover
 i stitched it to ecoprinted flax cave paper
this book will go 
directly 
to the morgan for a show
focused on eastern papermaking.

it IS hot, and humid

what was i thinking when
i wrote a friend today:
it's hot, but thankfully not humid.
fool!
it IS hot AND humid!
 this was the ecoprinting
that resulted from
a prunus shrub and st john's wort
amazing bits of blue and green
 the neighbor got a few bales in so far
 i walked before sunrise and oh,
how i miss my best friend
 life is lonely without wendy
i notice it now so much.
 yesterday i spotted a brilliance
lapis flashing quick! quick! quick!
so just after the sun rose
i waited by the box
where they are nesting.
waiting and watching me
who was across the road
inside a bush
my neighbors all know
that i do some odd things.
lurking in the front yard
camera in hand
before the farm machinery start up
yep. it's me.
~~~
grand news!
i heard from susan byrd today
(sort of perfect for a woman who
 started her day with an eastern bluebird family)
that her book on shifu
has been announced (i knew it was at the publisher)
YAY!