A lot
I feel energetic today. Maybe because I finished (or started?) some things that had been on my mind for awhile. Yesterday a walk with a friend along the shore that felt like we were...
Category: Making
Curly dock seed
A new dye plant makes itself known! Bits of information and observation came into alignment and I realized this dark brown flag of seeds was curly dock and that it could be used as...
End of season
The colors. The contrasts. The goldenrod holds it. Summer goes out. Wondering about words. Blogging. Stories. A life.
magic all around
A day of settling in. Cloudy, but no rain. Yesterday, rain kept me inside most of the day except for a walk between showers. I revisited a lot of the works-in-progress I had going...
Home, and it’s September
I am done with traveling and out-of-town visitors for the summer. Relieved. It’s time to settle in and reconnect. I took a very small stitching project with me. A pocket cloth sunflower like Jude...
leaving again
After being home for about a week, we’re leaving again. Returning September 1st. I feel drained. One thing I know is that leaving makes me appreciate this place even more when I get back.
Gardening
Today’s passage from The Dawn of Everything covers new thinking about gardening and the gardeners of the distant past. What if we shifted the emphasis away from agriculture and domestication to, say, botany or...