Around here
White starry asters are now blooming in the front garden. And echinacea. And one late cranebill geranium. I wanted to replace the globe thistle at the end of my perennial rock garden. I tried...
Category: Making
September
It doesn’t seem like we really had summer this year. It was 47 degrees this morning! But it’s September, and I welcome the new month. I am really enjoying the circle garden. The native...
A book of paintings
Something different. A friend organized a bookbinding get-together on Tuesday. I had accumulated some watercolor paintings that I’ve been doing for over a year. And I had instructions for a single sheet binding using...
“patience, which brings peace to one’s fingers”
I’ve finished attaching seven houses to their backing, five to go. Although I may decide to go back and stitch on these “finished” ones here and there. I am finding this project more and...
Gabriel’s quilt
It’s so rainy and overcast, I’m in a bubble of cloudy weather. Better than being under a heat dome. I don’t spend much time in the garden though, too wet. I hope the seedlings...
Stitching houses
I’ve decided to handstitch the houses on to the backgrounds. I have three done, almost four. The colors look washed out in the photos below. They are much more interesting in person, I think....
Stitching fervor, and some silence
My winter of making squares has come to an end. My spring of patching them together is beginning. I subscribe to India Flint’s Substack “floribundineum.” Today she posted this Wendell Berry poem. I liked...