Garden days, cloth dreams
Rain. Lots of it. And thunder. I scurried around yesterday afternoon to spread hay mulch and do some ongoing garden cleanup. Harvest the rest of the bumper cucumber crop and remove the dead vines....
Category: plants
October wonders
I ordered new glasses today. A big milestone and relief. It’s a long story I won’t go into right now. I took a late afternoon walk as clouds rolled in. I noticed this view...
Vibrancy
Cloudy day but the tree outside my window is bright. I stitched together two strips of two-inch squares that seemed to belong together. I tried to force some others together, but they refused. Not...
Cyanotype on linen
I really like how this turned out. My first cyanotype on fabric, specifically linen, using leftover chemistry from the goldenrod project. The composition is crowded but it gave me information on how the different...
Dandelion harvest
Alice Fox* on Instagram got me interested in the stems of dandelions. The earlier ones were on short stubby stems, but later in the season I found these very long glossy beauties. They had...
I have a favorite tree
It’s this beautiful old spreading oak in Bedford, New York. Looking particularly stunning in the early morning mist in its fall color.