tried to retrieve

friday's and today's posts.

failed.

 sunday to monday

i went to syracuse for a picnic

with a bunch of wonderful bookfolk

 i didn't take this bag

which  holds my swedish bobbin winder

 but i received an admonishion

 i've heard that one before

 a was shown several wonderful books

in the conservation lab at bird library

(and elsewhere)

 discussed the pronounciation of basil

isn't it wonderful?

 oh, those old,

amazing

manuals

thank you 

peter and hope,

david,

hannah,

and bookish picnicers all!

a great jaunt!

missing

ALERT!

I deleted my today blog post. 

AND

friday's post with

many wonderuful responses.

many apologies to everyone.

on the phone
writing a blog post, 
eating supper.
bad combo.

gifts and work

 nature has been generous with gifts

while i was reading on the porch

i noticed a movement

and a graceful, leggy visitor came along.

i was able to sneak off for the camera,

and caught her on the other side of the house.

this morning's visitor(s)

however, 

were NOT welcome

two little brown bats

playing tag in my bedroom.

up at 3:30, tending to bats.

not fun.

 i have been working

 stitching 

on silk and 

on cotton

 and when i need diversion

 i "knit"

the thing is well over a meter now.

~~~

and one more of nature's gifts:

a tiny warrior

who couldn't outrun a car.

paper from place

deckle edges
making paper

from the land,

at long ridge farm,

is coming up

august 3,4, & 5

and nancy tells me there's room

for more students.

here's the info

i'm excited about making paper

from the land 
here

and making a book or two

to see how beautiful plant papers

show themselves off.

tiny moulds
you'll go home

with a stack of paper,

a book or two,

and the knowledge

to make paper by yourself.

a whole bag of tricks.

tall stack of papers
join us at one of the 
most beautiful spots in new hampshire
(yes, really),
i'm beginning to put the mill in order
to travel in the outback
across champ's pond, then
to brattleboro, 
then new hampshire and long ridge farm.
where nancy is playing 
with sheep and color.
and soon,
pulp!

brand new sheet

introducing:

roz making shifu

roz hawker has a new blog.

you should go over and meet her!

why? well, having JUST taken her class

 velma's classwork

 and i continue at home

at beautiful silks' symposium

where i among a cast of characters taught.

roz taught me to look at stitches

differently.

to see them as marks.

drawing, even.

and so i've been stitching

warping the little loom

for shifu

and missing the scent of eucalyptus.

~~~

settling, now

 i look through dyed shifu

into the sky

where a spruce and a maple 

take up air space

and this morning

i'm threading heddles

guarded by my best friend

a long warp on my little loom

cotton for shifu

 surrounded by the heat of northern summer

the colours of australia

 tiny packets of threads

from roz's class

 and my little hidey sack

how they look in the mottled summer light

this flax paper is waiting

my working into it's strong surface

 a few things to think about

high summer

hot

stormy

insectful

blessed.

little home tales

 playing with an archivist and a hollowback

 what trace helped me do

with my old gap shirt

 wonderful color

 looking at what i worked on

with roz hawker

at nature's colours in the city

bales in the early morning 

the same day

 on tooley pond road

a youngster

 who couldn't figure us out

 stormy possibilities

 another reason i love the north country

in the mixed lettuce i bought 

down the road a piece 

at farmer bill's

 i often find a blade or two of grass

and tonight

i found it in my burrito. 

no harm, 

and delicious lettuces.