yellow birch

 the new place

has yellow birch sills 

and now floors

upstairs.

 sills are oiled, 

floor just installed and unfinished

details unfinished still

but you can see it shaping into home.

i am reading 

to take new ideas into teaching:

and

 i've been looking at 

 drum leaf binding samples

 books made with paste

and paint and pencil 

paper pages, in preparation

drum leaf binding with paste papers 

for teaching in melbourne

at beautiful silks

an experimental class to push us all

and making new prints

to see where they take me,

to oz? or where they go

next.

and i have apps to do

nyfa grants. 

teaching workshops.

ugh.