rainy day

i love weather

the changes 

and these few pictures are NOT

are decidedly not what today is.

 anyway, fist cutting 

should be all done and gathered in

and new growth well underway

 but i loved these large square bales

(yes, i know they're not square)

taken in the early morning sunshine

here:

all good farmers got in their hay

even this youngster

but

this is how things look today

 only more gray and less

as the rain decrees.

 practicing with a horn bag pattern,

and amused by how my understanding is

different from jean's 

but they all work out

maybe it's like the plethora of ways

to make a potholder or a needle book?

anyway,

i'm putting the textblock together for this cover

 i stitched it to ecoprinted flax cave paper

this book will go 

directly 

to the morgan for a show

focused on eastern papermaking.