inch by inch

so yesterday in the RAIN that has been so WITH us,

i was on my porch 

and a gray she-fox stopped in the backyard to check out my presence.

m. saw her this morning,

just down from my driveway.

 a healthy fat lady

never seen one closeby before

so she's new in the area.

probably has a litter.

she vanishes in the tall meadow

just like wendy used to.

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playing with iphoto 

after spinning up some lokta

acquired in melbourne on my last visit.

maybe it's those wild colors from helen hiebert

that has me messing around...

i want to have a few new samples for the WSW class.

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working on the edition still

sorting all the tiny

big details

and making shifu

wondering if i still know how

(perhaps i don't)

and remembering how important it is to keep touching that paper-

each time i touch the paper i learn more.

this was a khaki sheet,

not the normal "natural" lokta color

and 

what was a really lovely sheet of paper

is now a murky shifu square.

interesting how spinning transforms the appearance

of a sheet of paper

but doesn't alter the essence of the paper.

here's dard, wearing some simply spun lokta

and when i opened him up

i found immediately a photo of the nepalese

moulds drying on the hillside.

and i was back,

at PBI

decorating a hillside

with nepalese moulds.

as soon as there's a bit of plumbing completed,

wake robin will be making paper.