falling into fall

it's hard to tell from this

but fall is peeping round the corner

the prints again have sumac berries

now becoming popular!

and the beavers have built another dam

and just before the full moon 

there was a miracle

which my camera couldn't photograph

this whole path, 

from the moon and above and across in cruciform arcs

a huge slide from the sky fell down through the heavens into the meadow

and landed just below and to the left of where i took this photo.

out my window at the new place.

it was like a huge cloud slide, looking solid, shimmering, maybe

the spot where the woman fell from the sky

or the sky people travelled down?

it was an amazing sight, i thought i'd flipped a wee bit.

i've been pulling together old work, finishing it off

and as usual making some thread for shifu

looking at the pondweeds, too, their patterns and danceing bits.

i've finished the envelopes for the edition

i will write more about this soon.

and i laugh everytime i see this,

of course it's closed, silly.

there's a sign not 20 feet from this on the other side

in the brush.

daisy fleabane and goldenrod 

hold up the sunset

for a little while

longer

and i toy with trying to capture the feeling of this land

this incredible place.

below,

goldenrod and asters dance

their virgo clumps.

for my hannah's 30th birthday.

the mundane grounds me-

i find cloth scraps in my driveway all the time!

lovely and tattered

and here's the last lokta i spun before school starts

makes me happy

i need it to remind me

that happiness hangs sometimes by the thinnest thread

but still it holds 

woven together.