other edges, rich as usual

 the last evening walk here i noticed a few things.

 i love this deep duff,

where humus is built, and the creeping 

and the many-leggeds 

live.

 further on down the road i looked back

to see a long me

stretching across the hay meadow

 right before i came to its edge.

and again i thought,

how rich this edge is.

thinking of the ecotone that holds

huge fecundity,

variety,

the very opposite of monoculture.

even the color is beautiful.

 having just made milkweed paper

and having seen a few monarch butterflies this year 

(thank goodness)

i give you pods, though some have already burst.

 i continued on to find these bracts almost 

bare

grey dogwood berries

food of birds including woodcock

who nested close, 

i saw them many times this summer.

sun is usually setting on my way home

and the warm weather that night 

didn't warn (exactly) that in two nights we would be

on the edge of frost.

they say it might come tonight

over ten days later than normal.

a speedy whitetail visitor escaped 

my lens

 on saturday we went for maple syrup

and found this

 at home i went through the mail

 and found some nice things,

tom and rima's little thank you book 

for helping with crowdsourcing hedgespoken

shown here with the cloth book i'm making

 and the catalog from 

dorothy caldwell's exhibition

i love these marks

 i just called the art gallery of peterborough

and they most graciously posted this to me.

and i found out that my credit card had issues,

as we say,

those issues made it impossible to use again

the charges were dropped.

finishing up the odd ball copies

the ones i played with a little

 we are almost ready to launch the book

i had some stitching to do on a few

 so a few of them will have mendings

we decided that was ok. 

even good.

november, a map is almost ready,

almost.