detour

 detour: oswegatchie river

 i've been passing this by

everyday on the detour home

friday the horse team was absent, work done

it was hard to get a good photo

(huge lines were in my way)

 but the changeable weather

made for light shows

 at home

 the leaves opened up

 for the lights

~~~

 i looked at two little abaca sheets

i had placed in a bundle

 and i learned something new

besides the ecoprints,

 the fern inclusions

from long ago

took up the dye color

and become dark presences.

nifty!

a mid august rain

afternoon rain came sunday

thunder growled

an hour 

then it finally 

rained and rained

wendy hid out, fearful, as usual

and i worked on hard pages

in shifu 

finishing four in two days

and this morning

fog and damp

blanketing the porch table

the screens

my skin

and a home 

 foggy interlude today

time to work

and think about things to come

plans coming to fruition

a visit, two, three, more

a trip, two, three, more

and then school again 

a web for gin, who photographs spiders 

close-up

a good day

saturday seemed to be a low energy day for me. 
but it wasn't really.

i ended the day by opening up a bundle of shifu pages i had wrapped last weekend.

the bundle included frozen violas and hollyhocks
bloodroot

aluminum, rusty steel, my well water and vinegar.

this shifu was bundled around a bloodroot rhizome 

nice striping 

not a flying saucer 
a bundle of shifu pages, layered with dyestuff
wrapped in old cotton sheeting
and tied 

unwrapped  

the bottom 

the wrapper 

the stack 

not for the faint hearted if slimy stuff is a problem 

spent flowers 

the pages, in order of stacking 

they will dry and wait several days
then i will rinse.

saturday morning i planted my indigo babies,
then my sister and i went to ottawa for CBBAG fair
(more later) 
and we ate at canal ritz

this is how the day ended.