not a fan

i am definitely not a fan

of daylight savings time.

i go home

later now because of the new school

and a student i tutor

and it will be dark so early.

arrgh.

 so the week we just 

said goodbye to

was full.

many

 books came to my house:

 but by far

the most special was this one

another by carol blinn

guess what it's about!

 beaver are newly busy

over at the new place

 they get to work and nail the aspens

stealth chewers,

 better than a tupper lake logger.

 this startled me on my walk tonight

 all light and shadow

and edges

 two feed sacks on the

barbed wire

we had a big wind on friday

as the front moved through.

 a textile?

 a fence.

 and the six calves

separated from their mums

came trotting and snorting and asking

for a photo shoot

how could i not oblige?

another edge

in front of my pasture.

autumn today, really chilly

clear, sunny, hat and mittens weather

again.

cloth

 "a cloth with the characteristics of dragonfly wings" 

describing basho-fu from 

mottainai: the fabric of life

this slim catalog is lovely, 

finely designed and square in the hand

with text in both english and japanese

from the current show at the portland japanese garden.

the co-curators are kei kawasaki and stephen szczepanek (sri textiles)

i would love to see this show.

~~~

 on today's walk

 the two calves in the front pasture

next door

were snoting and blowing and ripping and tearing

maybe it was the snow in the air.

wendy ignored them, but they were,

perhaps,

thinking she was a wolf!

 grrr...

big moon and other wonders

 inside through two panes

there are two moons on the horizon

 and outdoors 

no woodcock yet 

from the front porch

water though, downhill

moon play on the porch

 mud socks

 another book

gravelled

salted

layered 

pages and pages

 newborn and salted

little friends