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.

around the place...

...i'll know that fall is here

 recent prints

  summer holdouts in my neighbor's garden

 color

 softer color this fall

 moonrise and sunset on wednesday

and now the moon is really big

 old mystery full of books

 this fall and last fall color studies

genevieve sent me my studies from asao's class

 and a new book

 half sendack

 half blake it seems

wholly amazing.

luna

my little camera found this sphere

and

there was music,

coyote and geese

possibles

a possible, but not mine,

mine had only the slightest bits of blue...

 there was a night and a day 

and then some more

dyeing paper

here's a little dance

how it's disbound 

 what i found inside

pleases me,

this winter break

where there is some color play

on the surface of cotton

paper 

with a little help

from staghorn sumac

blueberries, onion skins, hollyhock,

yellow birch,

a spider plant,

and metal things

 some string marks

 some metals

 a length in transition

and my vat god, plus a linen bundle

oh, and there was a moon or two

or more.

 last night's snow was lit up and

this morning there's new snow

so these bits of startling color indoors

make outside more beautiful still.

quiet monday

 walking the moon

 and then back home:

i'm liking where this one is going

flax &

cotton paper

plant magic