remarkable things

 the sound was exquisite

friday night at helen hosmer hall

on the suny potsdam campus

 the skies this weekend weren't bad, either

 a steaming pile reminded me of that age old thing

fires in autumn

eating the debris of summer excess

 i have to stop taking these photos!

 but because i live on a hilltop

i'm forced to see these performances

 then i saw something so familiar

and so beautiful

blue beads grace this abandoned nest

a near neighbor

which does make paper

and whose name i can't find in my menopausal brain.

a little blue-making 

chemistry at my house

and then glennis sent this!!!

milkweed, twined with pine nut

on indigo and persimmon silk.

this made my heart sing!
WOW!

there's a nifty little video about twining

here.

evidence of changes

 while driving to colton

 i spotted a strange thing

on a silo

my brave little canon

caught a closeup

i couldn't sort it out visually

till my camera did!

 the light has changed

markedly

and it's certainly fall

 light

 and color

 wild (space fruit) cucumber

 in the hedgerows

 and then there was this one

 wouldn't even acknowledge me

and wasn't posing for the paparazzi

but i did snag a shot or three

 so i looked over to find

three sisters

one wrapped in flowering glories

not out that evening.

 then the sun fled

and marked a backbone

on the fenceline

a week of warm weather

was so welcome

even though

the nights are quickly lengthening.

because of that,

i have some new printed papers

folios for books.

into work

 just color

 yesterday the mail brought

papers from aimee

the bottom two of milkweed 

 the crescent could not be caught

this morning

as i un-pressed a stack

of ecoprinted arches

another dozen sheets for fall

 virgin can lids sometimes surprise me!

 leftovers for the compost

printed last year

can you guess the plant?

to become a substrate for asao's moon

a piece for his upcoming shifu exhibit.
fall brings thoughts of weaving for me,
follow this to read 
a thoughtful piece about my 
blogfriend joanne kaar.

fair

 sugar maples are turning, 

and so are so many others: 

popple, red maples (showing off, for sure)

sumac and virginia creeper.

rich grape and cider wine smells, too.

 a bit of longridge indigo STILL on my right thumb

 and then i met frieda.

 and her man mark

 who talked about falconry,

but really about animal behavior and biology

 and this royal one, a barn owl

 who has ears

that work by means of feathers 

(and a whole lot else)

 looking over her shoulder.

at 

paul smith's VIC

old time skills festival

saturday

 we brought home three lovely goat cheeses

from asgaard farm.

riches.

getting along

 so this little girl is my favorite of the heifers next door

it's her very pretty face

 though her buddy looks good in the evening light

 over at the new place cellulose takes on a new meaning

for this papermaker

 a little stream 

 runs through the field

under the dirt road

and away 

and i had a grand mail day

yesterday.

5 books,

delicious!
~~~
but, there is more. 
this week, friends lost two very dear ones.
both losses unexpected.
love to you.

v, traveling

they call them skeins of geese

not me

~as i walked home tonight~

the walk started in daylight but i came home at dusk

their calling was overarched by first one coyote call, then a clan

just letting us all know coyote business was at hand.

neighbor dogs barked in return

huffing up big chests no doubt

but the geese continued on.

i saw them as i walked, after the woodcock flushed 

flew across the meadow

to a spot suitable for a few more morsels

before darkness.

and then grapes and apples and scents of other 

lesser fruits assaulted my nose.

and then there were seven flurrying ducks.

i knew, knew i would see a black bear tonight. deeply. 

there was a tiny cottontail

more geese, 

and then two whitetail flushed so close i could see their eyes

watched their enormous tails

bouncing like those balls on the films

to follow along with the words

when i was little

flee all the way across the big meadow, and then the ecotone, there

up in the sky

only geese.

in a, as a, V

V

i never noticed they were more connected to me

than i knew

my initial

has a mapping meaning for those

fall travelers.