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the blooms only last a night and mid morning anyway, but usually with more gentle grace.  next to her, amazingly enough, the little rose bush that was gifted from the hardware store 2 years ago…. has decided to do this:014
once before,  there was a bloom, but it was deformed.

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a repeat of the first dye of the cotton cloths for Magic Diaries.  although they vary some, they are all                   reliably             the same beautiful color.   i could barely make myself do it, but i tore a test strip in two….washed half in quite warm water and       Tide!    dried on the little cloth line and all was well!!!!…the color is fast !017
third batch.   one more should do it.

there is a cricket in the dog food bowl and Wind, again, knocked loose the fence.  the oh so late cucumber seedlings are breaking through, their little curved green necks visible.  the 3 volunteer tomato plants are beginning to surpass those i started indoors in February and the Indigo is  GROWING.

 

 
 
 
 
                              

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12 responses to “only one day”

  1. Wendy Avatar
    Wendy

    Grace- it has been too hot here to use the computer, to be inside even, but I have been following this rush of ideas, cloth, life over there. And thinking, a lot, about ‘sustainability’ as in many ways an orientation toward place… but still thinking/computer overheating, your dark cloths are beautiful, and the variations in the colours are magic. Perfect!

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  2. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    This reminded me of this:
    The year’s at the spring,
    And day’s at the morn;
    Morning’s at seven;
    The hill-side’s dew-pearled;
    The lark’s on the wing;
    The snail’s on the thorn;
    God’s in his Heaven—
    All’s right with the world!
    And when I went to find it (here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippa_Passes)…
    I found it funny that it is from his Bells and Pomegranates series. I am seeing pomegranates all over today! Now if I could get the photos to load over at my blog pomegranate trail! Don’t you love when that stuff happens?!
    I get such a sense of excitement when I look at your gatherings. I feel something coming…

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  3. KaiteM. Avatar
    KaiteM.

    it’s nice to see you happily paddling around there, just contentedly doing your own thing

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  4. deanna7trees Avatar
    deanna7trees

    Great…

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  5. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    deanna…i don’t know why it’s working….this dye process…
    could be because of the original tea dye? then all the rest
    working with that original chemistry? OR, i’m thinking…maybe
    it’s the water here? it’s a little ify. we have a community
    water cooperative…it comes down from those west rim mountains
    …has odd stuff in it. i don’t drink it. but do cook with it?
    anyway…something in the water? OR it could be that the SUN is
    so so so intense. the heating of the pots to such a degree during
    the day and then cooling so much at night? and NO humidity?
    so much water evaporates each day….
    but is was so happy that it didn’t wash out. i am thinking out of
    the corner of my mind, tho, always about that rinse in the Colorhue.
    ….eeee….BUT! ….hmmmm…………………
    the general color could not have been more perfect. like indigo,
    it “goes” with Everything and i love it’s darkness that will
    provide the perfect ground for whatever else comes

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  6. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    that would be me…and lately in an oversized Tshirt and
    underpants

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  7. Linda Avatar
    Linda

    oh grace.. it is beautiful. the flowers and the cloth. i can’t believe you already have hollyhocks blooming. i am so envious. things aren’t really doing much here yet. too cold and wet.
    the cloth is wonderful. is that an indigo dye pot? i don’t do any dying yet.. i want to also start collecting fabrics and am still stewing about what color to use.. when all i want to use is indigo. i was struck by the neutrals on jude’s post and thought about using other colors. indigo always draws me back.
    i also understand the loving of a place and leaving it. i have done that too and long for it but found i loved the next place. you are a courageous woman and i admire you.

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  8. jude hill Avatar
    jude hill

    that flower folds like cloth.
    this will be some trip.

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  9. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Wendy…in know that we will get to the place of going
    wholeheartedly into that exploration of sustainability.
    i think about it every day and your thoughts, images are
    always intertwined with my own…and Deb G’s.
    yes. it feels like a rush of stuff

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  10. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Nancy…yes. something is coming. for All of us.
    we will share in it

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  11. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    Linda…i am hoping i can get free enough of my own self
    to use all and any cloth that rises up. All, i guess is
    the important word. all cloth. this fills me with
    anticipation…
    no…it’s the onionskin pot. the indigo still grows.
    am just watering it.
    i used to be what might be referred to as courageous.
    now, it’s something very different and i don’t even know
    how to “word” it. this is what i am looking for now…
    what that is.
    xoxoxo

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar
    grace Forrest Maestas

    oh Jude. it does. it does it does it does.

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