i wanted to find what would work for the grass leaves.    everything is just a mess.  i am not very neat with how i keep cloth.  so i dumped out all nine baskets and

sorted.

at the bottom of one,  was this eye from a while back that i had decided i didn't like.  too dreary.  but i stuck it on the wall anyway, to remember about making dreary eyes.   then, on the floor, under another basket was the half circle of petals.       the eye is still dreary, but with the petals, dreary in a more interesting way?

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and this morning, when emptying the stuff from kitchen to compost,  i had the urge to look down and there, just at my feet,  a very bright eyed maybe second year bull snake.  we regarded each other  and i was so surprised to see her all i said was…  so how's it goin?   and walked away.  came in, sat down and thought about it.

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26 responses to “SunDay sorta wasted”

  1. Valerianna Avatar

    Wow, that eye is enLIGHTened.
    About a month ago I stopped to help what I thought was a milk snake across the road. she was curled tight in the middle of the asphalt, sunbathing. I told her she would most likely get hit if she stayed there.
    I grabbed a long stick and gently prodded her to the side of the road. As she moved I noticed that she didn’t have the usual milk-snake belly, but a more vibrant, pink one. I took note of that. She was a thick, large snake, very polite and just moved slowly away. At home, I looked her up and saw that, quite possibly, I’d just helped a VERY large copperhead across the road.

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  2. Nancy Avatar

    The flower does give it a different look, less like a basset hound. But I actually like it either way. I am interested in the blue lines on the fabric behind it too.

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  3. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    amazing what you find in the bottoms of baskets!! that’s always happening to me. the eye looks fantastic, i love the way you have put these pieces of fabric together. i’m really LOVING watching your quilt coming alive. snakes in the garden wow, hope she was a friendly one. we have big beautiful blue tongue lizards around our place. happy to report we haven’t seen any brown snakes YET, they can be agressive. the red belly black snakes are poisonous too, but are less agressive. ahhh what a beautiful world we live in, so much to be in awe of. see ya Grace, Marg. ox

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  4. jacky Avatar
    jacky

    Perfect…everything is just falling into place as it should and that eye has a very mysterious look now.
    Been reading back through your posts,always so interesting to see and hear what you have been up to.
    Your dolls are truly amazing Grace ….
    Jacky xox

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  5. cindy Avatar

    well, i did like that eye, especially that flicker of light in it & the flower- how things come together & create so many choices. and, oh, do i know the mess you are talking about. what a great encounter w/ms. snake.

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  6. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    AH GRACE–THE END OF SUN DAY AND IT WAS sunny–I worked for a friend boxing books, then an exhausted nap, then more magic cloth adjustments (your inspiration started me on it, but who knows when I’ll finish. I’m just not stitching at all (not even the magic feather)–the week starts–zoom–ends–the month starts–Pft–it’s over.
    The eye is wonderful in both incarnations in my opinion. how is the grass coming along? What a patience you have. No snakes in Manhattan but the landlords and politicians (if you don’t count the desperate criminals at the lower end of things)–maybe a few garden variety in urban gardens, and the city parks–a few pet snakes. Somehow, your snake, dangerous or not, seemed more natural, like you in your landscape, and like your creations as they evolve. They, and you are where they belong.

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  7. Vicky Avatar

    that eye looks like a bird, ostrich perhaps….

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  8. Doris Avatar
    Doris

    the eye tells: I know all about it

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  9. KaiteM. Avatar

    so what’s a bull snake? i like that you just spoke to it and walked away, i do that.

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  10. KaiteM. Avatar

    i just googled it, very pretty but quite large. Did it rear up and pretend to be a rattler?

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  11. Linda Avatar

    you are braver than i..
    one of the reasons i love washing on (western) is there are not poisonous snakes. after coming from the midwest, i don’t like snakes much.
    love that eye.. not dreary. very thoughtful.
    the flower makes it so sexy.. alluring..
    my sunday had no stitching. let’s keep our fingers crossed that today has some.

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  12. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    did you read the Castenada books?
    well…snakes. you really need to know them. they are
    serious beings.

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  13. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i’ll talk about those lines, maybe…it was a cloth that
    came with the gigunda amt of damask i sent Deb Lacativa

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  14. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    what i have found is that aggression begats aggression
    for the most part…
    ordinarily, and i need to acknowledge that ordinary is
    changing these days, so…Who Knows…but
    ordinarily, rattlesnakes don’t come into this area. they
    like rocky places. here is is ancient river valley, so
    sandy. unappealing to a rattlesnake.
    Bull snakes don’t enjoy contact. but if you give them
    their space, can be very excellent cohabitors.
    i would love to see your blue tongue lizard. am going to
    google.

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  15. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    i am SO touched that you would “read back”…bless your
    heart. yeah…those dolls….

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  16. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    yes. it’s the light in it that says something

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  17. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    snakes in Manhattan…yes. i am sure. and we won’t
    count the desperate.
    this snake is my counterpart here, no less, no more.

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  18. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it is ostrichy, isn’t it. something to look at with
    interest. like in, what is ostrichy………

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  19. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    good. i will rely on you.

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  20. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    it’s mama, or grand or great grand, who knows is VERY
    BIG
    i haven’t seen her in a quite a while, so was SO
    HAPPY to see this young one. what it says to me is that
    there are enough private places out there that a very
    private snake can raise her young. i like that a LOT.
    and no…she/he just was there
    head lifted
    looking up at me
    as i looked down.
    it was an extremely excellent moment, an extremely
    excellent exchange.
    i am hoping s/he lives under the wood pile. i would
    like that a lot.
    and yes, i looked first at the tip of the tail.

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  21. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    thoughtful, sexy alluring
    jeez and wow. and hmmmm.
    just take that ONE single stitch.
    more are GUARANTEED TO FOLLOW. guaranteed.
    for sure

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  22. KaiteM. Avatar

    maybe she chose the compost because you were breeding mice in there – excellent tucker for a mother snake

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  23. Valerianna Avatar

    I did read some of Castenada’s books…. and, well, snakes in general for an pagan are important beings, for sure.

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  24. Els Avatar

    Ever so slowly your big magic cloth is growing ! Love to see it Grace !

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  25. k Avatar
    k

    Makes me think of before and after photos. Second photto would be after a pot of tea and a bit of mascara 😀

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  26. grace Forrest Maestas Avatar

    oh, this was SO GREAT!!!!
    had just finished that latest post, feeling quite, well,
    pensive would be a good enough word
    and clicked over to see your comment listed in the in box and thought….HUH?????
    then realized it’s about the dreary/sexy eye….
    and i was able to LAUGH and everything Lightened Up by
    several degrees….
    THANK YOU!!!!!
    you must be in UK or Aust?????

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