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81 an Away Day

but…in this space, before i set out.  About that huge dead Russian Olive out back.  people say they don't understand why i don't cut it down.  it's been dead for maybe i don't know, maybe 8 years?  for a while, new shoots came up from the bottom but the Goats took care of that.  but i was sitting here staring at nothing this morning and just listening.  Boat-tail grackles.  they just "come by" sometimes.  no regularity.  go look and there are 3.  two interacting…..great displays of sound and feather. Posturing.  the dead tree is perfect for watching.

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and since i have the camera in hand, i once again photograph my house

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one end clear to the other.  this is    it.  no more, no less.

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Later………………

 

 

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24 responses to “81 an Away Day”

  1. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    your house looks very well organized; beautiful cloths together; dead trees are so useful! we had an old pear tree which suddenly died, it was covered in moss, lots of insects crawling all over it which lured the birds into it’s branches; it came down a couple of years ago when Obama was first chosen for president; whilst watching the live coverage on tv we heard this noise, crack and kaboum: the pear had finally fallen in part on the veranda roof, there is still a leaky hole; we’ve kept the trunk lying scattered in parts, as food for birds, insects, mysterious mushrooms, the dry branches made excellent fire wood .

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  2. Saskia Van Herwaarden Avatar
    Saskia Van Herwaarden

    ah, managed to comment via Google sign in route!!

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  3. elizabeth fortes Avatar
    elizabeth fortes

    Your home is so cozy and so Real! The presence of love and attention.
    Everything emanating a unique mindful presence.
    love, e.

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  4. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I have a dead redbud that I haven’t gotten around to doing anything about. Last year it started growing conks. I love them. Still thinking about your post about making things…about choices.

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  5. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    conks..i’ve never heard that word be fore. stumplets?
    like stuff coming groundlevel from it?
    my guess is if i watered, this might happen, but i am
    so torn, as in ambivilent, about what to water.
    yes, the post about making, about choices…i haven’t
    stopped thinking about it…it moves around and moves
    around in my head, hasn’t lost any steam….still
    primary. am now dreaming it. i guess that’s good?, or
    not…i don’t know.
    LOVE,

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  6. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    Nope conks are a fungi that grow on things. I’m not sure you have enough moisture to grow them?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conks
    One of my favorite quotes from Socrates… “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Making gives us a way to examine our lives, how we live, the choices we make…I think that’s a good thing. Love to you… P.S. One of the things I’ve been thinking about how important it is for children to understand how things can be made, the process not just the product. How that can shape us as adults.

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    i love dead trees.
    i love the big cloth folded over the back of the chair

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Deb…i was going through all my Picasa stuff today, looking for pics i wanted to send to Dee and i got so stuck on
    ones of little boy person Julian and i talked to him on
    the phone yesterday about a lot of stuff. and he said
    he is ready to come here again. he’s 3 and a half.
    Three and a Half. that’s not much. but the conversation
    was rich and deep and full of basic goodness. he wants
    to name the new baby goats. he wants to come back.
    and i am thinking about what there is here to give.
    Goats. milk. yogurt. cheese.
    Plant people, a few flowers. that’s about it.
    but it IS a process.
    it begins with really nothing. then seed…whether it is
    plant seed or seed from the Snot Boy Buckwheat. everything begins so small.
    i love you, deb g.

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. and i know that if you came here, we would just
    stand there, together, and look and i wouldn’t need
    to explain anything at all. we would just look. and
    we would be filled with the understanding of Just Going.
    how it is.
    how it is just ok and fine.
    and that’s the very best best best Best.

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  10. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    Ah Grackles, cool birds! met them last time I was in the US & love your one big room for stitching the dreams in to being!

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  11. Dee Avatar
    Dee

    it is so nice to be invited in… thank you. I love the lines drawn on the particle board… at least some section of it must make a nine patch?

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. the thing about getting dead trees out of the
    way…they ARE so usefull still…standing and then as
    you say here, fallen…food and shelter for some…

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  13. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s funny, as in odd, how much i like just looking
    at it. What am i seeing?, i wonder, aside from the
    actual physical components of it. maybe because it is
    kind of an “against all odds” kind of space? someday
    i’ll maybe spend some time with this question, see if i
    can find anything out
    love back

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  14. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s interesting…i googled them and listened to what
    they offered as vocalizations. and the ones they showed
    online there were Eastern State Boat tails. the ones
    here are much more vocal, almost like mocking birds in
    the variety of speech. they seem like Goats too in that
    they spend so much time interacting with one another.
    and well…this view does not include the Room…that added
    on space that daughter and i made. that’s the real stitching place.

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oH, Come Come, which is what one says to Goats….and
    they do…
    the lines on the particle board are on one side of it,
    a grid to be used to square stuff up when building. one
    side is plain. when the neighbor was putting it in for
    sub flooring i asked him to put the plain side up….and
    then went to work. he forgot. and i suppose there certainly IS a nine patch, but i am not all that much a 9 patch
    person. it needs to be finished somehow. someday. or not~

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  16. ali Avatar
    ali

    home

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ohhhh, Ali…ooooooo, hello.
    Love

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i have thought of you so much, all along, but then
    recently, and always think well…maybe she is Claiming
    her
    quiet.
    wait.

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  19. ali Avatar
    ali

    quiet wait, yes, and love back to you, dear grace. much love

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  20. margaret johnson Avatar
    margaret johnson

    Hi Grace, thought I’d come by and say Hello. I agree, dead trees are a great asset for birds and other wild life. Lots of animals in Australia depend on dead trees to make there homes. Especially trees with hollows. Loved the pics of your house, it looks very warm and welcoming. I spotted the book by Meinrd Craighead on your couch, me being a sticky beak had to have a closer look. Having looked her up I am IN LOVE with her work!!! I can’t believe I had never heard of her before. I’ll be saving up for her book, hopefully I’ll have it for my birthday this year. Thankyou for sharing yourself on your blog, it’s a treat to visit. Hope you enjoyed your day off. Kind regards, Margaret. oxox

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  21. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    I am imagining sitting in the deliciously inviting comfy chair ~ that cradles a beautiful basket ~ that carefully holds (but not tightly) lovely cloth ~ that has a throw? quilt? coat? with a centered bird watching, or guarding one’s back. powerful picture from here. thank you.

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    margaret…oh…sticky beak…i’ve never heard that
    expression before…but i am then also a sticky beak.
    Yes.
    and that’s exactly how i have her book…a birthday gift
    to Self.
    she’s quite private and so…unknown.
    love,

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    oh, Hoo Hoo!, laceLady! that’s my Magic Diaries cloth.
    just
    folded…off the West Window.
    come sit any time.

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  24. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    hmmm.. don’t know Mom was living in Houston back then & seems they might have been either Boat Tail Grackles or Great Tailed Grackles, they were living in the park near the supermarket, very curious vocal beings, love them, such a beautiful dark iridescent black colour!

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