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i opened one of the windows last night when the storm was brewing.  Big Wind.  went out to do things and when i came back, the Wall was all in disarray, stuff having blown off or dangling.  i got it all back up but suddenly saw that the little blue orb was missing!!

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those 3 baskets of cloth there…i looked carefully on the surfaces, down behind the toy box. nope.  so before i went to work this morning i took EVERYTHING out of them, shook and shook.  no little blue.  Sad, i went to work.  a while ago, i started to look again.  maybe blew further than i imagined.   behind the dresser?  into the hallway?  and as i was standing there, i looked into the basket on the dresser next to the crow and 

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ta Da!…safe and sound.  so now i know what it feels like if little blue is gone.   not ok.

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first hollyhock this year.  they are late.  but here we go.

 

 

 

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  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Wind made the choice for you in a way. How great is that! GREAT great. Yum-yum to your hardy hollyhock from my hopeful hollhock waiting for the sun to SHINE :->

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  2. LaceLady Avatar
    LaceLady

    love the hollyhock ~ and tickled “little blue orb” was found~

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  3. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. back to the old thoughts about how “the Universe”
    is interactive…IS IT? in this case, you’d think.
    oh…i’ll speak to this hollyhock about yours. all i have anymore pretty much are these generic pinks. what all
    colors seem to morph into over time??? maybe i’ll make
    an effort toward variety again. maybe not.

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  4. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes. a real relief.

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  5. handstories Avatar
    handstories

    I told you I loved that orb!
    Your hollyhocks are late, they’re usually up before my poppies, which are half done.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    to stitch down now. no more blowings.
    and they ARE late. and fewer than some years. some
    years they are EVERYWHERE, interesting how things take
    turns. this is a lambsquarters year.

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  7. Valerianna Avatar
    Valerianna

    Ha… perfect teacher for you… wind.

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  8. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    your wily heyoka wind has a great sense of humour giving your blue orb a bit more spin!

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  9. grace Avatar
    grace

    Heyoka…yes. again, it becomes so clear now and then why
    the First People see the Elementals how they do…
    as more than personifications but really, THE
    Elementals.
    How Wind threw Little Blue in the basket near Crow.
    Could be a Teaching Story for grace, yes??????

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  10. Nance Avatar
    Nance

    I laughed out loud when you said the orb was missing… You do get what you wish for! And will you try to dye with your holly hocks? As they droop you can dead head and put in freezer til you have as many as yo can get. They if you after mordant with copper you might get purple!

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  11. Pat T Avatar
    Pat T

    Do you think the crow wanted it for his nest? Well done the hollyhock to survice the wind.

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  12. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    quite a daring drip that little one went on. imagine how exhilirated it was feeling! and what about your white hollyhocks? nada? i have a bunch coming up but they’re so tiny still. don’t know what they’ll manage to do–and i think i mentioned way back that my hopi sunflowers have all been gobbled up by some thing. hope yours are well. love love

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  13. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    sorry about visiting so seldom
    explaining later
    just
    love

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  14. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    please tell me about those needles in the basket. i just looked them up–wondering about them.

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  15. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    isn’t it amazing how a small blue orb can be the object of such affection..and how wonderful to have the wind as a partner in decision making…i like to think of your wind swirling through your room with mischief…teasing you along..it does sound like a teaching story
    my hollyhocks , the real ones have disappeared this year, but my little zebrina malva seem to have suddenly migrated from one side of my house to the other..my dad gave me the seeds for them years ago and i would truly be sad to lose them..that is strangely one of the hardest things to think of leaving..and it is fairly humorous..with each trip to vermont i ask my husband what he wants to take …and the car has been full..mainly with peonies, raspberries , hydrangeas…not so practical..but soul pleasing and that is what seems most important right now..
    so we still have a big blowup queen sized mattress there..( and a few slightly worried sounding remarks from kids) but there is something very right about sittig..ok on the chairs we move around the house…and i can sit with cloth and he can move slowly through the garden yet to be and it feels just right
    i love seeing your baskets and your wall..you share so much…
    i just put out a weekends worth of more stuff to be taken away..i pare slowly i guess..i know i need to get up from here and go package up more things to leave..some things to keep.but oh what a lovely break to come and look into your world..more later xox much have a good day..keep your eye on that orb

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  16. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe, but here it seems everything in copper goes green.
    again…maybe about the water?

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  17. grace Avatar
    grace

    oh…Pat T….i just was over at your place this morning!
    your Figures are wonderful! and no…i don’t think he
    wanted it, but he does Watch what’s going on.
    Those hollyhocks could care less about Wind…
    they are Iron Women

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  18. grace Avatar
    grace

    well, the white?, will have to wait and see. and YES!!!
    so glad you mention the Hopi Blacks. i have gone back
    a few times looking for where you had commented before and
    had yet to find it.
    They are good, the ones by the raft. some did get eaten
    as did the marigolds etc….
    i want to take a pic of that whole event at some point…
    but some are just fine and i will harvest seed.

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  19. grace Avatar
    grace

    the needles. i LOVE these needles.
    2 kinds.
    for most stitching, the #9 Milliners Richard Hemming @ Sons
    for very fine things, #11 Sharps. these are very fine,
    recommended originally by a beading person. for fine
    edges in turned applique, for really INVISIBLE invisible
    baste. John James
    both of these i got from Colonial Needle Company on line.
    they are really great people and you can call them on
    the PHONE!!!!, talk to a person!!!!!
    the #11 sharps take me forever to thread but it’s worth
    it.

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  20. grace Avatar
    grace

    Yvette…i think of you and love you whether you come
    here or not. i know that you are Working at Everything
    in your world and i love you.
    so…just love back to you…

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    your reports from the outlands are becoming so loved by
    me. and when i read the words zebrina malva, though i
    didn’t really know what they are, i KNEW and we have
    zebrina malva here. always reminds me of a fierce european hollyhock. sometimes they are out there, sometimes not.
    but also, not gone forever. how MUCH there is to learn
    about how the Plant People live, yes?
    and i love that your husband wants plants and bushes and i
    love to think of him moving slowly through the garden…
    and how chairs go from here to there as needed.
    your Tellings are very FINE and EXCELLENT and tell way
    more than just the story at hand
    LOVE, Cynthia, Big Love

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