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a tooth had fallen out.  actually a while ago.  but today i went to get it glued back in.    and then many more small stitches.  and an overcast day, clouds scudding here to there all day.  Sun a hazy mostly hidden orb.  and i had to go let dogs out and feed this early eve…it's only 5:30 now and 

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so…took camera 

 

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here.  just before i left

 

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and on the way there was that  FLARE   that sometimes  happens,  just as Sun touches the Rim.  Everything turns copperbronze.  this is a very very old cottonwood.

 

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Nelia and Bill's South Pasture,  Nelia's horses.  Bill,  Alz B.'s son.

 

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llamas are kind of like goats…move fast.  this is Cookie.  the Dad.

 

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little CoCoNina,  the baby

 

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Coquette, the mom.   Cookie and Coquette had lived here some years.  and suddenly a couple months ago, there was CoConina.  No one had ever seen any indication of Hanky Panky.  but…

 

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on the way out

 

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further.  in the foreground, Salt Cedar.

 

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on the way home, the metallic GLOW was gone and it started to rain

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  1. julie Avatar
    julie

    I come here every night before I go to bed, Grace. And tonight’s walk was just what I had been thinking I wish I could do, maybe tomorrow I thought, to relieve some underlying crankiness. But then there was all this, esp “the way out.” It was, for me.

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  2. grace Avatar
    grace

    julie…thanks BIG for saying this. i always wonder
    about these kind of nothing much posts. and probably
    would have never posted this if it weren’t for the Every
    Day Vow. so..i love this…and that you hooked to
    “the way out” in the way you did…
    it validates the thing about the reality of just nothing
    much, that it is really something enough. it’s what
    was. and it was beautiful. i wish it hadn’t started to
    rain. would have spent longer with pics of the llama
    family.
    truth is too, that no one knew the gender of Cookie and
    Coquette. or their age. they were Sale Barn beings…a
    place north of here in Belen that is just that. a big
    barn with an arena where animals are driven into to mill
    around anxiously while being bid on. a way mostly for people to get RID of unwanted livestock.
    and here they are. in this huge and spacious place, a
    little family. when i left, they had gone far out and were lying together under some trees from the rain. it was very peacefull and Good. i’m glad you felt that.

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  3. kathy dorfer Avatar
    kathy dorfer

    love these photo’s … my favorite kind of lighting . very peaceful.
    i too come here every evening .
    thanks for being you and sharing that .
    xxoo

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  4. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    echoing this. . .it is a blessing to mark each day. we so often think that nothing has happened. but you saw everything. the sky. the light. the inhabitants of place. and that is worth recording. especially in your elegant way.

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  5. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    Grace, yesterday’s post was so me..the feeling..yvette why do you always are behind….but i noticed the ” mess” is a mess because i think the others think etc
    i enjoy mess because it’s not mess but process
    it is something to return to
    it is waiting for you
    for me it’s so important to stay with ME
    the outer world must not be leading
    i’m sorry….this is my proces …maybe stupid to write it down here
    alas
    o wow you with the goats almost on your lap!

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  6. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    these “nothing much” posts are the ones, for me, the really resonate with richness. and here the story is the light, the vistas, the grass and cottonwood, the highway and low-way, the fencing, the road signs and rr crossing, the sky, the cedar being–and oh, the llamas. i can see them cribbing in the magic light. so you see, there is a tremendous amount of so-muchness here and it’s all seed for our souls. thank you dear Grace.

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  7. jude Avatar
    jude

    light says so much.
    llamas are so funny.

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  8. beth Avatar
    beth

    Sometimes I come at night, sometimes in the morning, but I’ve noticed that I really slow down with your blog, look closely, read thoughtfully. Breathe. You just have a way of sharing it… And the comments add to it. Thank you all for being here.

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  9. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    love and thanks to you also, Beth

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  10. Michelle in NYC Avatar
    Michelle in NYC

    Add me to the list of nightly checkers here. I checked last night but too early and just had to drop back to bed. Not quite well yet…so this afternoon I’m drinking in the light like a thirsty animal, loving the Llama family rescued from obscurity, and YOU, divine Grace.

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    You have Copper Light!

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  12. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    Love this light and space…big open space that you bring us. I’ve not been able to stop by as much lately…but tonight I needed this. I wish for this light and space one day. And I’m with Patricia, these nothing posts share so much with few words and stunning photos. Thank you for them.

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  13. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    In her amazing book “How the Light Gets in”, Pat Schneider reminds us to keep starting with the light – what was the quality of the light?…

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  14. grace Avatar
    grace

    should i get this book?

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  15. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    the light is soooooo beautiful

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  16. saskia Avatar
    saskia

    uplifting

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  17. jennann Avatar
    jennann

    Absolutely. It’s been a really long time since I’ve had a book resonate so strongly with me. I’m on my second read – just so I can mark passages. I picked up the one you’ve been reading and am savoring it as well.

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    kathy…i’m here too. every evening. i’m glad you come.

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    coming on to just a hundred days left of every day. and
    now and then i wonder if i will continue

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yvette, you are right. it’s just things Waiting for me.
    i love that thought…all in their places, Waiting for me.
    That is Really Beauty Full.
    Thank you for that, love

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  21. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i don’t know exactly what to say. if these oh so
    plain things are “lit” with light? so common then. and
    for sure, things in All Our Places would be the same

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  22. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    llamas are not as funny as Goats tho

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  23. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    for me, the comments are the WHOLE of the experience.
    they mirror for me things i cannot see myself. and
    they give me a Place to put what i love.
    another way to say it is
    YOU and EVERYONE who reads here give me a place to
    put what i love
    and i am very grateful for that.
    yes. Thank you and Thank Everyone

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  24. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    there’s a beautiful poem somewhere in the world about
    a wolf
    how his thirst is slaked….so….you, divine Michelle….

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  25. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    sometimes. yes. so so copperbronze. it’s stunning

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  26. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    you encourage me with the Nothing

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  27. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    ok. i trust your word

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  28. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it is just now and then. but just stops you dead in
    your tracks

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  29. Minka Avatar
    Minka

    beautiful images. Thank you

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  30. grace Avatar
    grace

    looking with you and Everyone, i begin to understand
    the significance of Small Looking. thinking that it’s not
    much of anything, really, i put these pics here because
    they are really, all i have of a day.
    but then
    i look at them WITH you and look again.

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