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walking past the door this morning i "registered" something out of the corner of my eye.  It's happened…the angle of the light as SUN moves us into day…this is not Summer angle,  this is Fall.  It's happening.  

 

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Somehow,  it just didn't click…the date, yesterday when i thought to wait a while to finish.  When i saw that SUNlight this morning tho,  i knew.  So i finished August today.  Done.  Tomorrow i'll stitch the sleeve and give  a stick to hang.  Done.  Finito.  August.

Just after that,  i happened to see an important moment out There….There was Tay standing with the hose in her mouth.   So again….NO!!!!!!!,  loud and she dropped it.  

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i hurried to put on some clothes and just as i got out there,  there she was.

 

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this is one of her favorite sticks.    It was Placed.   Her stick on My hose.   Do you see what i mean?, about her ability to find ways to communicate?   Through out the day,   even tho i had used this particular hose just after this pic,  different sticks and the antler were laid on the hose.   So, it wasn't even just in that moment.  She  kept on  thinking about it.  

 

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and tho there is only One,  it is a Perfect One.   see the Bee

and usually almost as soon as there is a flower,  grasshoppers begin to demolish the leaves.  This year not.   Why?   You would think,  with so much rain,  so much "opportunity" there would be a huge grasshopper population, but no.  Some.  really,  a Few compared to other times.   So much remains a Mystery….

 

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The second planting of cucumbers that had begun so  beautifully, so robust and grand….Last week their stem became like this…bones…and there were a few of those Squash Beetles cheerfully mating.  I gave up.   Quit watering.   Let them GO.

 

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But this morning when i went by to "pay my respects"….EEEEEEEEEEE!  there, that small but sincere bloom????????????!!!!!!!!!!!   i checked everywhere,  under the remaining chewed up leaves and not a sign of Squash Bugs,  NO eggs on the underside of the chewed up leaves.  Nada.  So i watered well,  singing something,  some unintelligable wordsounds.  Who knows.  There's still time.

 

 

 

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18 responses to “only one day left”

  1. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    I want your “August” if you decide to let it go…but surely it’s already spoken for. It’s such a masterpiece, or should I say mistresspiece coining an equivalent…or maybe just “Great Gracecloth”.
    Moody and overcast here–cool too–and I’m listening to Prairie Home Companion in the evening unlit, breezy rooms feeling the ebb of season.

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  2. grace Avatar

    Michelle, dear you, i am not able to let this August cloth GO,
    but i would be willing to SHARE it with you….???? Could we
    do that???? Could August come to New York for a time, which who
    knows, might end up being forever, or not…maybe i will need
    August to come back for a while…?
    Could we decide that’s ok?

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  3. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah that’s so beautiful, love how you two are sharing the Grace of August

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  4. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    My dearest how about yes, Just for a little while so I can feel it and maybe show it to some friends, and I will photograph it for myself and get UPS to make me a print then carefully ship it back to you with BIG gratitude tucked in.

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  5. ² Avatar
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    how carefull , and lovely possibility
    between friends
    love goïng a round and around
    make a roundelay on my own

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  6. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    what a wonderful interchange to wake up and read….i was already filled..with tay, with blossoms, with wishing that the morning sun ceremony that i faithfully observe of watching where the sun will rise and how it fills my house each morning .still new to me, still filling me with delight because it is so amazing to watch here..,we move..but i see it travel across a mountain rim, down a sloe and into a notch that becomes so fiery by winter solstice..because i can watch it move across the kitchen wall on one side of the house and into and through a totally different side of the house as the year progresses ..denied by the morning clouds so heavy and gray for days now..
    the words and pictures of the morning were enough..and then there was the lovely exchange between you and michelle..and that brought its own light and warmth into this room..which could be filled with blazing sun right now..but instead i actually have the lights on..so strange in the summer in the early morning…
    it is sill amazing to me that in june the light is creeping into the room soon after 4 am..that is not true in august…but still to be using lamp light…it is a deep gray day..thank you for this and for an august that has stepped into my heart..gentle day grace

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  7. Patricia Avatar

    oh these offerings. the offerings of Tay. the offerings of cloth.
    it’s all just soooooo much

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  8. grace Avatar

    Good then. we’ll share. and no hurry. we can talk
    about when and if i will need August again. and it’s
    a good feeling that you will show to friends there.
    Who knows…that might help the Goat support work. Cloth
    works in mysterious ways.
    love and love…i’ll let you know when it’s in the mail…

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  9. Mo Crow Avatar

    ah coming back here to enjoy Tay’s offerings, the non verbals of interspecies communication are just the best magic on earth

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  10. Jan Avatar
    Jan

    season. in ancient chinese medicine there are five seasons. summer and late summer are considered distinctly. ‘love the conversation you and Tay are having about what is important.

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  11. yvette Avatar

    Tay’s communicatio
    august ends with gifts ..the little bloom too
    hugs

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  12. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    My friends in Massachusetts are sure to love it lots, as I do already and will even more when touch is part of the bargain. Be assured I will be ever so careful with it. This is such a treat Grace….Really REALLY!

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  13. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    SO TRUE–WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND!

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  14. grace Avatar

    we are so reliant on Sun and that is as it should be….
    that dependence….it’s right and good
    light creeping
    light changing
    Light

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  15. grace Avatar

    Tay’s offerings are the most because they are truly all she has

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  16. grace Avatar

    THANK YOU for this…i went, googled, and looked and it truly is So….this, the fifth season it IS

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  17. grace Avatar

    the little bloom gone today. Something that i don’t know but that i just accept. gone. yesterday so possible. today, gone. ok. Try again.

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