i like the word,  Close.  

There has been so much precipitation in Central North California this winter.  This morning,  word that the Spillway of Lake Oroville had broken.  The Hill is very near that Lake.  I startled.  What if the Hill

floated away overnight

Not.  There is good distance.  and Daughter sent me a map so i would understand the area and as i look at it,  i see rivers.  Rivers.  I can smell rivers, still.  and i realize how i am living in two Places already.  How we are built,  really, for change.

 

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i need a back for that Cloth.  What i have is onion skins.  But too yellow so an additional bath of Tea. it's like SUN here,  the heat.  very well might be ok.

 

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scooped up some sludge from the walnut vat and put in this aluminum pot to float some cloth which came out so softly marked,  not for this Cloth i'm working on,  but will be for others someday.

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how the Hollyhocks winter over.   The exquisitely sharp feeling seeing this today.  How for so many years this is taken for granted.  The Beauty of how they do things….nestle against a rock or piece of wood and take shelter enough to winter over.

 

 

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10 responses to “Close”

  1. Mo Crow Avatar

    (((Grace))) you can grow Hollyhocks in the desert, you have created such a magic oasis round your raft!

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  2. Liz A Avatar

    “How we are built, really, for change”
    Words to live by

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  3. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Will there be hollyhocks at Hill-House where rivers run?

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  4. jude Avatar

    i’ve a pot of walnut sludge. deep like a mirror, a dark river, when you stare into it.

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  5. vicky aka stichr Avatar

    i watch the news, for news on the yuba river area in CA. so many rock slides, floods, washed out roads…snow snow and more snow. over flow from bullards bar…that hasn’t had that much water in YEARS.i would be FREAKED out if i were there now.
    your hill. can’t wait to see your toes in the dirt there.

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  6. grace Avatar

    the Land and i have done that. The hollyhocks are so easy
    in N Mex…for whatever reason, it’s GOOD for them

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  7. grace Avatar

    i am seeing that we ARE. I wouldn’t have necessarily said that
    a while ago, but i am seeing that it’s true

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  8. grace Avatar

    maybe. I don’t know about taking seed yet. Need to research
    and find out if it is ecologically compatible

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  9. grace Avatar

    i love my sludge. just love it. out there, in its pot

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  10. grace Avatar

    just now a phone call from Alyssia. Fate’s mother, Ashley, from Oroville. Headed to Alssia’s house with her mother, Cherie who lives with her now and her older son Elijah, age 7 and then Our Fate…notice to evacuate. Waiting for an update.

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