a short break in an otherwise bleak wet day, i ran down the Hill to harvest the pea pods and good thing. They'd gotten big. Some with the beginning forms of peas. These go in the Breakfast stir fry.
and out of the corner of my eye, i saw movement out on the road, just beyond the gate and went to look. Didn't see what was there but did see this multiple soft green form. This years Oak Galls. Just new. The skin is velvety to touch. Will watch them closely and as soon as i see the Exit, when the wasps leave, i'll harvest them for dye. Before they dry so much.
and the pic yesterday….Mary Lou emailed me to look again. She clicked the pic that is horrible and the clicked pic, so different and so close to how it is….who knows how these things happen….but i was so relieved. Thank You and LOVE, ML Tomorrow, small chance of Rain before Tuesday, so if there is Sun, will photograph again because i saw something i'd not noticed. I looked this morning, thinking about unstitching the central cotton from the glorious ground, but something said WAIT…look! And i see that there is a diagonal line, perfectly in alignment, both cloths. I cannot undo that. And so it is that they remain as is.
and i forgot. I wanted to say this…Journal thing….it occurred to me in the middle of the night, waking to listen to the pounding of raindrops….it occurred to me that i really don't know how rain WOrkS? These kinds of rain here, inches each day and night, so so much water….FALLING FROM THE SKY….how is it that it happens in individual drops? Many of them, but individual??? How is it that way and not just in gushing buckets? I never thought about it before. Will set 9 yo Julian to finding the answer to this question.
Addendum.
so i message him, the 9 yo, with this mission, imagining it to take a few days, if at all. Within 10 minutes
Physics-focus: How Raindrops Form https://physics.aps.org/story/r7/st14 
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