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a day with an old Friend, having arrived Some Where,

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belov~ed  Copper Pot 

 


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with Emrie's  "tool",   for size

 


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a universe within

 

day revolved around scrubbing Copper Pot.    letting copper come through years of heat and weather.    it took time and won't go further.  this is good.    good enough.

and it has to do with that sense of having arrived.  with having become what i've been becoming.   there  is   a Calm.   No hurry.  Time enough.   Remembering the pot in the Other Place,  on that makeshift adobe grill out Side,  on the wood stove  In side.  Today….Imagining what might happen,  Here,  next.     No hurry.   There's time enough.   I took  her down to B Garden with me.  To introduce.   Walking back,   she rubbed on the mother of pearl button of my dress making an interesting sound.  I tapped and then again and again and realized that she is also a kind of musical instrument.   Goats liked this.

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12 responses to “a day with an old Friend, having arrived Some Where,”

  1. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Yes hello old friend… I remember our “class” in dyeing in your home in Polvadera in May 2014: we used old friend, cast iron pot, glass jars for solar dyeing on the makeshift outdoor table. It was such a thrill foraging on your land, you had so many good materials as in sumac, Mexican elderberry, coral berry, iris petals. Found a photo that I had taken of our dye station, complete with a clothes line where we hung up some dyed cloths. The dyed cloths made that day became what I called my “Polvadera Collection”. Made a large landscape cloth that had dyed linen and wool, especially loved the wool border because it was many shades of green from gatherings from your land. I still have that cloth and it is hung on one of my bedroom walls.
    These days, I only have two pots, a small copper pot that you gave me and a Larger copper pot that my sister in law gave me that she bought in Morocco. I mostly do solar dyeing and have several glass jars. .
    Someone was speaking of dyeing with pomegranates: years ago I had a wonderful time dyeing with pomegranates. I received a gift of pomegranates and some silk cloth. Used three pots to dye the skins in and got three different results. This was one of the first times that I dyed with silk since I typically use only recycle white cotton cloth…one thing about silk, it readily soaks up color. What was fascinating to me is that using three different pots, resulted in three different colors from the pomegranates. In the copper pot, pomegranate color was golden. In the aluminum pot, the color was purple and in the enameled pot, the color was black! The enameled pot had some dents and rusty bits so that, more than likely, contributed to the black color.

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  2. Liz A Avatar
    Liz A

    I love the turquoise patch of color on the outside of your pot … hopefully a promise of color to come
    and now I’m wondering, with the ongoing triple digit heat in Texas, whether I can do solar dyeing of the dwarf pomegranates in an open copper pot … hmmmm

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  3. CatherinE Avatar
    CatherinE

    I was so excited to find a beautiful copper pot for a reasonable price in an Antique (Junque) store near me. It’s still one of my prized possessions.

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  4. Deb G Avatar
    Deb G

    I am going to start some dyeing projects today. Maybe we will be wandering around the garden at the same time. 🙂

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  5. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Grace such a peace filled post … this 77th year is starting out so fine. Seems you’re aging as beautifully as your copper pot.

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  6. Nancy Avatar
    Nancy

    This is wonderful. Love Emrie’s ‘tool’ too ❤️ It reminds me of antiques I once had and you have me thinking of the iron pot J. found and sad it did not make the move. Oh well. Carry on…

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  7. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    your memories make that part of my life real.
    otherwise…all that would Drift …. off….into…..
    that you remember. so much.
    i brought the pots here. the other two are out around the back. i’ll bring them up. Wash them.

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  8. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think you can. i so envy your pomegranates…mine are eaten so soon in their becoming,
    but some Thing loves them, right?

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  9. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    yes…this one too. that place in Polvadera that was no longer really open…but a note on the doorbell to ring.
    She had a WORLD of things her mother had acquired…this pot being one and she understood what it meant to me and almost GAVE it to me

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  10. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think we WILL….for sure.

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  11. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    it’s funny….the aging is going backwards

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  12. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    not all thing make the move.
    these pots here…do they? I hadn’t even thought of them

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