the rocks and log are in place and now stones.  she has one in her left hand.  the first. with this,  i begin to be able to see what else will appear.   it's good.

if you google search:   vimeo Lisa Ross    there are three.   The one Joy linked us to:   To Mark a Prayer   Daylight Living Shrines  Lisa Ross  uploaded by Mark Chase    in which she speaks about the Work Uyghur Holy Sites  2002 -  2011   the Holy Sites and the people who care for them i…

Post of  10~29    Being Unable to Choose     the last comment there from Joy in  Az.   dear Her,  DEAR  her……..she gives a LINK to Living Shrines Vimeo…please.   Please go see.    I didn't go back there today,  to Uyghur China.     They came…Alyssia, Jenny and Emrie…part to bring the   "ordered" stuff"…..dog food   chicken food …

for sure,  double click.  Please. why do i love what i love?    those Shrines….the 113 images,  photographs,  of sticks or wood.  to which raw fragments of cloth have been affixed.   in a STARK landscape.   What i feel feel as i look at them is just a deep and so sensuous LOVE.    Of what?, …

don't forget to click the pics. that post yesterday….i used the word installation.   incorrectly.   very loosely,  humorously,  and in accordance to my own interpretation.   Maybe just as:  materials gathered and arranged in a temporary form,  the interpretation of which maybe is only Seen,  Known to and by the gatherer but that may be recognized as…

Snake and Crow discuss Toads

  B Garden took a hit from the "weather" phenomenon.   I couldn't bear to take a pic.   But….there,  under the Yellow Daisy bush…these.   about 4 ",  the largest.    After triage,  i came back up to look in the beautifully photographed Mushrooms of California  pamphlet.      I found   White Matsutake/Pine Mushroom.     Cap and…

Tay.   She is Catahoula X…probably with Australian Shepard  as is common in New Mexico ranch dogs.  The Catahoula is very dominant.    She's 7,  maybe 8.   My old dog Chinche was getting  more  old,  getting deaf and i needed a "gate dog".  I told my Goat friend Jan who said to get in touch with…

so they left late Saturday afternoon and as they were leaving the Rain picked up.    Within in an hour or so,  it began…that  Atmospheric River.   Deluge.  but more.   There is  NOTHING  but Rain.   And i  went to sleep,  glad we had gotten the bedding straw.  Glad for the day.  Glad for the Us.   …

a while back,  2 maybe 3 weeks ago.  Maybe a month.    I moved all of these Super Max size Zip Locks of scraps that fill the bench seat across from me into that back room.    All these months,  over a year, 2 or how many i don't really know,  i had moved them…