double click….right in center….in the gap of the wood of the retaining wall????   i give water,  and soon,  i am not alone.  They appear,  in these cracks,  peeking out,  watching.   Tree Frogs.    During the Winter Rains,  there are hundreds.  Where are they all now?   But as i bring water…some.  I think to reassure me, …

that first time we were allowed to go back to Hill…Jenny arrived first and had begun giving Water in Wall Garden.  She took this pic.   Messaged it to me.   it has such Meaning to me that it Had Such Meaning to her….Hollyhock.  Last bloom of the Season…Hollyhock,  that had just appeared  on the Hill, in…

  alyssia had sent me a copy of this book  years ago.   i didn't read it.  took it  to the Library Book Sale.   First,  it's fiction,  but second,  it's dystopic fiction…….dystopic.   She handed her copy of it to me the other day.  Didn't say anything. They took down the road blocks yesterday.  We all went. …

  these are the pics i loaded Tuesday,  late afternoon.  I'd been thinking a lot of things,  all day.  Intensely.  Was lost in those things when it became darker,  the color of the world more metalic brass colored.  Alyssia arrived to change the Ice  and after just a very short time said maybe you should…

We are safe.  Fire about 2 miles from Hill.  It all depends on Wind.   Thank you all for the love….love back

Because she cannot not blog right now… “We are evacuated. Don’t know more than that. Are in a parking lot. Love” jude

  this doll arrived here some months ago  and has sat quietly in one of the scrap baskets,  seen and touched many times a day,  but faceless,   quiet,  simply,  here.    i have thought…..what is it i need to give her? This morning,   in just a few minutes,  she had her Face….as if it was…

didn't have time to stitch a stitch today but just stopping now and then,  looking at the pile of this Blanket Letter,  just seeing how one scrap lays  next to  another,  just seeing almost all of those strips stitched in place and secured…enough.  More than enough for Happiness.  and how lucky is that. right now, …

they stayed later than Alyssia had intended.  Emrie had things she needed to do.  She needed us,  me and her,  to build a tower with her blocks.  A certain kind.   She needed to dump out the entire basket of her stuff to find all the parts she could of her little horse's  fence and gate…

  the Letter Blanket needs SPACE….needs space to spread out.   Can be on the PCV,   hanging,  but then needs space for stitching.   i try.   Try to work OutSide on this close table,  on the table in the forest,  but….Goats come.  Jump.  Climb.  Interfere. Goats. it's a Goat World here.  is just how it is. …