After  the Master Gardner's Plant Sale,   we set off to a nursery near Daughter's apartment in Chico.  Actually,  just around the corner.   Little Red Hen Nursery in search of Native Lilac.  The Master Gardners had started some,  had them going,  but then they were forgotten with watering and alas,  none for sale.  There were none…

      the pics uploaded outof order,  so you will need to rearrange them.  But I am driving to the Master Gardener's Plant Sale in Durham.   Using my PAPER  AAA Road map that i got last Thursday.  A PAPER map!   i drew the route with a pencil.  Was going to check it out with…

maybe # 3.      more erasing.  maybe # 4 or 5   let it go for now. From Acey's   WORK….Alchemical Ritual.l   Sparkling Lotus Ink  10-15 post "the idea of choices in self-presentation being  important" "How i was choosing to be seen by all the other species here on this small piece of land where…

  there is a lot of it here,  everywhere and used along highways and freeways …with its deep roots and drought tolerance, for slope stabilization and erosion control.   It is MAGIC in the variety of colors it assumes in this season and the patterning of those colors.  Enlarge them.  In the first,  that thin green…

 up,  above Alyssia's hood.   See her?   in the branches?   Talkie.   They were here later than usual,  getting dark,  and Talkie,  muttering her chicken things outside and i happened to look and NOTICE  her in the Morning Tree,  out…out the branch over Alyssia's car.  The evening before,  when Alyssia went to put Emrie in her car…

    they built this when they knew we were coming.  We arrived in December.   Rain.   Desert Goats,  desert old woman.  So they built it.   Up until a week ago it had a tarp for a roof.   The roof materials came and went on.  A gallon of heavy duty preservative paint sat here.  Everyone was…

i came away with a pear,  an oak gall,  a smudge stick that children had made.  2 pods of Love in the Mist,  seeds inside.     everything was free.  The food tent,  4 things,  one gluten free,  2 vegetarian,  1 pork.  I got some of each.  You got your plate and fork and moved…

Alyssia, Julian,  Emrie,  Tay and i went today to Paradise it was a Celebration of the Permacuture Restoration Camp Week. I'd not yet gone to Paradise.  It will be a year,  November 8. about a half hour away.  We took two vehicles so i would get the route imprinted by driving,  Tay and i alone. …

often splits into two,  sometimes 3.   This one easily 80 ft tall.  Branches swooping up and down and both,  the same branch.  They sing.  Those pineapple sized cones contain nuts,  hard to get to and very hard shelled.  Same as pinion in New Mex,  but those you can crack with your teeth.  These,  pliers.  A…

Cloth has begun to speak.