These are broccoli stalks.  There's also some cauliflower stalks.   They didn't grow any broccoli or cauliflower florettes to speak of but they did have magnificant stalks and magnificant leaves.  We weren't sad about that.  It was the leaves we loved in the Morning Stir Frys.  You might remember they were beset by aphids.  And…

Madder   Indigo!!!!!! I had started both of these inside,  care FULL y   following instructions.  Peat pots.   They sat in the window.  And grew.  And the rain didn't stop when expected.  So they grew inside longer.  Their stems became spindly and leaned and leaned toward the available sunlight.  There were days when it was so…

not quite the size of a dime.   The pleasure of  fragments,  their wild threads.   The symbol of Wind,  Spirit,  Essence. These keep me where i need to be.

no rain today and Talkie could resume her habits.  One of which to come to the Janet Chair right outside the door at her appointed time of early evening.  It's her Beauty Shop.  She sits and grooms all her feathers,  it takes about 45 minutes.  She's very precise. Feather by feather.  Taking time to look…

for some short time this morning,  the color of things was exactly right.  Or,  from the phone camera and Google pics.  It was just right.  i have no idea how it will come through here.  But needed to try.  ONE MORE TIME.  and now,  i will let it go.   here again.  I hope it's…

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…

i can't get the colors right.  An overcast day,  but in an odd way, oveercast,  and it's just not happening,  no matter what i try.  It's kind of this,  but so much more BRIGHTER. but it's an aching.  I want this.  but i also know i can't use so much of Deb's cloth.  I looked…

it says on the back….Initiation  Spring  2018 held it today and added stitches,  invisible stitches   because  i'd not done that before,  had not done the stitching to make it One.   Today,  it was time to do that.    And it was time to place the Welcoming Crow.   I did that.   Now i hold it and…