Walking out in Spring on the fresh mown wild grass with Juno, I took photos with my phone, which look less than great as I’m a lousy phone photographer, but what the heck, it was hard to resist a glimpse of spring on the mountain that is recovering from wildfire for years to come. I have been tremendously busy, for months, out in the landscape working on the fire defensible space project that is all-consuming. On the creative front, I’ve been weaving ultra fine cotton in a series of rigid heddle loom experiments, and on what seems to be an eternal warp, and baking bread a lot, as well as other delicious things, like making chocolate!
Its difficult to believe that I have been weaving — and not knitting — for almost a whole year now, and I think although I don’t ever see slowing down with the weaving, I finally miss knitting. I miss spinning, and dying wools, and blending artful batts on my drum carder, and my Tweed Chronicles experiments too, but where do I find the time to do it all? I am feeling a time crunch and the panic of wildfire season just ahead, thinking to just get past the hard work, only a couple more months. Even though I can feel more at ease this year as the cool temperatures and rain has lasted wonderfully long, lingering and staving off the dry heat, the work presses on . . . and I am older, sore, and tired a lot. Scotty, beam me to late summer when the grass has stopped growing and the bonfires of the next rain season are still off the calendar, when the scorching dry weeks of August through September chase me indoors, desperately needing distraction from it . . . and then, surely there’ll be more time to relax into all of the creative projects!
Oh, stop. You always take good photos. The bread looks absolutely gorgeous!!
I just edited the post, talking about the late summer weeks, scorching August through September seem to be the quiet relaxing months in our lives, where there is not much to be done outside, and all we can do is take shelter. In a blink, it will be so! xx
I’ve been absent from the knitting forums for a while myself with oodles of interesting things going on, however I won’t bore your followers with my life. I’ll pm on Ravelry to you with all the latest and greatest when I have some spare minutes. I have been keenly following along on your weaving adventures, which I just Love to pieces, but I check mail before bedtime and then forget to respond. Unless, like right now, I make the time to let you know how much I look forward to your blog posts and photos. BTW, phone photos are just great when push comes to shove and when the pictures are of such pretty things who really cares what camera you use.
Juno, the bread and weaving, and the unburned, thriving woodland mountains are perfect after a long gray dreary winter. Thank you for the cyber sunshine. Oh! Yes! We were able to see a near complete eclipse here in PA. It was so awesome. We had partial cloud cover so the sunlight making its way through the clouds as a sliver behind the moon made some gorgeous photos. Bizarre and magical and exciting all at the same time.
Okay, off to bed with me. I was up at 5 for my daily 2400 meter swim this morning. Phew! I’m tired thinking about it.
Lots of hugs and love, Virginia
Virginia! Please DO tell us about things going on in your life! I mean, there’s just three or four of us who hang out in the fort, you absolutely can not feel self-conscious! Let the ink flow . . .
Phone photos notoriously the colors are not good, maybe its just cheap phones like mine :)
That is wonderful you were able to see the near-complete eclipse there! Here I couln’t be sure if it was really even happening, but there was a definite “energy” about the place, a sort of quivering feeling.
So great you’re swimming, and travelling and staying beautiful and buzzing about like a busy bee!
Anyway, thank you for your wonderful encouragement, you are a real spark about the blog here! More soon, xx