- Hill Country colors

This is a box of rocks ... part of my morning exercise, which consisted of hauling them from the floodplain to a front garden bed. But it's the piece of cloth in the middle that has me really excited ...

Limestone (white and grey rock) and oxidized chert cobbles

along with the other pieces on the drying rack below ...

which were all dyed with Prairie Tea, which came back after a 5" rain last month ...

Notice the grass below has dried out after 4 weeks with no rain

While I was hoping for a yellow like my original Prairie Tea dyeing, I was delighted to find that results this time around reminded me of the colors on the floodplain ...

Not to mention the critters that hang out there ...

Moth(?) feeding on Snow-on-the-Mountain

The closer I looked at the marks left behind, the happier I got ...

And how about this? I bundled up all my loose patches and pinned them into a piece of yellow linen shirting, then hung the Prairie Tea-soaked bundle up to dry, resulting in some strong rust-colored marks ...

Who knows where this may lead ...

West Trail to the floodplain ... purposefully winding to minimize flood damage