Saturday, March 12, 2016

- Abundance

After a week of rain ...


it was no great surprise to find a riotous unfolding. 

Dewberry (a wild blackberry in the Rose family which I have long called Briar Rose, incorrectly) ...


led me to revise yesterday's patch in silhouette, as Deb Sposa's students have recently done ...

Completed on March 14

Wandering the floodplain earlier in the day, there was ample evidence of yellow evening primroses, which opened as promised at sunset ...


with the moon as my witness ...


along with the Gaura ...

which also appeared at dusk


Also as promised (to Grace), here are the results of my spring organizing, both cloth ...


and floss, which is wrapped in cloth woven during Jude Hill's Considering Weave ...


And a cloth I dyed last summer using blanket flower at the Outer Banks of North Carolina ...


had faded to pale lilac and gray. But upon finally washing it out today, it blushed as softly green ...

The camera doesn't do this justice ... it's much greener

as this newly-leafed live oak ...


I think it's destined to be today's patch, but as with so many ideas flying through my fevered brain, it will have to wait for another day before being realized (I feel French knots coming on). Update: See March 14 for Patch #72.