Signs of rooting about in our paths and gardens led us to believe it might have been dug by an armadillo. This morning, I made a confirmed sighting.
Sigh.
They really are pests and we should probably live-trap and move it. But what if it's a mama dillo?
I dunno.
Anyway, I pulled out my old hunk of roadkill dillo, found a few years ago when picking up trash along the ranch road ...
and immediately thought of Jude's stacked running stitch (which I've been "seeing" in everything lately).
Patch #140 is what I made of it ...
I rendered both in monotones the better to see just the patterning. Here's the colorized version ...
