stealing beauty

the spirit
likes to dress up like this:

ten fingers,
ten toes,
shoulders,

and all the rest at night

in the black branches,
in the morning

in the blue branches of the world.
-Poem by Mary Oliver

sailing is still romantic

Gold Lake
We went sailing.
The boat was a 25 year old canoe trimaran:
Amigo Bob Cantisano at the helm.
The sound of sailing - wind and water
gentle creaks and ropes against wood.
On the way home we stopped at a spring to fill up water bottles.
I picked a wild azalea.

the day was good

Mama Spider

I discovered a little spider in North San Juan.
She has a small studio with a big window overlooking a garden
where the humming birds play in the trumpet vine.
She weaves beautiful things on enchanting wooden looms.



The little spider is also an amazing mama of two, a farmer and the co founder of Sierra Seed Co-operative (saving and distributing local seeds in Nevada County).
I was inspired to do
and make
and grow
and weave

and paint a wall orange one day.


Thank you Rowen.

(take a looksee)
This is the place
http://willowspringsnsj.org
this is the spider
http://mamaspider.wordpress.com

sometimes called Bronx vanilla...

...or Italian perfume, it is also known to ward off vampires, the Evil Eye, and the jealous nymphs said to terrorize pregnant woman and engaged maidens. All that and an aphrodisiac too.

We pulled up the garlic.
A lot of garlic.
We laid it out to dry under the madrone with the leaves pointed up hill so the juices would drain into the bulb



We braided it to sell at market for vampire hunters and optimistic lovers.

a golden horse

called Solomon.

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.
Solomon is the neighbors horse.
You can call him when you are in the out field and he comes slowly walking.
Yesterday I fed him oats and thistle at sunset.
Everything was golden: Solomon's coat and blond locks, the tall dry grass and I was wearing a yellow dress.

beginning with supper...

chilled cucumber and avocado soup
2 bean salad with corn and day lilly's
grilled veggies
a bottle of rose