sew and sow life

yesterday i made this day of the dead tribute to our old kitty "calico",  who died about a year and a half ago. we loved her. for ...

sometimes, out of nowhere there is... a gesture, a scent, a scrap of music, a memory, that reminds us  of both your presence and absence. ...

The Pumpkin Tide I saw thousands of pumpkins last night come floating in on the tide, bumping up against the rocks and rolling up on the b...

flurries!

this was the view from our "bit of earth" this morning. i was imagining setting out on a barge into the mists of avalon... and do...

there's been a rustle, rustle in the neighborhood. my birch friends, all quiet and autumnal. here's a bunch of happy nubians. we met...

the robins are flocking and feasting on the last of the crabapples. the landscape is full... of edges and layers,  of stark patterns and mut...