blueberries are purple and me

file under: summer day thing (heaven)::::::::::went blueberry picking with finn and cody and jane of this very saturday afternoon in july

the prairie placard project

file under: took part in/ witnessed a magical art event:::::

my favorite thing, eliza's tent--she lifted this tent off the ground-- at the peak of the magic hour--as she sang a song about weeds and wildflowers
spiderwort & sneezeweed! you cannot be me

my poem-in-the-grass---"wild-smooth" I die and heap up my tiny

katie with megaphone and trees (she who made all of this happen)

prairie baby with wild daisy, take 5

closeups

file under: took a bad-mood trip to the cedar river with the dog and the baby-- on a sour day with the need for escape::::::::;and then decided to take only very close-ups-----and left feeling a little bit better

beautiful food from a teaparty plus morning sunlight things

file under: teaparty habit witnessed:::::codi's beautiful foods: scone, tomato soup, dancing bruschetta!

file under: witness to sunlight::::again from this morning, the sun was doing its thing to the curtains in my room

finn in sunlight

file under: natural beauty witnessed::::::::::my sun-splotched baby swinging under a linden tree of a july morning,with so many shadows/pieces of light.

birds, loves, greens

file under: moving things observed in the sky:::::birds over reno park at the magic hour file under: sleep action witnessed::::my loves, my sleepies

file under:things i've planted or otherwise allowed to live, part 2:::::

kale & swiss chard growing big

african lion's-tail about to bloom

this is amaranth

hi to the walls, walls-of-my-room

file under: a space i've been steadily making my own:::::my writing room upstairs; we switched around rooms in june--so, my walls my walls my friendly walls--

"whales are happy", "brother painting", "third trimester creature drawing"
bulletin board top left

bulletin board top right

the view from where i write, window/tree, geologic time chart, still-life photograph by aleta

"animal patternnear mountains" drawing by aleta

the best library

file under: a new favorite finn thing to do::::::
hang out at the library--on the slide, up the stairs, at the train-table, with the barn +barnyard animals (all in his new favorite sweater that wendy embroidered his name on!)

ideas for a poem book and then a poem bag

file under: undertook a gathering-together of thoughts:::::today i was excited to finally sit down and figure out if all these poem-threads i've been throwing out all year could maybe come together someday to form a cohesive poem-book file under: sewing project completed for the store i love, home ec:::::home ec issued a contest call for bags of all types last month--they'll be up for silent auction and the proceeds will go to breast cancer research--also if i win i get a home ec shopping spree! anyway it was really fun to make--it's another pattern from amy karol's awesome book, Bend-the-rules Sewing--and then plus i got to stitch (and rub-a-dub marker) some alice notley lines into fabric, it made me feel something. like poetry is slow food not fast food and that it is delicious.

summer afternoon, i love you

file under: unit of time experienced as a smooth square of air (a very good summer day):::::::::cartwheeling jane, grinning baby in the grass and also the same baby being kissed on the swing and getting ready to go for this very well-documented afternoon stroll to the park. . .

such a thing as a fried squash blossom

file under: farmer's market bounty:::::greens and finn file under: a thing i've never before known:::::fried squash blossoms, fried squash blossoms, fried squash blossoms, fried squash blossoms