Promise of changes

I have gotten over the mystery virus.  At least for a couple of weeks.  That is such a relief for me.   Yesterday was the test, going back to the studio. Still have the awful sounding cough, but am able to work in clay, doing hand building at this point.

Just as these pictures show, the seasons will change again, and again.

I hope to go back int the studio daily again.  It's a change that I'm looking forward to so much. 

Though winter has a few more chances to give us snow, I'm thinking, like most of us, toward the springtime.

Today's quote:

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on great winds across the sky.

Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly

Cool down a bit

Lots of snow a couple of winters ago.

Then spring returned with gala colors.

The Tailgate Market offered flowers through the summer

 I offered pottery for sale as well.

The woods changed from greens to brilliant tones.

The seasons flow like the water going downhill.

The changes may be more severe, but still Gaia turns about the sun, tilting and letting us have relief every once in a while.  Patience needed.

Tree Goddess to trees

So when is a tree not a piece of wood?  When I make it as a tree goddess out of clay.  This lovely lady greets visitors now at my front door, outside on the porch!

In other places, nature looks a bit different...

The beach is still there, whenever I go I get charged with all that salty air and sand and water.  What a beautiful place.


Winter didn't look like this, this year.  But I do love having seasons here in the mountains.

My favorite season is fall.

My guess is that someone made a partial dam in the creek just upstream from the ford.  So people have done for millenia around running water.

Spring is greening up in the mountains.  Here in the foreground are some imported plants that didn't fare well through dogwood winter's frost last week.  I say imported, because the volunteers who tend the path and plants around the creek brought these plants here.  They probably are still indigenous.