paper!

 i've been working with hemp

these sheets are hemp top that i processed

in Zone 4's valley beater

 using three pigments procured 

from melbourne etching

caput morte, raw sienna, terre vert.

learning to manage retention aid after too many years.

 and a sweet message arrived from seattle with the 

prospectus for Jim Koss's new book

 and these special needles,

thank you Kate!

 save pulp

 the beater/press room at Zone 4

 hemp sliver half beaten

yesterday's batch was a fine warm white hemp sliver

looking forward to seeing how the pigments work on this stuff.

 this beater and i have some history

 lovely stuff

 just before finishing.

just under 2 hours of beating.

my hannah sent me this lovely bone feather

that i can string and wear.

and so far the weekend is only half over!

worlds turn

this morning i was reminded again

of beauty,

mortality,

and human doings.

it's rained so much here

and where i was out west, not enough.

not enough and forest fires

too.

i am feeling normal and fit now

i can lift pulp-filled buckets again.

 this sign placed by my new amish neighbors has a subscript:

no sunday sales

 the semintals look on

  i love her piebald face hiding behind goldenrod

her tiny whiskers sunlit

 sunshine

 on cattle

 here's their pasture

with all the things:

woodhenge, signage, machinery, 

that woodsy area on the right borders my place

 across the road is their old stripey barn

 robin's eggshell on my drive

 this week i printed

and 

made paper

(paper photos to come)

 these were pretty fine

 and the pot is fine, too

 terra enamel diaper pot.

sort that one out for fun!