detour

 detour: oswegatchie river
 i've been passing this by
everyday on the detour home
friday the horse team was absent, work done
it was hard to get a good photo
(huge lines were in my way)
 but the changeable weather
made for light shows
 at home
 the leaves opened up
 for the lights
~~~
 i looked at two little abaca sheets
i had placed in a bundle
 and i learned something new
besides the ecoprints,
 the fern inclusions
from long ago
took up the dye color
and become dark presences.
nifty!

a mid august rain

afternoon rain came sunday
thunder growled
an hour 
then it finally 
rained and rained
wendy hid out, fearful, as usual
and i worked on hard pages
in shifu 
finishing four in two days
and this morning
fog and damp
blanketing the porch table
the screens
my skin
and a home 
 foggy interlude today
time to work
and think about things to come
plans coming to fruition
a visit, two, three, more
a trip, two, three, more
and then school again 
a web for gin, who photographs spiders 
close-up