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A day off work and an early morning visit to the beach with coffee, my journal and some stitching...
Couldn't do much stitching, it was breezy and the fabric kept flipping up.
Really all I wanted to do was keep taking deep breaths.
Sitting below the trail I can hear snippets of conversations as people walk by.
Everyday conversations mostly.
Thinking about what we feel the need to share with others.
And what we hold close, keep tight.
Indigo leaf on cotton, hammered.
I am going to take some fabric and my hammer to work work soon and let some of the children try.
Lily pollen used as water color paint (at work with some of the three year olds.)
Play is full of what ifs. Maybe it's the same thing.
Field note update: It's been 50 days since it rained here according to the local newspaper. We are days from setting a record for the longest stretch without rain...but probably won't make it as it's supposed to rain on Friday. That would tie us for 2nd longest stretch without rain on record.
(Any rain we've had has been "trace amounts" and it seems that doesn't count for record keeping.)
It didn't rain enough...so I have been watering.
The fennel could take a bit more drought, but the strawberries planted beneath them couldn't. Yesterday was such a relief, it was below 70 most of the day, below 65 even. Today has been smokey, pink sunshine. Not too hot, but kind of muggy.
We are supposed to go back up into the 80's for a couple days. I've prepped food to nibble on so I don't have to cook.
Last night, a dinner of things to nibble on: local cheese, olives, flat bread and zucchini butter.
Sunrise 5:45 AM. Sunset 8:47 PM.