[ My usual Woods Day workbench is holding TWO hunks of driftwood, a LOT of copper wire, a tangle of three different pieces of jewelry, & several ziploc bags holding MORE jewelry. Optimism! ] I got REALLY ambitious last Saturday. Surely I could finish TWO faery home decor pieces! Right? Right?
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[ Bright yellow many-petalled flowers on tall green stalks ] Venus Park, if you take a quick look at it from the road, is a large, rectangular area of green grass that’s obvious watered on the regular, surrounded by brown, scrubby land that’s pretty typical of New Mexico. Take a closer look with me.
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, is giving one of the tires of my van a VERY thorough sniffing. ] I had to take a trip to Albuquerque earlier this week, & I was staying overnight, so of course the boys came along. We tucked ourselves up in a truck stop in
[ A tall, straight pinyon pine dominates the photo; behind it, a scattering of other trees, a cliff of rough red stone, & above that, blue sky. ] I didn’t do Woods Day on Tuesday, as I usually do, because I was having a bad brain day, so I scheduled Auxiliary Woods Day for Saturday.
[ A steep, rocky slope, dotted with pinyon trees & lots of rocks; above that, the sky is dark grey. ] A perfect time to go rock climbing: right as the clouds roll in! … look, I didn’t say it was a GOOD idea.
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I mean LOOK at it, a nice little piñon grove, a seasonal creek behind low-growing cottonwoods & tall grass (alas, dry at the moment), & behind that, an entire-ass CLIFF to climb.
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[ A no trespassing sign is posted n a tree trunk that leans towards a dirt road. A thick cable is locked to the tree as well, & stretches across the road, though it’s laying on the ground & doesn’t really block anything. ] I found this sign right next to where I’d set up
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[ A narrow but bendy length of driftwood, copper wire in various sizes, & a couple ziploc bags of beads. ] I had NO idea what I was doing with this one until I found the cool dangly rounds in with a bunch of beads I’d forgotten I had, & then the name happened &
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[ A dense patch of relatively young Ponderosa pines, most with trunks less than six inches wide; the ground is deeply covered in pine needles. ] I found a nice thick patch of woods last Tuesday. Sometimes you want an open meadow; sometimes you just want trees.
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[ An interestingly-weathered tree stump, about two feet high & a foot and a half across. ] When I got to our spot in the woods last Tuesday, I saw this Very Excellent tree stump that I was pretty sure one cat or another would, eventually, use for Dramatical Posing.
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