[ An aluminum cupcake tray. The hollows hold beads in a couple shades of blue & silver, and some white seaglass pieces wrapped in tarnished copper wire. Atop the tray are spools of copper wire, a piece of driftwood, & a tube from a wind chime. ] What I started with!
[ The lakeshore: a narrow channel of water with muddy banks. Behind that is a low hill crowned with pines. ] It was a bit chilly to want to be under trees, so instead I took the boys down to the lake for the afternoon. Tom … was not really comfortable with that much water.
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[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, walks across a rough dirt parking lot. Behind him are tall radio antennae & a small green maintenance building. ] After we got down from the lookout tower (or at least the paved area around it) I headed back to the van but the boys wanted
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that a day that starts with this view … [ An outcropping of red rock, perhaps fifty feet tall, with pinyon trees & a couple of boulders at the foot. ] … is gonna end with a view from MUCH higher up.
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[ The view up a steep slope. There are a few evergreens in the background, but most of the trees are leafless aspens, with tall, straight white trunks. ] Last Friday, in a fit of being entirely incapable of dealing with the world, I stuffed the boys in the van & drove up Mount Taylor.
[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby wearing a black harness, is sitting on a big red rock under evergreen trees, looking up & to the right. ] Or up, as the case may be.
it’s Dramatical Posing all the way down Read More »
[ A view up maybe twenty feet of a rocky slope, with evergreen trees at the top. ] Just a little bit of a hill, but such treasures at the top!
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[ A good stick, a bunch of copper wire, & some beads. ] Above, the ingredients!
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[ Major Tom, a big grey tabby, looks out the side door of the van with wide eyes. ] Tom had some Opinions about taking another walk. (He COULD have stayed at the van. I never make them follow me. They just DO, & then whine about it a lot.)
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[ In the foreground, a couple of pine trees & about twenty feet of rock-covered ground. Beyond that, the view opens up, looking down onto dense forest with blue sky above. ] It was SUCH a gorgeous spot. I wish the road to get there weren’t so rough — Tom had Opinions about it, &
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