The Habit: : September 2022

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Sept 13th- A few of my favorite things...

~Mushrooms who have taken advantage of the rain to grow

~Boneset flowers growing by a rocky edge

~Fuzzy reports from a small weatherman about the seasons to come

Sept 12th- A few of my favorite things...

~Painting words into the impasto of poetry

~Experience that embraces a poem and sees a mirror within

~A play that reframes a poem into a larger canvas that still resonates about dreams 63 years later

Sept 11th- A few of my favorite things...

~Orange Daylilies bursting forth in their last days of glory

~Orange Jewelweed fading in summer's last days

~Orange Zinnias bridging summer into fall

Sept 10th- A few of my favorite things...

~Lines of light scattering outward from the setting sun

~Colors painting the sky shifting from gold to orange

~The contrast of celestial lines and terrestrial ones in the evening's color show

Sept 9th- A few of my favorite things...

~A trip to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute to see an American master storyteller in paint 

~Seeing how Norman Rockwell turned an ordinary slice of life into a cover story 

~Finding a bit of yourself in the human experience recorded by a skillful hand...and giving it a try

Sept 8th- A few of my favorite things...

~An ant working the third shift 

~A wood louse scurrying from the light

~A perfect web awaiting a client

Sept 7th- A few of my favorite things...

~Recycling and old coffee can 

~Layering straw and starter grain spawn

~Watching the first of the oyster mushrooms you planted on vacation begin to grow...a yummy way to carry the summer memories on into the fall!

Sept 6th- A few of my favorite things...

~A gift for the model-building sister from her sister 

~Figuring out how to turn 387 pieces into a squirrel

~Finishing your model just in time for fall

Sept 5th- A few of my favorite things...

~A bright yellow cottonwood leaf

~A vivid yellow silver maple leaf

~A sunshiny yellow black walnut leaf joined by it's friends standing in for the sun on a rainy day