well content

aint' life grand.

people have been saying some very nice things about

Second Skin

for which i am grateful

i think much of the credit should go to 

Toyoko for putting my words and pix

together so beautifully

and to Janine for her eagle-eyed editing

aside from being grateful each morning

for waking up breathing [as opposed to not breathing]

i'm also very grateful that i am able to make a living doing so many things that i love to do. which include, but are not limited to, dyeing stuff, a lot of running stitch, wandering around the whirled, telling stories, making a few frocks, doing a bit of writing

and

spending a morning or two on my knees in the beautiful place below*

collecting windfalls

the [photo-stitched] image is of a dam, put in back in 1997

 the trees around it were planted by my father

many of them grown by Ian Doyle

through Trees for Life 

now these trees are making seeds

that in turn will grow to trees elsewhere on the property

potential for contentment yet to come

and a note for those in two minds whether to react to the previous post
- am delighted to say that nine folks have already signed up
just a few spaces left...


*on knees by side of dam, rather than IN it...