where the day went...and a New Plan

where did the day go?

i composted the contents of a forgotten cauldron -

Oxalis pes-caprae had been festering away

since the last week of June

oops.

you have to admit that whatever-it-was

that was thriving in there

looks quite pretty.

but you have to be careful with mould

wouldn't want to be incubating a new and improved

Legionnaire's disease, for example

then i made up a wee book.

the person who showed me years ago

[whose name i have sadly forgotten

...it happened in the very long ago]

called it a 'Diamond Book'

Velma Bolyard calls it an "origami book"

[however if you google origami book 

there's some spectacular stuff 

none of which looks like this one]

however

what never occurred to me

before i took Velma's class

was to prepare a version with pre-printed text

i always have my students make it up

and then just dye it

so now i've put together

"9 things to think about"

stuff about working with plants

that i think is important

and i will be handing them out in class

- thank you Velma!

[if i have them laser-printed

we may still be able to over-dye them]

here's something else that's exercising my brain

the liquid above

was left over from cooking the meal below

which involved purple cauliflower

the liquid left over from steaming the vegetable was purple

so i put some paper in it overnight

to see if it would take colour

it didn't much

but the liquid turned sea green 

[i didn't photograph either the purple or the green versions, bother.]

anyway

this morning it was a screaming pink.

i'm guessing the kaolin in the paper

changed the pH sufficiently to procure the green

and then

the jar sat in the warm overnight

and fermented

causing the pH to drop

and the colour to change again.

magic.

and now the New Plan.

i have decided that from time to time

i will invite people i like and respect

to contribute a guest post.

the first one will come soon.