more winter photos, guest photographer

post #409
              Rebecca was up early two days ago, took the dogs for a walk before work, and went to some familiar places -- which welcomed them with winter wonders that would soon melt away. Thanks, R, for how open you are to this place on earth that you love. I am very moved by these four photos you took.

    [.... I've decided on a new term:  PIP, i.e. post in progress. . . . ] The first two additions to this post this evening show the prep the day before Morehead University's annual Arts and Crafts Festival  -- with over 100 juried vendors. It felt like it was held earlier than usual since the first Saturday in December this year came on the 1st.

my 10 x 10 space -- thank goodness this is held in the old gym and not outside, because we had a fair amount of rain during the Friday setup time and the Saturday event day. It's always fun to visit with various people who stop by the "booth".  Thanks as ever for your support!!

Fiber artist Jennifer Reis, my friend and former booth-mate, is diagonally across the aisle. She had to work all day so didn't get started on the setting up until later Friday afternoon. Of course, she did a great job, photo to follow:. She shared her booth this year with Dustin, who has taken up broom making!

show in progress, on Saturday

       To wrap up for now, I am sharing two spring photos.  As beautiful as the snow can be, it comes with long dark nights and uncertain road conditions.  I like to be reminded that spring will be here before we know it. I realize it's not yet even officially winter, but I'm very aware that folks in North Carolina and my friend Sue and family in southwest Virginia are having a hard stormy time this weekend, and I wish them well. We seem to be just a bit too far north to have gotten any of it.

leaves and seeds I've seen

post #360
       FIRST, information about the upcoming annual Appalachian Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair, at Morehead State University, on Saturday, December 2, 2017, 9 a.m until 4 p.m.! It's sponsored by the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead but located in the Laughlin Health Building at the east end of the MSU campus. I wasn't able to take part the last two years, but now I'm up and running again, so I hope the weather is good and a lot of people can turn out.  Later that day the annual Hometown Holiday takes place along Morehead's Main Street, starting at 5 pm. I heard that the Barbershop singing group is pulling together for a return to the Barbershop that evening! It may be more than a quartet, i.e. featuring four or more happy-to-be-singing-again guys.

        AND NOW, today's weekly post, this time using many of the photos I seem to be making lately of leaves and seeds -- pretty basic stuff. However, even I don't recognize as many leaves as I'd like to. Consider these photos a celebration, a reminder about how life renews itself despite human efforts sometimes to pretend that's not what's needed to keep our one world functioning, healthy and spinning.

APPLES IN MY MOTHER'S CEMETERY, IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, MID OCTOBER

WINESAP APPLES, NEAR MY HOME,  LATE SEPTEMBER

HERITAGE APPLES, IN A MASSACHUSETTS FOOD COOP, MID OCTOBER

 As we all probably know, apple seeds are inside all these picked fruit! However, not all "seed pods" are as delicious as single juicy apple....

AND CERTAINLY NOT THESE BEAN PODS

THESE HEIRLOOM TOMATOES HAVE DELICIOUS SEEDS.

 I took both these milkweed seed photos in New England -- but they do the same thing down here in eastern Kentucky.  To catch the seeds with their spectacular "wings", the trick is to find them between "ready to fly off" and "dry weather that is not yet too windy".

MILKWEED

Now some leaves, starting with these two photos of YELLOW-POPLAR leaves:

IN THE POND

IN GEORGE ELLA AND STEVE'S YARD

 

MY DRIVEWAY WONDER

DOGWOOD

ON NEWLY PAVED "SIDEWAY ROAD"

TRYING OUT MY NEW 50mm LENS!

FOR THE RECORD - IS THIS AN INVASIVE TREE OF HEAVEN? IF NOT, WHAT IS IT?

FUTURE SOIL, A FEW YEARS FROM NOW

 

SOME CAME FROM THESE EMPTY LIMBS.

OTHER LEAVES END UP ON THE POND.

MOSTLY BEECH

This is enough for today.  I now "leaves" you until next week.

P.S. A repeat. This is what the web says about the FAIR:
KFAC’s annual Appalachian Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair will be held at the Laughlin Health Building on December 2, 2016, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Appalachian Arts and Crafts Fair offers visitors a wide and varied selection of regional arts and crafts, ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge, and it includes holiday decorations. More than 100 vendors participate.

post-Thanksgiving post

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       Not able to let this season go. Still wondering if I should have had my small field bush-hogged this fall or whether a spring mow will catch the encroaching woods in time. Loved the huge moon week, especially driving all the way back from Lexington in the light of its glory. Knowing next weekend is the annual Arts and Crafts Fair at Morehead State University, where I have shared a booth with the very talented and fun Jennifer Reis for years -- but not this year since I continue to work on my major move which has brought on a total review of everything I own, saved, or didn't know I had.  This is good. This takes a lot of time. This needed to happen. Anyway, I plan to go to the Fair, and I encourage everyone within range to go see what's showing. I hear that more artists/crafters than ever before applied to take part this year.  9-4, Saturday, at the Laughlin Health Building on the MSU campus. Tell Jennifer I encouraged you to go to the Fair to check out her art jewelry and knitted items!
       I know I said that last week's photos were the last fall ones for this year, but then I saw what I saw. ... So the photos today are from this past week.  The first ones are from our pond, and the dog is my daughter's:
 

Who cares if the pond is chilly??!! A pond is a pond is a pond!

same reflection from two vantage points on the dam for the pond:

During a walk near to where I am now living:

I could barely see the mist with my bare eyes, but it was brief in any case. 

SIDEWAY GALLERY -- my Gallery/home from across the road. I am so fortunate to have found this place five years ago, so close to where I lived until this fall.

 Then there was the walk in the woods while the Thanksgiving turkey was cooking:

Lots to be grateful for, lots to wonder at, and lots to look for if we pay attention. I want to give special thanks for all the friends nearby who have been helping me so far in this physical changing of places I've been experiencing -- Doug and Karen, Ann S., Molly, George Ella, Melva, and, this Thursday, Bob and Carolyn -- and especially Rebecca, Jeremey and T., whose patience and steady assistance have made it all possible. More on all this later - it is not over yet!  See you at the Fair, Saturday.