The garlic I planted outside is pushing up scapes, now that the indoor pot is done
Pictures to show size against houses, foliage, bark. The leaves are purplish like my Japanese maple, but the leaves are not maple. The trunk looks like a cherry to me. No blossom.
Any help gladly accepted by neighbor Karen and me.
But the tree books did come in handy as models for a few minutes of drawing
Yesterday's Textiles and Tea featured Sarah Saulson, a weaver largely of commissioned Jewish prayer shawls , observing the ritual rules of the two thousand year tradition, while applying her own inventive design
She also creates other woven artworks such as these three pieces, retirement gifts for three physicists, each noting their key work in the field, using graphs from papers they'd written.
And garments like these
Where she paints the warp with dyes
She's also active with weavers in Ghana, Guatemala and India in the WARP (Weave a Real Piece) project where artists from different cultures and traditions work together.
Here she's showing the strip weaving work of Guatemalan women, in their case to be worked on a backstrap loom
In the course of searching for the tree books, I came across an old book of Larry cartoons, had to share a few favorites
Happy day everyone. Yesterday a brave New Jersey lady testified in the January 6 hearings. Cassidy Hutchinson is from Pennington, a skip up the road from here.
NJ sends many stars, Queen Latifa, Bruce, Bon Giovi, and writers, Joyce Carol Oates, John MsFee, sports stars, politicians, Booker, Katzenbach (stood up to Nixon) loads of great folks. Alas we also own Christie and Alito, further down the animal kingdom.
But Cassidy may prove to be the greatest mover and shaker of all, if she brings down TFG. Let's hope.
I confess to forgetting that daylilies are actually Day lilies because they bloom in such profusion that I forget about the brevity of individual flowers. They are great plants. I have a row of them tight beside the driveway, and they do well there.
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinating to see history being made. Quite the day for the hearing yesterday. She is a brave woman!
ReplyDeleteThe mystery tree definitely looks like some type of Prunus -- an ornamental plum, maybe? We have a similar one in the back garden. When it blooms that will help with the identification. Ours has small white flowers.
ReplyDeleteYour purple-ish tree might be a flowering plum. Nice blossom in spring if it is. The weaving is fabulous. F is envious of the time it takes to develop such skill.
ReplyDeleteThe tree has not not blossomed. That's one of the mysteries! It's mature enough and other blossoming trees have had their season of blooms.
ReplyDeleteYes, my plant app suggested cherry plum. So- give it another year and see if it blooms?
ReplyDeleteI, too, sat in wide-eyed disbelief yesterday as Ms. Hutchinson unrolled the sequence of events as she witnessed them. History indeed! And a sordid one.
Phew.
Lovely weaving and dying!
I hope she's getting protection since Trump and his supporters are all in on violence.
ReplyDeleteThose Larry cartoons are hilarious, especially "putting the cutlery on the table" and "trimming the pastry."
ReplyDeleteLarry was great. Loved the oven door as table.
ReplyDeleteSorry I can't help with tree identification but have to say it looks really pretty. Hopefully it's a bloomer in the spring.
ReplyDeleteWomen, historically, have had to be brave on so many fronts. I, like Ellen above, hope that she has protection.