Trees, read all about them..Art as resistance

Medical bulletin: dentist is now happening Wednesday. The cardiologist nurse called all's stable with the heart valve, good news. Good to know something's stable these days.

Here's the current reading, since I've used up this month's allowance on Hoopla, so Mary Wesley is on hold till November. But this is a great change, well written and really absorbing reading.

I'm learning so much. And I'm interested to note that this writer compares beeches to elephants, too, as I do. The grey skin and clear community -- there's a natural virgin  beechwood in the Preserve -- are very elephant-like.

The beech forest in the Preserve, though small, has its own ecology. I've experienced it as several degrees cooler in summer, warmer in winter, than the surrounding land. It's a community and you can sense its atmosphere when you walk in it.  Reading Wohlleben, I'm starting to understand what's going on there.

And while majestic trees are running their slow,  organized world, puny humans are doing their best

I've said it so often. Art will save us all.

Closer to home, a quick make happened. This cashmere jacket, about 30 years since I got it at the thrift store, and converted it from a v neck sweater, now has a new life.

It's now wrist warmers and a beret, about an hour's work. With more fabric left for other purposes, once I decide on them.

Knitted beret I made ages ago, used as a size guide to chalk around 

Hemming completed, ready to run elastic through 

Like this 

 

What the well dressed international spy wears when she puts away the summer hat 

It's our flag, too, all of them, sez Ted and Big Ursy.

Happy day, everyone! Resist! Make art, garden, cook, do you!

And Monday  was