Yard diary cont'd 8-25-08In Urn
A nice alliteration for zapnin outside the back door at raccoon headquarters. A cool 50 degrees upon awakening, and the first of the season morning glory blossom opened near the top of the “dead” tamarack tree, in spite of the chill. We've been patiently waiting for the heavenly blue ranks.
A nice alliteration for zapnin outside the back door at raccoon headquarters. A cool 50 degrees upon awakening, and the first of the season morning glory blossom opened near the top of the “dead” tamarack tree, in spite of the chill. We've been patiently waiting for the heavenly blue ranks.
The Vollmer Memorial Tamarack is again supported this year in its work of being dead by an annually woven chorus of strong morning glory and gourd vines twining up, and up, year by year. The squirrels in their scampering, day by day, month by month since the tree “died” in ‘05 have loosened a few pieces of the iron-like bark. Pale green lichen grows over all of the trunk, limbs and smallest twigs. Too pretty to cut down such a tree, and we wouldn't, anyway.
Pieces of the lovely matter, as nature does it's change, are gathered in a bucket regularly. The SRN will provide a small piece of SR District BMV lichened tamarack bark to the first five people who request same, c/o >ddix1@wi.rr.com< ; or c/o Sewer Raccoon District, 517 Arcadian Ave, Waukesha, WI 53186.
It could be magical.
^.^
There was a Mexican pottery & etc. import shop called The Market Place in the 70’s through the ‘90’s (approx - maybe even the 60's) where we could go to find bargain-priced pieces brought back from their central American buying trips by the couple that owned and ran the store. It was situated in a former floral shop with greenhouse attached, at East North Ave near Prospect and the water tower.
The urn with the cosmos presently in it once stood for some years holding water for the flower gardens here at the raccoon tip-toeing district. The natural color characteristic of this style of crude hand-made pottery is such that there are random blurbs of gray, black and greens in the clay, and that has made it highly desirable here and elsewhere throughout the world. Another scampering squirrel recently knocked a piece of this pottery off the deck, breaking it. [see: http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/all-hidden.html]
There was a Mexican pottery & etc. import shop called The Market Place in the 70’s through the ‘90’s (approx - maybe even the 60's) where we could go to find bargain-priced pieces brought back from their central American buying trips by the couple that owned and ran the store. It was situated in a former floral shop with greenhouse attached, at East North Ave near Prospect and the water tower.
The urn with the cosmos presently in it once stood for some years holding water for the flower gardens here at the raccoon tip-toeing district. The natural color characteristic of this style of crude hand-made pottery is such that there are random blurbs of gray, black and greens in the clay, and that has made it highly desirable here and elsewhere throughout the world. Another scampering squirrel recently knocked a piece of this pottery off the deck, breaking it. [see: http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/all-hidden.html]
We’ve glued it back together, but in order to get a better repair we’re thinking of pounding a piece of clay pot terra cotta (standard) with a hammer, then grinding the shards into a clay powder in a big mortar-and-pestle we have (also purchased at The Market Place, as a matter of fact), and then mixing the clay dust with Elmer’s glue to get a paste that could be fingered into the glued cracks. The repair could be finished, we think, with a fine sandpaper. (Advice?)
A Buddha sits elsewhere in the raccoon-frequented yard, holding a gourd we’d painted gold and attached with epoxy as a finial at the top of the flagpole. Time and UV rays finally loosened the globe - it fell off - so there’s another repair job, of which there are many lined up around here.
A Buddha sits elsewhere in the raccoon-frequented yard, holding a gourd we’d painted gold and attached with epoxy as a finial at the top of the flagpole. Time and UV rays finally loosened the globe - it fell off - so there’s another repair job, of which there are many lined up around here.
Many background opportunities for fashion photographers at the SR district hdqtrs.
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This one is a beaut!
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