Raven and Sparrow

Summer fog

When the sun shines in winter our days are crisp and clear, but our warmest days in August are sometimes blunted by fog. Today started misty but just after noon the clouds began to lift. My sister and I took the opportunity to take our favorite hike over to Deception Pass. I have been walking in this park for over sixty years.

How lucky am I?

 

The trail goes from beach to cliff through meadow and woods. At the highest point over the bay I looked down and saw a family of river otters swimming together; a mom and four babies. We could see them above and under the water, slipping through either element like eels.

 

Painted foxglove

The paint is on Lisa's summer tablecloth at last. I started with the green leaves in the first week of July, and now all of the flower painting is done, pressed and set as well. I practiced quite a bit on the smaller square samplers, but still found myself winging it in some places on the full size cloth. Even with the addition of an acrylic medium it was hard to apply the paint smoothly to the untreated linen, and the medium definitely added stiffness to the hand, but it is done. Yay. Hanging it up and stepping back gives me the best vantage yet for evaluating the design and I see some minor things I would now change about the pattern, but overall it is okay.

The next step is waxing, then mordanting, painting with dye, and dipping in indigo. There is still a ways to go.