small beauties: running water & tree secrets
no smartassery this time, it was just a really, really nice day
Colorado
travellin: Sangre de Cristo Mountains
I don’t need a cluebat, I’ve got my mountains.
cats: Loiosh nomfs catnip
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness and blue bow tie, sits facing a long sprig of catnip. He’s got his head tilted, facing away from the camera, contemplating the flowers at the tip of the stem. ] Further along the same path Loiosh found even better foliage — catnip. He was EXTREMELY …
cats: Loiosh nomfs grass
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness, stands on a nice big rock, sniffing at a clump of grass. One ear is back, and the other is stuck out sideways. ] Salida, it turns out, has grass. Loiosh REALLY likes grass.
travellin: Salida
[ A view of the Arkansas river, here a shallow stream perhaps thirty feet wide. It’s bordered by large rocks on either side, then by trees in a variety of shades from summer green to bright aspen yellow. Peeking between the trees, far upstream, is the peak of a snow-capped mountain. ] I hadda run …
SPOON: a WALL
[ Three walls, complete with plywood, surround a similarly-plywooded floor; the fourth wall, the one facing the camera, has been framed out, with space left for two windows. ] Progress! Like actually getting somewhere! I’m getting faster at framing, this took about three hours all told.
small beauties: the delicate desert
[ A close view of long, narrow silver-green leaves, waving in the breeze, looking much like undersea fronds. The stems are paler and slightly more yellow. They greenery entirely fills the picture. ] First small beauties post from the new land! There’s SO much here that’s beautiful, I can’t wait to post more.
cats: the farmers market
[ Loiosh, an orange tabby wearing a green harness and a blue bow tie, sits atop a pile of pallets, silhouetted against the sky. He looks extremely skeptical. ] GUESS WHAT it is a CAT POST This happened MONTHS AGO but there’s been all this *gestures broadly at everything* but I’m back & functional again …
SPOON: on the land
[Flat land, sparsely covered in brown tumbleweeds, leads up to rugged, snowy mountain peaks.] ‘Through dangers untold, and hardships unnumbered …’ … okay, no, but we _did_ manage to get the van stuck within a hundred feet of our borders, & by ‘we’ I mean ‘I’, & it took us four days to get it …
