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Tag: trees
Into the green
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. – Roald Dahl
No yarn
The weather is too dark and dreary to be taking photos today, so you’ll have to wait a while for the first dye results I promised.
Instead I stumbled across an old photo, it was scanned from a negative many years ago when internet connections were much slower and hard drives a lot smaller, so I don’t have these images any larger.
I never could decide which version I liked the best, how about you? (maybe you don’t like them – that’s ok too)
I have so many negatives, so even if I can’t afford a new camera house when my current fails (hoping not to jinx it here, it’s definitely a senior), I do have image material enough to last me a lifetime of play in Photoshop. I just know I’d miss the thrill of the click…. 😉
Fall forage
Just a bit of gathering while walking the dog, to keep me occupied during winter in case I get urges.
In addition to the chestnut hulls I brought home, I also gathered spruce cones from the forest.
AND I found one young alder tree on our property that had produced cones, so I got myself a bag of those too.
I then tried to strip the larch trees, but they were not quite ready to let go of their needles, and those which did mostly ended up on my sweater. Tricky! I’ll get back to them in a week or so.
Then I went foraging websites and ended up ordering this canning device with a thermostat, I’m guessing it’s real good for keeping madder root at it’s proper temp as well! Since the jars will be shut I’m wondering if I could use it for apple sauce too. Not sure if I’ve had actual mordants or acid dye in there, what do y’all think?
Those acorns!!
I’m not seeing any acorn reports people!
Walk in the forest today, there are also no chestnuts this year and hardly any of the Alder catkins I wanted to dye with. I guess those have to be scheduled for 2013…