montage 52: week 1

Our plucky heroine rather does like this idea, found over on Chez Larsson (Benita is posting once a week, some photos from that week) to do for a year: a once a week montage of whatever images caught my jackdaw eye: would encourage me to be a bit more rigorous about carrying the camera around...

I did end up bringing it along on the recent trip south to spend the turn of the year with friends in Eugene... (thank you B for being willing to drive back to my house from the grocery store when I realised it had been forgotten) it was a treat indeed to get out of town, and spend time with friends not seen often. The sky on the trip down was quite spectacular, with shifting multiple layers of clouds like mokume, and particularly from the back seat, entirely unphotographable.  Shall be content then with an almost silhouette of J, knitting, and the windshield of the beetle adorned with OCF stickers

There is a small forest of really large timber bamboo next to the house; from the backyard you can see how very tall the bamboo is compared to their home

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there is a splendid staircase in the center of the house,
all decked out in vermillion and patterning

spoon rack, spice rack and sunlight in the yard;

sword rack, skylight, bamboo, and mirror~ everywhere you turn there are interesting things to see...

more skills combined than I can count; two of my most highly admired artisans in conversation...

portrait of an author reconfiguring string...

and last but not least, because it is the internet after all, an obligatory cat-and-baby photo: not sure how Hrothgar the Ancient feels about baby Sonam...