We arrived.
I set my roots down gently and looked around, feeling dazed, happy and tired. Home always seems like a process of establishing a little tension between root and crown, between my toes and the top of my head after the slack and softening nature of packing and travel. It makes sense that I head out to a high place as soon as I can whenever we return home, so I can sink myself down deep while I reach for the sky; twine my toes around sand and stone while my arms rake the stars and moon into a cosmic heap. Eventually I find the lovely, wobbly rigidity, like what the trees have, that allows me to stand tall against the weight of the wind here. I’m a wisp. It can be so easy to get carried off if I don’t have myself tethered well.
This is all to say, it’s good to be home.
it’s good for you and for us!
the richness of these photos, these colors!!!!, has me embracing the fall season more than ever. you have a way of lifting up sagging spirits through your photography and writing that is such a gift. i always leave your page inspired to look at things anew and get myself in motion.
it’s nice to see you tromping on your home turf and i look forward to all of the visual delights that will inevitably come from the return of your lovely, wobbly rigidity!
xoxo
I know.
The colors of fall…I’ve been slurping them up!
Thanks for feeling lifted by this space, and as always, for being kind whenever I make myself vulnerable.
XX
Such beautiful colours!
And the first frosts are so special.
We are having unaccountably balmy weather in Wales.
And those two old fellas are adorable 🙂
xx
I agree! The first frosts…such wonders…and the way the forests react is unreal. X
Welcome home. So lovely to see you!
Good to see you too, babe!
X
You take the best pictures ever. Ever!
And there you are, high on your mountain, back home and being one with it all.
Like you never left.
Idaho and her wind welcomes you. It missed their little wisp.
x
Well bless you!
I try my hardest to capture the best of the best of the tiny and the huge and wondrous for you all:) Well. I guess I don’t actually think much about it while I’m using my camera, it’s become a second fluent language for me now. I just let it flow.
So thank you. Thank you for saying that and for thinking that.
Yes.
Back at home.
On my mountain.
On my roost.
Feels so good.
And you KNOW what I mean when I talk about the reckless and murderous majesty of the wind here…it’s the same wind that rules Wyoming. Batten down the hatches, baby.
XX
so beautiful where you live! or perhaps you are always so good at reflecting beauty?…looks like Idaho is saying “bienvenue” to you!
Like you should talk. I think your part of the country has a monopoly on deciduous forests! I bet it’s so beautiful in the East right now.
Miss you, girl.
I know I owe you a whopper of an email.
I’ll get to it, with a full heart, soon enough.
X
What gorgeous colors. The shock of trees in orange and reds amongst the sage green hills! WOW. Beautiful. I’m so glad you’re home and getting settled. Fall is settling in here, but this week the warmer afternoons almost make you forget. I’m grateful. I’m not ready to be cold to the bone quite yet. I cannot wait to see what the colder months yield from your studio! Welcome home, toots.
Warm afternoons here too. Incredibly warm. They take the bitterness out of the nights. I, too, am grateful.
Love ya, babe.
X
that orange, creeping up the hillside.
those red leaves.
the boys in the bokeh.
….sigh….
welcome home, wispy elfkin….welcome home.
I know! The creep of color!
I wish you could be here in person to see the scrub maples!
SO MAJESTIC AND STUMPY AND BLAZING RED!!!
Incredible.
Love you, hobbit.
X
love love love these colours!!
Welcome home…good for you!
Thanks, darlin’! X
love these colors..
welcome home beautiful,
xxo
Thank you, beautiful V. X
Hug!
Kiss!
Wonderful pictures!
Welcome home! 🙂
Hello friend!
Thank you!
X
Beautiful images of home, It’s wonderful to have you back
Oh, bless you.
Good to have a new post up for you all.
THank you for being here, Lyns. X
I found myself having to look up what “5 x 7 =” to comment on this post! ha..thank you for lifting my spirits today. And happy homecoming 🙂
Ha ha!!!
I know what you mean. My niece was learning her times tables while we visited her in Chicago in the springtime and we had math races around the dinner table. So fun! Good to brush off the rust!
I’m delighted to hear your spirits were lifted.
That’s my real work, you know.
To reach out and lift, as best as I can, as often as I can.
X
Beautiful pix!!! Here in Seattle, it is one long slow descent into yellow then brown leaf-less-ness. However, I live near a street populated by ash trees, variety: Blaze. They turn the most amazing color of aubergine. One house has a vine maple that goes thru the red-orange-yellow spectrum as a back drop to the aubergine. Yummy. Just finished The Daily Coyote. Good book!!
Chris,
Sounds like heaven! I quite like that deep purple hue. I can only imagine what your ash tree street looks like right now.
And that Shreve…she’s quite the gal!
Rob and I are reading “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” right now [ http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian/dp/0316013692%5D, a few chapters every night out loud before we go to sleep. We laugh, we groan, we feel sad, we feel happy, we feel a little mortified and charmed. It’s considered a young adult book but it’s QUITE the story. 🙂
We’re also listening to *Atlas Shrugged* book-on-tape right now. Boy howdy. We love it so much. Obviously, it appeals to our insane libertarian streaks, but it’s also just such a wonderful story, all politics aside!!! Love Ayn Rand. What a story weaver.
X
LOVE Sherman Alexie. He’s very cute. I have seen him read @ Elliot Bay Books a number of times. Very compelling personality. And a wonderful contemporary voice for native peoples.
I am so glad you are into audio books!! They are the best, you can do chores and do fun stuff and read t the same time. I recommend Shadow Divers, incredible book!!!
Ayn Rand is just timeless, she seems to have seasons or cycles where everyone reads her at once and are amazed that she isn’t contemporary.
I would love to see him read!
Rob and I are having SUCH a good time reading *Part Time Indian* aloud.
I am trying to do more audio books. I’d like to make my way through a few this winter while I work in the studio. I’ll look into Shadow Divers! Thanks!
Ayn Rand. She’s a heroine of mine.
So happy to discover a new post from you!
Have you seen Smoke Signals? Sherman Alexie wrote the screenplay. So funny! I think that it was Adam Beach’s first movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBEhz8vw2AM
“THERE WAS GOING TO BE A FRY BREAD RIOT!!!”
We sure have seen Smoke Signals. It’s one of our all time favorites. We quote it at great length fairly frequently!
Farley looks like the wisest of the wise. He looks like he is about to speak pearls of wisdom. What an awesome picture of him!!
Beautiful fall colors. My favorite time of year. Glad you arrived safely.
Such wisdom in that phrase about having yourself tethered well!
He IS the wisest of the wise.
Every morning, the first thing I do is reach out, pet his sweet brown head and ask him a magic 8 ball kind of question. Then I take on the day.
Ahhh…tethering…it’s a big deal for me. I can’t work until I feel settled in every aspect. 🙂
Always love having you here.
X
Welcome home! Love your pictures of that glorious fall weather you guys are having. You capture such wondrous beauty. I was never lucky enough to snap shots of the first frost & autumn’s color up in the high country-it is like winter’s whisper of what is yet to come. Do you ever wander out to the Buckskin area and follow the backroads into Inkom? Pretty fall color there too.
I sure do.
Some of our dearest friends own (and live on) a working cattle ranch in Inkom — up on the mountainside by Pebble Creek Ski Area — they get the best of everything. In point of fact, they hosted brunch at the homestead for a dozen of our friends two Sundays ago, when autumn colors were at their peak! I love Inkom. And the Gilberts/Vernons. Good batch of folks.
x
Love the frost, and the dogs, and home 🙂
We just had our first overnight frost in South Carolina. I’m sad for my little herb garden out front, about to be slowly leached of all its life, but I love frost, and chill air, and all these things that just don’t last here. I’ll take every moment while we have it. It’s good to live up here closer to the mountains. I can drive an hour and lose ten degrees. It’s wonderful.
Good to hear from you again!
Oh yes.
It’s always sad to lose the garden.
But those frosts are just SO dang gorgeous. Like a blanket of diamonds spread evenly over hill and dale.
X
As a yoga teacher I love the ‘tension between root and crown’. That will find its way into one of my classes soon. Nice nice & welcome back home. x0
Ah ha! Tree pose. Please do use it in class! X
a gorgeous embrace of your home in all its autumn-cusp-of-winter loveliness. also, those dog collars are fantastic – care to share where you got ’em?
Thanks, little beauty! I DO care to share where I got those dog collars but you’re going to have to wait a few weeks until I can let you be in the know. 🙂 Hang tight!
Welcome home. I bet Idaho missed your blonde locks! (Gosh, in that second photo…I thought you had your own little wildfire blazing!)
Hard to believe Mr. Frosty Pants has already visited your neck of the woods. He’s yet to swing by this way, so no leaves to crunch through yet.
Glad you’re back to your winter home safe and sound.
xxx
I hope Idaho did.
I missed Idaho’s EVERYTHING.
I cannot believe you haven’t had a hard frost in Spokane yet! Crazy!
X
these colours take my breath away…now I’m also happily anticipating the first frosts after seeing these.
Autumn colors are to LIVE for!
I have frost envy! It is ridiculously warm here for October, no crisp, chill mornings to feed the soul. I must settle for a vicarious first frost and thank you for these glorious images.
It’s coming your way, very soon! Hang tight!
Ahhhh … sheer beauty, all of it! Glad your home safe. XX
Thanks, Lynn! XX
Yippee ki yay, you’re all back at the homestead!
Such vibrant and awakening photos…I can almost feel that first bite of frost!
Sending much love to you and yours, dearest plume!
YEAH!
Love that opener of yours!
Thanks for all the love, beauty. X
We do love our homes….and it’s good to see you settling into your home in the hills so well.
Beautiful photos….the frost gave me a little shiver!
Really?!!
A little shiver?
OH! I did a good job!
XXXX
Wonderful photos. You so capture the feel of the country and the moutains where you live! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you, Elizabeth!
Welcome to your home…the first scene took my breath away, reminded me of living in the mountains in CO… so happy to see you xx
Do you miss CO?
I miss everywhere I’ve ever been and I yearn for the places I don’t know yet.
X
and there you are!
love and light
Hey Cat!!!
XX
THE COLOR!! I love the misty hued and rainy/frosty-ness of these images, peppered with shades of orange…it really is that magical time of year 🙂 I always miss fall the most since moving out here, my eyes and heart thank you for sharing these beautiful pictures, welcome home lady bird…soak it all up and enjoy!
Howdy, Island girl!
Yep.
Super magical time of year.
XX
Saskatoon has a proper fall now. For weeks the leaves have been changing colors. My favorite are the ones that turn a vibrant red. I annoy the children by asking them daily “Have I told you how much I love the red trees? I do!”
We had our first light snow this morning and then it all melted away. Winter is coming but not too soon.
Missed you. Welcome back to the interwebs.
Hi Friend!!!
I love Saskatoon in the fall time. Well. I love it ALL the time, but fall is so glorious, along the river…out in the wheat fields…the sloughs should be filling up with millions of geese and ducks. Magical times.
Missed you back.
X
Such handsome boys, and look at that “fire on the mountain”! Oh, and the sunlight, streaming….
Bliss!
xo
🙂
They are handsome fellas.
Thanks for being here, B!
X
Love the color of the light where you live!!!!!! Also the colors of fall ;)! Of course! What a wonderful life and passion you have! Sending the most wonderful vibes to you.
The light is beautiful right now. I love the changeover into the blue light of winter. Everything is laced with a dash of romance…
Thanks for being here!