Write in the Trees

I haven't yet scanned in my first Write in the Trees, but today I took pictures with my camera phone and walked while writing. It was relaxing and the movement did seem to give a feeling of flow as I concentrated on my footsteps between writing and it distracted me from being distracted.

I am not sure what part of my brain chemistry makes it so, but everything is amazing to me.

I can't help but take in all of the details, organic complexities, geometric angles and multitudinous colours I see around me.

The sounds, behaviours, smells, movement, change, destruction, the hope.

Again I am drawn back to this place, to draw, to write, right in the trees.

Make Do and Mend

I love mending clothes, I find it very therapeutic. I have a lot of sewing experience so mending is very easy for me thus I can get lost in the artistic process of it. Today I mended my daughters blue leggings. They are just cheapies from Target but I'm trying to mend more and spend less. I did get carried away after I'd finished patching the holes and added my own horse tags as I now consider them Oak Brand not Target =D

For this one I undid the leg seam, machine stitched in a large patch from an old t-shirt and then re-stitched the seam.

An older patch. 

Bum patch in pocket style to make it less ucky.

Freya loves a pony.

Hand stitched.

Today's Discoveries or 

Dear Diary,

If today started at 3 a.m then I have discovered that:

1. I'm anxious about getting a job: possible sources of anxiety - rejection, failure, breakdown?
2. There's a cormorant at Frank Smith Reserve:
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. My dream occupation seems to be wandering around in tree filled landscapes fantasizing about what else I could be doing. To elaborate, I'd like to spend some time every day at this park drawing parts of trees (usually the trunk) and filling the living textures with ideas. I could post this every day and call it Words in the Trees. 
4. This foam on my flat white, which I made from Ethiopian Sidama fairtrade coffee tastes like honeycomb and carob, yum!