Weeds

"Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary." Brene Brown

Some weeds are a nuisance and can be invasive....others can be beautiful and interesting in the right context.

This is my new favorite pressed weed for cyanotype printing. I love how airy it is and how it radiates out from the middle. I learned that it's called purge...and it is invasive.

It what was printed on the back of this teabag...

just enough white to compliment the prints coming through from the front. 

I only had this one piece....so I went on weed hunt this afternoon...and found something similar nestled in the pool landscaping rock...I'm pressing it in my atlas. 

I think this might be prostrate knotweed....doesn't that just sound like a weed? It has the same airy stems and tiny leaves....we'll see how it dries.....and whether it prints beautifully in the right context.