Color and Quiet

on fall days i am both energetic and wistful, giddy with bright color and also quietly tucking in a bit. Dotty Seiter, from her poem Blind Contour Drawing: Self-Portrait 

It's just a one line from a larger poem from her blogpost today....and I highly recommend reading the whole thing. So much of it resonated with me and I read it several times throughout the day. https://dottyseiter.com/2025/09/08/taking-a-good-look-at-things/

I especially loved the way she described her home: my house is a long-eared spaniel that rises unfailingly to greet me, tail wagging enthusiastically and chin lifted at a tilt for a scritch behind its right ear. 

That's how my home feels to me!

I bought this wire vine because I loved it AND I wanted to print with it...both cyanotypes and gelli printing. It was relatively small when I got it....but it has really taken off. 

I have it in this fabulous pot that my sister Becky gave me...boy do I miss her!

My first round of sun printing didn't go that well because the vines were true to their namesake and quite wiry and rigid. When you make sun prints the plant needs good contact with the paper so the sun can't get underneath. The vines needed to be pressed....so in a book they went. And I forgot all about them.

But I came across them a few days ago....and have started to play. I pressed several vines...but this one was the star. 

  

Here are two that that I've watercolored....I think they are

 both giddy with just a little color...and quietly tucked in a bit.