Saturday August 30, 2025

Goodnight friends! Skier heavier and more dour, thrumming patches of brightness still popped up from time to time, but far more fleeting between wide, low expanses of furrowed grey. Largely dry, if humid, til mid afternoon, but most of the day after that dissolved droplet by droplet into one finely woven translucent curtain of drizzle. Spreading flickers of firey colour in the branches temporarily smothered down to shades of murky monochrome.

Leaden and bruised-feeling, continuing damp, fluctuating weather and delayed aftershocks of fatigue from the medical assessment still, I’m assuming. A little gloomy and drained, dislocated from my body. At least able to draw and keep myself occupied a little and give myself space and time to rest.

May we find honesty and self-acceptance today!

Image ID: Photo of the blazing orange-red canopy of a serviceberry tree with the taller gold-speckled green plumes of a row of linden trees beyond, against a pale grey sky.

Photo of a small collection of artichoke oak galls, acorns bizarrely transformed into pale brown bud-like forms with layer on layer of overlapping papery scales, along with a gnarly knopper gall and a pale green unaltered acorn.