native in november...

teddy's latest project. :)

our very japanese meal...cooked by my father-in-law. tyler was in childhood nostalgic heaven.

who does this baby think he is?? watching him learn how to crawl, a little yogi of wriggly mobility, is so bittersweet. he wants it.

and LINCOLN'S WONDROUS GROWING!
...  :(

i love to go out into roseville's untouched places: there is very little remaining.


how wonderful it is to be with the grey willows
and blackberries
and mugwort
and mullein---


we watch for muskrats,
and salmon,
and it isn't so hard to see how the maidu

lived fatly (yet leanly)
off of the meat of deer,
the stalks of cattails,
the meal of acorns.

the land is flat and
bristling with wild grape
winding creeks
full of sleek salmon,

birdsong.

i think
fall is this grassy land's best
coat

she wears.

cottonwoods,
and green grass
growing
so eagerly
after even
the meagerest rains.

just finding places to be wild.

and alive.

in november the roses bloom again, along with aphids and ladybirds.

flushing jack rabbits in the open lot across our neighborhood. 

handsomes.

landing.

grandpa kurt is here to visit!!

look what goo-goo can do. so big. he just learned to pull himself up. it happened too fast! ty found this little walker on the side of the road, and scrubbed it up. he's pretty resourceful. 

his inspiration to practice crawling: rosy, the cockatiel. 

mesmerized by details. a moment's meditation. 

sculpture park. week-old green grass.

a roseville forest

dry creek

mullein, wild grape

russula?

salmon.

my boys don't usually wear camo, but when they do it's usually clean hand-me-downs.

milk face.

been searching for elderberries. a little past their prime, but now i know where to find them for next year. when i lived in the woods i knew where things would be growing, and when to find them: the patch of gem-studded puffballs, miner's lettuce, etc etc. AND NOW I KNOW WHERE TO GATHER ELDERBERRIES! TRIUMPH.

teddy's foraged dill and boat.

"cosmos."

my handsome lover.

a goofy pic, but those two teeth popped out on monday! makes nursing a bit treacherous. 

climbing up on daddy! new trick! the last 10 days have been a major explosion of development and growth. i'm flabbergasted...

the goods.

teddy's treasures.

sleeping papoose. :)

who wouldn't want this sleeping bundle on their floor?

halloween peek.

he's never seen ghostbuster's, but he knows it's cool, whatever it is.

tyler made me some bling. haha.

teddy's tiny barrel of monkeys!

satchel in the grass, taking a sit.

lake natomas.

squeezy goo goo at my folks' house.

vestiges of children's imagination by the big manazita.

i came outside to this! quite the predicament! teddy loves to lug linky around.