The Avant Garden

Rollins volunteered to help me model

 After weeks of bidding on E-Bay and sewing and agonizing over the remotest detail, my Trapper Point wool blanket capote is complete. It's wonderfully warm, and no one else has one quite like it. Now that it is done, I can't imagine getting it dirty, though, so will have to make another one for stacking.

Speaking of stacking, I like the simple shapes of these two stacks by Rob's driveway:

Rob trims a nice alcove for that back piece.

 Last weekend, my friend D-U-G came up to hang out and we went up to his property in Madison County:

D-U-G loves his view.The only way I could get far enough away to take a photo was to include the barbed wire.

 Previously I have referred to D-U-G as the most flat-earth person I know, and he still is. But he took a break from all that flat-earthedness to help me make this driftwood-n-light thing:

I don't know, either.

 I am pretty fond of it, but I don't know what to do with it. Do you, gentle reader, want it? It's ephemeral and dainty, but very cool. D-U-G had some great ideas when we did this thing and now I want to do another one just like it. Sorta.

Remember this driftwood-n-light thing:                                                                                                
 

 I put it on the ground and made a redtail snake to go with it:
No one else has one of those, either.

The idea was the two reds would draw your eye and leave your brain wondering what the connection between the red puddle on the ground and the snake's tail is, exactly.  I am still wondering what the connection between the two is, so it works. At least it works on my addled brain.

Asheville is such an interesting little corner of the universe that even the Avant Garden and I are readily accepted, and local writer Marty Weil has started up a blog to capture some of that uniquity in photos.

Check him out at: www.a-year-in-asheville.com.