The tree house

I had to show you this treehouse in the Santa Cruz mountains near where I live.

It belongs to Sue Cristallo, for whom I had the pleasure of doing a commission a few months back (the free hanging sun one). Each summer, she has a mini rodeo on her ranch, followed by a BBQ, and this was a couple weekends back now, but I'm only just getting round to posting about it.

It is the most incredible building, wrapped around trees and balanced on stilts, with rope bridges leading from the ground to it and other platforms floating high above the ground. It has a magical feel about it, and I am so glad that my peculiar adventures led me there to see it.

In the other picture is me, and swaddled in a green sling on my chest is Peanut! I am, of course, not allowed to post pictures on her directly, but I hardly think a green cotton lump on my chest constitutes one! And besides - it shows how incredibly small she was a couple weeks back, and tells me just how much she's grow already!

Thank you, by the way, to everyone who has posted comments recently. They are all enjoyed, and give me a boost to make the effort to blog, even when there don't seem as many hours in the day as there were before!

A new adventure

I have been very quiet for a couple of weeks - and with good reason!

The magic bag is old and familiar to me, but even so, contains compartments and depths which have still not been explored, so even now it is possible to be amazed and assounded at it's contents. This week it delivered to me a 3 day old baby girl, who we shall call 'Peanut', and Peanut came from the magic bag in search of a foster/adopt home. Whilst I knew the bag had the cabability to produce such life, it was un-doubtedly a shock to decide whether to take her within an hour, and pick her up within just a few hours.

Yet now, just a week later, it's almost as difficult to remember pre-Peanut time! And her presence and soul join, and fill our world as if they were always part of the puzzle - just perhaps a piece lost under the sofa - until now, when she suddenly completes the picture.

Because Peanut is currently a foster placement, I am unable to share too much information, and especially not pictures, but I just wanted to share her arrival - this 6lb bundle of possibility, who's life journey has joined with ours. For a short time or forever - still things unknown, but here now!