Hello Lovelies! There’s a new week ahead and it’s one we’ve never even seen before! Right now, even though the sun hasn’t yet brightened the sky, I can hear summer going on outside my window. A sprinkler is ticking it’s rotation in perfect timing, casting water about in circles. Crickets are playing their night tunes, and for a brief overlap of time, they will soon play a symphony with the first birdsongs of the morning. I hear the mama cat under our bed, quietly talking to her babies in that soothing throaty purr/meow way that she does. Sometimes I hear a kitten squeak a reply.
All this is about summer. And growing. And new.
Which, for me, lately, has involved gardening.
And making trellises.
Though I’d never built a trellis in my life, the beans and peas needed something to climb, and the tomatoes needed support, so I thought I’d better get to work – my only guidelines being that what I used to build them with had to be natural and free. Long branches cut from a golden willow by the creek became the poles for the pole bean trellises. Thinner off-shoots were perfect for tomato cages and, turns out, even thinner ones were just right for a pea trellis.
Aside from inspiration like this, this, this, and this, I had no idea what I was doing with all this stick work. Best time to dive on in. The work informed itself and the creative process opened up as ideas came. Pipe cleaners handily held all things together on the pea trellis while the pattern worked itself out. Jute twine will become the permanent binder once the whole trellis is assembled.
So, there I sat, with sticks and twine and shade, making and building. Curious boys came by, looked things over, scratched their heads and asked. Then they said it looked like I was making a cool fort.
Perfect.
