Summer keeps its hold with such cupidity—
It’s not the heat, you know, but the humidity.

Weather station reading temperature 71F, humidity 69%

Stopped in the pet store this afternoon for dog food, and after I paid and was leaving the clerk said, “Enjoy!” 🤷‍♂️

A touch of fall by Falls Lake.

Trees lakeside beginning to tinge red

Idly flipping through Emily Dickinson today: I want to do a carving titled “Even for Death, a fairy medicine.” No idea what it would look like, though.

Just a friendly reminder that it’s a good time to start researching your municipal elections.

absurdist collage with caption welp, there goes the neighborhood

As I can’t get basswood wider than 8 inches this carving, at 8x10, is likely the largest one I’ll do, excepting some sort of multi-panel thing.

chip carving of two facing birds and a great many interwoven whimsical flowers, with a red frame carved with triangles

I have to keep using Instagram for business purposes, not to mention it’s where all the woodworkers and artists are — but having to chose not to make an “AI character” every time I post something is making it even more painful than it already was.

This is why I will never be able to make a living from crime. I once got distracted for nearly half an hour reading months-old obituaries when I was supposed to be laying the newspapers down for sheet composting.

One supposes they grow beans?

Sign for Windy Bottoms Farm

Designs for this year’s Christmas ornaments. Clockwise from upper left: hope, love, joy, and peace.