In Reach of my Chair

In Reach of my Chair

My days can be hectic with lots of comings and goings (or is it vice versa?)

But my home provides the rest and relaxation that I need to recharge. I often trundle around the yard to investigate the happenings in nature, and to see what plants are now guests at "our place". For most of my life I had "a home among the gum trees". Now in Sandy, Utah I find my surroundings to have a perpetual freshness.

I appreciate the mature trees with their new foliage, I delight in the small plants and their struggle to make themselves known, and I can invite the snails and slugs to live elsewhere.

Springs brings much activity; so much and so varied. With the soil being super-saturated, I keep my chair to hard standing and pathways. Abundance is within my reach. Today I sampled new leaves to inspect their intricacies.

I have long used my scanner as a camera (take image and store as a file). In this case I have kept a white background, but the use of different cloth covers allows me to change background colors for this miniature work.This technique can make masterpieces of the small, small world.

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