"rabbit underground,
rabbit safe and sound"
-richard adams, watership down
there is a fat little bunny who lives just off the porch in this cozy little nest of dried grasses and snow caps. plump and round and as fluffy as a bunny can be. he spends most of his days hopping about the yard, eating what grasses and leaves he can find (there is a veritable smorgasbord here). i spend much of my idle time watching him...eyeing me curiously as he munches away. it seems funny that he has the little green gate at his doorway. seemingly blocking any untoward visitors. apparently he does not consider me untoward as he seems genuinely unafraid of my comings and goings. half-remembered images from some long ago watched monty python film linger in the dark recesses of my memory whenever i approach his doorway. perhaps i shall simply heed the whispered cinematic advice and "run away"!
meanwhile, a growing of pile of cloth fragments and threads are calling... i feel some needle chanting is forthcoming. a welcome and long awaited return to creativity.
namaste'
needle chanting is perfect in winter
ReplyDeleteA happy New Year to you Joe, with lots of cloth, threads and stitches ...
ReplyDeleteThere will soon will be growing some new cloth from your hands ;-)
(perhaps with a rabbit in it ? ... a small one that is .... I hope !)
most assuredly! rabbits and deer have been on my mind lately...
ReplyDeleteNeedle chanting...what a perfect description. I may have to pass that phrase on.
ReplyDeleteit is a lovely description, is it not? but i can't take credit for it. i have borrowed it from the amazing jude hill. jude has graced us all with many wondrous descriptive terms, for which i and eternally grateful.
DeleteHappy New Year Joe, look forward to seeing the results of your needle chanting.
ReplyDeletePerhaps the little bunny is so used to your presence that he's comfortable seeing you there. A fairly famous English gardener and writer, Christopher Lloyd, said in one of his books that wildlife will be so comfortable with a regular gardener that they will view them as "no different from a sheep or a cow". I thought it a lovely comment and image :-)
Baaaaaa! ;)
DeleteJude's expressive words and stories pull many of us to the fabric and thread with extra vigor when we are "holed" up for winter days and nights...rather like your little rabbit's little place to dwell between times of feeding. Will that rabbit hop onto the cloth in stitch? I do believe he will. Kristin
ReplyDeletehe will be in good company. i seem to find not a few bunnies populating my cloths. perhaps he'll find his way onto the skyflower cloth. it is filled with snow...
Deletewhat is the green in the bunny rabbit's doorway? is it a piece of your cloth? does it help keep the wind out?
ReplyDeletehmmmm....perhaps i should offer him some? it is actually a bit of plastic fencing. he chewed thru it and it works rather like a little gate now as he comes and goes.
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