Twisp of Fate

So back to our regular programming….

I was weaving along from the end of July until early August, when there was a hiatus due to a trip to Seattle, getting ready for our huge Labor Day Weekend yard sale, and another trip to Seattle – and then the actual yard sale.

These rugs were all done at my standard 30″ width.

R182 & R183 – Fiesta fringe and olive green wooly worms – SOLD

R184 – fire color alternated with red wooly worms – SOLD

R185 – fire color alternated with dark red & navy wooly worms

R186 – a long rug, gray fringe alternated with colorful wooly worms

R187 – brown & teal fringe alternated with complementary wooly worms

R188 & R189 – bands of charcoal fringe alternated with bands of wooly worms in a color progression

R190 – bands of black & color fringe alternated with bands of wooly worms in a color progression

In some ways, life is getting back to normal.  Most of the upper valley is untouched, of course, and it is getting to be the kind of beautiful fall that we so love here.  But to quote our friend whose ravine washed out in the flood: “The weather here is beautiful now, and if you weren’t looking at burned landscape and dried mud, many feet deep and deeply scoured ravines, it looks beautifully pastoral.”  We met more people this weekend at the yard sale, who had lost everything and are still dealing with insurance companies, and where they are going to live for the winter, etc.  I just can’t imagine what that must be like, or how we would deal with the kind of clean-up our friends up Benson Creek are facing.

By the way, here is an aerial video of the  most severely flooded areas from Thursday 7/21’s heavy rains and the breaching of the 3 dams in the Wenner Lakes. It is 17 minutes long and takes you over much of the middle valley that burned and flooded, and tells you where you are throughout the flight.  http://vimeo.com/104463724