Yellow and Blue

Good thing I turned the pot around so when the tower crashed yesterday it landed in the neighboring treetops on the other side of the wall. The strange thing is that it changed direction and kept reachingUP to the sky! Thankfully the pot didn't topple and turn into pot shards. Isn't enough enough yet? Apparently not because
It now has it's first lovely yellow blossoms! Hard to see the whole little band of flowers because that's the exact point it got itself tangled in the bougainvilla.

I managed to invent a new technique in the studio yesterday. As I have complaiined about for a long time I only have a dye inkjet because I was a hasty purchaser and didn't read the fine print, or more probably I read too much fine print and my brain became addled. Anyway I needed SKY yesterday so printed out a few different pieces 13" x 19" on a white on white printed floral. It was one-of-those-days when things were going wrong- lots of banding, lots of head cleaning, lots of wasted fabric. Finally, to hurry up the ink drying so I could mess with one piece, I gave it a shot of hot iron. It didn't eliminate a fold that apparently has made itself permanent in this old fabric so I gave it a shot o' spray water like it was pigment ink and I am used to on my 'real' printer. I watched a watercolor develop as the sky disappeared. I grabbed another piece of fabric to mop up the mess and it printed onto that beautifully. Another hit of iron and I think I got it, Ollie! Of course I still can't use any water which basically renders it unusable for my purposes when I need that shot of steam once in awhile, but I DO have a pretty pile of formerly-sky prints now.

And today I have an iron to clean and blue fingers that a sink of dishes and a shower and shampoo haven't removed. Amazing how the same stuff is so fugitive on cloth...