wonder

over the night, the finest ice crystals fell over the forest. thin blades of grass poked up out of the white cover, and the holly wore white mittens. here the cattails at the edge of a lake lay flattened and battered, a graceful cluster of hollow brown skeletons of a year gone.



a wind continued to blow through the woods where it lifted off the sheer powder from the hollies. the ice crystals were so fine and pure, they became illuminated by the shafts of sunlight, forming a swirling golden path between the trees. you could hear the ice crystals as they crashed violently into each other, a thousand far off bells.



across the forest floor, the green winter life swelled up out of the snow. here is a runner plant whose roots are so connected that you can pull up all by one. tiny and miniature trees leftover from a world of other plants of long ago, holding on as the giants of the newer world sleep.

olympus fashion week

Although fall colors proved scarce among the tendency towards black and white, bronze made a lovely showing in many of the collections. Along with a brilliant fireball orange. In the first peice, it was lovely to see stripes done in the bronze and the grey, along with the swirl paisley print of the trenchcoat. Following we had a gorgeous green floor length to remind us of the last hard greens of summer. Two wonderfully textured black numbers show a turn towards an inviting personality for the little black number. Followed by that fireball orange where the longer sleeves are truely innovative. A little dusty yellow slip dress allows a girl to play in the past for a night. If you are meeting the winter holidays in a tropic location, a lacey little blue number should get you in the right spirit. While those looking for a dark harvest pint in an Irish bar will swoon for the next green and black skirt matched with jacket. Rounding off the end are two lovely autumn dresses, one the dark orange of the sunset and the other the dark yellow of wheat, both utterly graceful.