Yesterday’s rain brought us the expected fiery sunset, copper and amber fading upward into shimmering peach, as though reaching for the wide crescent moon that would set in the same shade. This day dawned in paler tints of the same colors: rose, amber, peach, silver, trailing clouds behind the peaks backlit by the rising sun.
Now, sun climbing steadily in a hot turquoise sky, our whole small world here shimmers and dances in the light.
Part of it is that the small amounts of moisture, across the land and from the skies, have revived a thirsty land. all of the green has perked up this morning: The grass stands taller, the trees and shrubs straighter, the leaves reach skyward in anticipation of more to come. The wings of the small butterflies glow, the iridescent feathers of magpie and blackbird and hummingbird glitter, and we may be fortunate enough to see the return of the dragonflies today skimming above the water, tiny rainbows adance in the morning light.
It’s an image captured in today’s featured work, a pair of earrings that glimmer and glow as surely as their real-life namesakes. From their description in the Earrings Gallery here on the site:
A Dance For the Dawn Earrings
The warmer winds bring Dragonfly, here to perform a dance for the dawn, wings ashimmer in the light. Wings captures the soft glow of a summer sunrise with these earrings embodying the small summer spirit of flight. Each dragonfly is formed of a length of slender but solid sterling silver triangle wire, meticulously hand-stamped down the length of its curving spine to create a body as reflective as that of its living counterpart, and as agile and motion-filled, too. The wings are cut freehand and milled in a lined pattern that evokes both summer rains and rays of light. At the top, each small spirit’s head is formed of a cabochon of beautifully gentle peach moonstone, their color as fragile as the first rays of dawn light. Each earring dances from sterling silver wires via a single silver jump ring. Earrings hang 2.5″ long (excluding wires) by 1.75″ across at the widest point; cabochons are 3/16″ across (dimensions approximate).
Sterling silver; peach moonstone
$425 + shipping, handling, and insurance
The water from upriver is flowing for the last day now, low and slow but still steady. The pond will not be filled by it, but there will be enough to create a small pool — enough for life to catch hold, to flourish and grow.
Meanwhile, the sun has not yet reached its apex in the sky and already the thunderheads are piling themselves high to the east, large mounds of luminous white rising atop bases the color of violets. The rain is gathering itself to fall this afternoon.
We have already seen the rainbow-hued wings of the swallowtail this morning; she fluttered past, circled around, then danced directly over my head on her way to her next petaled port of call. We may have rainbows of a more literal sort before day’s end.
And with the water we may yet see the arrival of the dragonflies, too, sailing between the marsh grasses, skimming the pool’s shimmering surface — messengers spirits, yes, but also living tiny rainbows, adance in the morning light.
~ Aji
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