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La Grande Feuille

Kelly Clark

I spent last week in the warmth of California's central valley, bare armed and open toed.  The golden rolling hills have a beauty all unto their own: scattered live oaks, grasses turned nearly white, wide blue skies and over all, the scent of dried earth.  I filled up on it, as this is the land I was born to, raised in, formed on.  It is, and alway will be, one of my homes.  

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When I returned North, the night fog stood to greet me.  The dawn broke cold and bright, breath hanging heavy in the air.  But after a week of all that California sun, the thing that cracked my heart wide open in the North was the color.  I could feast on that chroma for the rest of my days.  It catches me mid-sentence, mid-stride, mid-thought in a blaze of vermillion fire.  It wraps me up in the tide of seasons, the shifting dance of growth and release, the marker of yet another year drawing down in a flaming burst of glory.  If summer is the outstretched wings in flight, then autumn is the phoenix's fire.  Halleluia I say.

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La Grande Feuille - The Autumnal Rings

(sterling silver and carnelian) 

So naturally, when I sat down with paper and pencil, when I opened the drawers full of stones and silver, I needed to make an homage to the glory of Fall.  And so they are.

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(both rings are in the etsy shop now!)