As we move through October, the days grow short and each day the arc of the sun that passes across my window is shallower. And soon daylight savings time will end and I will go into a major funk with the winter darkness. That's why my most recent project in pottery class was a terra cotta bas-relief of a raven with the sun in his beak. This image is, of course, based on the Haida story about how Raven stole the sun from the Sky Chief's lodge and tossed it up into the air where it remains today. I figured I need all the sunlight I can get in the wintertime, even here in Oakland, California.
The raven hangs out on a garden wall, right next to my sweet-smelling Mandevilla laxa, which is about go to into dormancy. So he will be the wall's primary focus until springtime, and the vine sprints 25 feet up the wall again.
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