Winter Wood

 

I spent a large portion of my time this week either on the phone with UPS or worrying about the parcel which they lost. Earlier this winter I constructed theĀ Mace of Molag Bal for the web video series Arcade Arms, I shipped it out on Jan 7th for them to do the final filming in Hollywood. It was supposed to take three days to get there, It still hasnā€™t arrived. After days on the phone I found some helpful people in the UPS bureaucracy who found the parcel for me and managed to get it flying to its destination. Itā€™s not there yet, but it should be by the beginning of next week. I actually slept last night.

This morning I went to the woods. It was a still morning, and the low sun cast long shadows through the trees.

 

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Tiny animal prints made paths across the trail.

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The cedar fence post was silver from the sun and cold, the grain of the wood etched by weather.

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I found an old iron pail, rusted to almost nothing, filled with a squirrel’s winter hoard of spruce cones.

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The sun found a hole in the canopy and lit a gnarled spruce trunk.

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Branches tangled across the path. I ducked under them, weaving deeper into the trees and let my worries fall away for this brief spell.

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Jake Powning

Jake is a professional swordsmith, artist, and writer who explores the strange place where traditional culture and the land meet.

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