From the OED:
REVERIE: 1) joy, delight, wildness, wantonness; 2) fantastic, fanciful; 3) a daydream.
Yes! That perfectly captures the essence of this happy piece, which I have entitled "Manzanita Reverie". Those bits of plant that you see wantonly arranged in the body of the weaving pictured here (more clearly if you enlarge the image) are manzanita catkins.
I collected them late last fall. They were all over the great rounded manzanita plants which practically cover our hillside, and they simply called out to me to include them in a weaving.
Of course, manzanitas are not the only native California plants we have here; hence I've woven in sages and everlastings and asters and grasses and poppy pods at the top of the piece, and then inserted a row of sweetly fragrant salvia clevelandia leaves along with that vibrant red stripe just below center line.
I have my friends Jill and Beryl to thank for the rough-spun natural flax yarn I used as a major component of the weft, and I have my friend Carolyn to thank for the coral bead embellishment on the fringe. Overall measurement: 24"x24".
May this reverie of mine bring you much joy!
