Monday Photo Meditation: A Thriving Evergreen Land

Photo copyright Wings, 2026;
all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a Monday Photo Meditation for our small corner of the world in the latter half of winter. It's a study in contrasts, a contemplation of what was and what could be again, a thriving evergreen land that now needs our help to survive.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's a new calendar year, and we very much need to make this a better year than the last two have been. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail. It's nearly the end of February already and we're still about four weeks behind on what, it's become clear, is going to be a hard and costly year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.         

Just around the corner.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

New work in progress. Hummingbird season is just around the corner. Especially given that today's high was supposed to be in the forties, and we hit at least sixty-five. 

It's been a day. On the plus side, grocery shopping done, dishes done, trash out, laundry done. On the minus side, nothing else done. Which is why everything's late.  Again.

I really need to spend this week pushing sales. I'm already under unspeakable pressure this year, never mind the need to make up for the last two terrible ones. Our floor for breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're now four weeks in the hole on that score. So we still have to bring in sales, and weekly. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

A Late-Winter Forest of Shadow and Light

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the emergent greens and the forest shadows of this alpine world awaiting the official arrival of spring. It's a necklace strung with electric green rocks [literally], with flash at once metallic and ethereal, capturing the beauty of a late-winter forest of shadow and light.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's a new calendar year, and we very much need to make this a better year than the last two have been. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail. It's nearly the end of February already and we're still about four weeks behind on what, it's become clear, is going to be a hard and costly year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

If only.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

There's Fang. Talk about having not a care in the world. If only.

If you don't recognize it, that's because that's the space underneath the stairs, which was once our woodbox. Sunny discovered that he could use it as a doggy fort, and now it belongs to them, no takebacks allowed.

So that was him this morning, in his favorite place, on his plushy bed and with the fire blazing away in the woodstove behind where I was taking the shot.

Our mutts have it made.

This week's better news has taken some of the pressure off me in one significant way. Don't get me wrong; we still need to maintain the same pace with sales. That's not going to change, and it's still urgent. But one source of abject terror is gone.

Still, there's all the medical stuff, tool I'm already under unspeakable pressure this year, never mind the need to make up for the last two terrible ones. Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still more than two weeks in the hole on that score. So we still have to bring in sales, and weekly. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

All the Blues of a Winter's Night

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Now posted at The NDN Silver Blog, it's a work for the dark hours, and for the cold season too, for their haunting, ethereal beauty at day's end. It's a necklace strung with a woven gradient of color via materials rare and beautiful, manifest in the gift of all the blues of a winter's night.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's a new calendar year, and we very much need to make this a better year than the last two have been. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail. It's February already and we're still more than two weeks behind on what, it's become clear, is going to be a hard and costly year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.        

We've had it all today.

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

Clouds, snow, sun, wind: We've had it all today, included simultaneous sunshine, white-out snowfall, and ground blizzard. The snow was welcome; the cold was fine. The wind? Nah, we could all do without that. 

But nope. And it was brutal. It's going to very cold tonight as a result, too; this is the deep freeze that we used to get after three feet of snow. You can tolerate a lot more for three feet than for two inches that have now mostly been away already.

But at least it's the weekend. And yesterday's better news has taken some of the pressure off me in one significant way. Don't get me wrong; we still need to maintain the same pace with sales. That's not going to change, and it's still urgent. But one source of abject terror is gone.

Still, there's all the medical stuff, tool I'm already under unspeakable pressure this year, never mind the need to make up for the last two terrible ones. Our floor for sales and breaking even is making a minimum of one sale per week for the year, and we're still more than two weeks in the hole on that score. So we still have to bring in sales, and weekly. Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here [priorities are the LaminaSaver, because apparently Miika's out of it again; and the rugs, to replace those destroyed 2 years ago by the leachfield collapse and ensuing septic disaster];
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

And we do still need to make those regular weekly sales, so please share all of the links. We really do need to get this year onto a better footing than the last two, and so far, it's been impossibly grim.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.

Friday Feature: The Buffalo Blues of a Snow-Filled Sky

Photo copyright Aji, 2026; all rights reserved.

It's our Friday Feature at The NDN Silver Blog, with a masterwork by any measure wrought in an old traditional style, a collar necklace in the shades and shapes of a buffalo sky. This work consists of no fewer than five separate pendants, all strung from a strand of beads had-selected to match, powerful, phenomenal elements to match today's conditions, and the buffalo blues of a snow-filled sky.

The post is here. Wings's main page is here. Inquiries via the site's Contact form. It's a new calendar year, and we very much need to make this a better year than the last two have been. That begins with a minimum of one sale a week, without fail. It's February already and we're still more than two weeks behind on what, it's become clear, is going to be a hard and costly year.

All content, including photos and text, are copyright Wings and Aji, 2026; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may used or reproduced in any form without the express written permission of the owner.