I had an audience this afternoon while I was sizing a batch of paper. Here's a view of the kitchen, where that work is done - hot size in the tray at left, and a flat board over the sink for brushing over the paper. Do you see the guests?

There were indeed two 'hon' barens in the lot:

Well it's time for Round Two! We've turned up another 'interesting' one. Here's the main photo from the auction listing:

A few years back, he took a chain saw to a very large cherry tree that I could see from my workshop window, but over at the other end of his property, he has another one:

Here they are ... The next impression was one of the easiest ones on the whole design - a cascade of embers coming off the fire basket:

First today was the wide, faint gradation on the water ... dissolving to nothing over at the left side of the paper:

First was another grey tone - this one deepens various places, and transforms the colour of the main character's shirt:

The main group of actors makes their entrance, although of course not in finished form yet:

Things are changing though this week - here's a shot of the little plum tree just outside our front door:

After the poetry series was over I of course continued issuing it, and just kept the same name, coming to think of the 'hundred people' as simply representing my collectors in general, and it has appeared without fail four times a year since then ...

But the New York Times isn't the only publishing company wrestling with how to move their publications into the digital age, as I too have to try and figure out what to do with my newsletter ...