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We've really enjoyed having Linda Hoffman's Tree Om with us this season. Not only has it been spectacular to look at...but also to look through!

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Fall has arrived at Highfield with the cool evening temperatures. We're celebrating with our Fall Open House and Autumnal Equinox Celebration. Lots going on!

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Hula Hoops at Highfield! I am very happy to report that even after a long summer of hot sun and scattered rain, the hula hoops weavings the kids made at our spring open house are still looking...technicolor!!

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The Technicolor Dream Trees are definitely one of the most popular sculptures in the show. Especially for the children who have never seen anything like this before. Here is the old Beech Tree finely adorned. We had a torrential rain storm yesterday and I have not yet headed up the hill to the mansion to see how everything fared. I bet it fared fairly well!

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This is the best shot I have seen of John Cira's Asylum Grove. It is hard to capture in photos the strings he has woven in the air from the 8 trees that surround the central totem tree capped in red. Elizabeth Forbes Armstrong took this incredible photograph which allows you to experience at least a little of the quality of light fractured by the strings. When you stand under the canopy, and look up, the world vibrates as if the strings are catching and connecting you to sounds and visuals that are other worldly. John considers this an expression of his interest in the 'random geometry' of nature. This work is truly site specific, and when John and I first inspected it, and he chose it, I wonder if he could already visual how all the strings would intersect.

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Wendy Bagley, master weaver for the Forbes family and accomplished felter created Woodland Wonder Way. Here is a family experiencing the art at our Open House. Wendy created a 'wonder way' using roadside saplings cutting left behind after highway roadside clearings. She embellished the area using hand dyed wool or 'moss.' The way leads up to a portal in the old Beech Tree. Inside there is a Kaleidoscope of color. Her weaving of the branches and use of the wool truly connects back to her love of the fiber arts.

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This yarn bombing thing is like grannie's knitting circle meets Christo

A friend of Deb Winograds

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And how about Ben’s Pan’s Portico. He worked on it for weeks, preparing the panels, getting the wheat grass just right, then building the structure on site. The day of the opening I gave him a call at 8 am as the he had the final touches to complete and I wanted it to be perfect, for him, at the opening. He was just then pulling into the driveway. We knew it would be an extraordinary finished piece, but who could have predicted that Beth Armstrong would take such an amazing picture. It captures the magic of the piece. It is sited off the main path of the Beech Tree Path, in a wooded clearing near two mid sized trees. I had saved the spot for Ben, hoping that it would work for him and he was happy enough with it. Mystery, mystery.

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The opening of Portals and Passageways was last Sunday and we've been crammed with things to do since then. So I'll be reporting on how it all went in the next blogs. However, I wanted to start this detail by showing you Sarah Peters final work! You saw her working it through over the past weeks, and the end result was just spectacular. She was very happy with the end result of all her thinking, site selection, sorting out of gravel, dying of silk - process, process! Congratulations Sarah on your Water Study in white pine and silk.

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Today I am thinking back to this moment in late April when we installed The Spirits of the Garden in the Sunken Garden. It took the four of us - and probably there should have been 6 of us and a bucket loader (!) to get the top piece on. There were a few moments there, like this one, when I wasn't sure which direction the top was going!

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It was a very successful install day. The Technicolor Dream Trees are up now. There are clusters as you drive up Highfield Drive and then they are sprinkled all around the woods near the house. We were really grateful to have Glen to help, because he was the only one who would climb up the ladders, this high any way.

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Andrea Martin zipped in from across a few state lines to install this 6 foot long cut paper illustration of Alice at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. In order to be able to ship the work and insure its safety on the walls of Highfield for the summer, Andrea and her partner-in-crime Marie-Helene Grabman used tyvek. What could be more of a portal than Alice's travels down the rabbit hole?

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And look now at what Ben's drawing has become. Incredible. Today he dropped off the wheat grass sides of Pan's Portico. Tomorrow the framework will come and he will assemble it off The Beech Tree Path near two old Beech Trees.

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It has started here at Highfield Hall! Technicolor Dream Trees!! #yarnbomb #highfieldhall #falmouthma #capecod #woods

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Here is Ben Silva's drawing for his work called Pan's Portico. When I asked him about it months ago wondering about the scale, he said - yes, it was going to be this big. We've been anticipating his piece and he emailed today to say it is coming on Thursday!

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It was a big day at Highfield Hall. Our first Technicolor Tree went up. Here's proof that Yarn Bombers have more fun.

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Matt Inman was really working hard today to complete his log portal. Later in the day, the sun shone down and one might think that God approved!

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