"Woodsy Mud Puddle" captures a quiet grounded moment in nature through the tactile language of fiber art. Created with free-motion sewing on fabric. The dark black soil is richly textured, evoking the dense, damp forest floor. Reddish pine needles and fallen branches scatter across the ground, each stitched with intention to convey the layered debris of a rainy woodland day. At the center lies a shallow mud puddle, painted in acrylic to bring a contrasting smoothness and depth of the textile surface. The water reflects the fleeting sky above--soft blues and drifting clouds--while delicate embroidered rain droplets ripple outward. The combination of thread and paint blurs boundaries between material and illusion, inviting the viewer to peer down and linger in the stillness of the woods after rain.