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The Sound of My Own Voice
Posted on | October 27, 2008 | No Comments
I’ve been derelict at blogging lately, but not for lack of ideas. Just busy with other things. Such as: It’s always a thrill when the folks over at our local NPR affiliate agree to let me record a piece for their Perspective segment, as I did late last week. I love being in the sound [...]
Fleur
Posted on | October 16, 2008 | No Comments
Some words just sound better in French. Words like “fleur.” Of course, some sound pretty good in Italian, too. Like “flora.” I went to college with a woman named Flora, and I never wondered what her parents were thinking when they pulled that moniker out of the baby-names book. Whereas, if they had named her [...]
Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Pumpkin?
Posted on | October 11, 2008 | No Comments
Surprise! The squash below is now almost completely orange, and little by little the larger guy behind it is also turning from orange-speckled green to more decidedly orange. If I pull it forward where it will get more sun it, too, will complete the metamorphosis. By Halloween I will have two convincing pseudo-pumpkins by the [...]
Monkeyface
Posted on | October 9, 2008 | No Comments
Ahh, here they are again. My absolute, hands-down favorite fall flower, the pansy. I LOVE their little faces, freckled and individual as they are, no two quite alike. I even love it when they go to seed all over the garden and pop up to brighten unexpected corners throughout the winter. It makes me happy [...]
Edgy
Posted on | October 8, 2008 | No Comments
That’s what I’ve been for the last few days, having committed to the lace edging for the Wedding Shawl. Although the bead placed at the tip of each point slows me down just a tad, it’s going well and by the weekend the shawl should be finished and ready for its close-up. Meanwhile, a pointy [...]
Sasquatch Squashkins
Posted on | October 6, 2008 | No Comments
During a particularly hot week late this summer, I suffered a brief lapse in the frequency of my squash-picking activities. This negligence permitted a couple of renegades to get carried away, responding to their neglect with a power surge (“Oh, yes! She missed us again, hiding under these huge leaves! Now we can really grow… [...]
My Daughter the Hat Model
Posted on | October 4, 2008 | No Comments
Right around the corner is the birthday of a dear friend, for whom I have not knitted a single loving-hands item in years. And this is a friendship with such history that she deserves to have something handknit by me every year, so I have really fallen down on the job. With just enough time [...]
Not-Quite FO: Wedding Wrap
Posted on | October 3, 2008 | No Comments
Hot off the blocking board, I present herewith my almost-complete wedding wrap. Two different lace stitches, one – the more open and airy of the two – creating a graceful border: and the other filling in the body with a dense yet rhythmic design, offering just the right degree of warmth around the shoulders on [...]
Nah-Nah-Nah-Nah, Hey, He-e-ey, Good-bye…
Posted on | October 1, 2008 | No Comments
Good-bye to summer veggies, that is. We picked the motherlode, including the baby yellow squash seen above, this past weekend in anticipation of planting cool weather crops. A couple of the round green squash that somehow escaped my notice long enough to grow to bowling ball proportions (and with bright orange stripes that make them [...]