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Tah-Dah! February NaKniSweMoDo #2
Posted on | February 28, 2009 | No Comments
Blush-colored flowering quince, fresh out of the shower. I did it! Though it took nearly a week to dry on the blocking board, the Stripey Noro V-Neck sweater officially joined the ranks of my finished objects by the end of February. After watching those glorious colors snake through my fingers for the better part of [...]
The Bloom(berg) Report
Posted on | February 24, 2009 | No Comments
So the rain let up, just for today, and the sun came out. A reminder that in a couple of months, we will look back on the deluge of the last couple of weeks and wish we’d gotten still more rain. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the golden light while the sun shines, I hurried outside [...]
February Showers
Posted on | February 20, 2009 | No Comments
Plum-tastic. It has been raining non-stop here all week. Even last week. And with every passing storm, I’d find myself glancing up at the sky to see if there were any rainbows. It took me years to figure out that if the sun came out while it was still raining, all one had to do [...]
So Excited I Can Hardly Stand It
Posted on | February 18, 2009 | No Comments
At least two years ago (and possibly three) I planted some helleborus rootings that were supposed to have double flowers. And for at least two years (and possibly three) absolutely nothing happened. I forgot all about them, and concentrated on admiring the reliable performers among my single-flowering hellebores that bloom late every winter, like these: [...]
Oh-So-Stripey
Posted on | February 16, 2009 | No Comments
My latest NaKniSweMoDo project, the Stripey Noro V-neck, is moving swiftly along. Yes, I know that will be two sweaters completed in February and that makes me sound like an obnoxious over-achiever, but the Lotus cardigan was already a WIP when I picked it up again, with only the bottom half of the body left [...]
Mossy
Posted on | February 15, 2009 | No Comments
At this time of year, it’s easy to understand why landscapers refer to this kind of retaining wall as “moss rock.” I counted at least four, and possibly six different varieties of moss and lichen growing on these rocks that line our front walk, all of which have appeared as a result of the torrential [...]
Be Still, My Heart
Posted on | February 14, 2009 | No Comments
Happy Valentine’s Day to all. I wish you abundant love and all the chocolate you can eat.
Tenacious Little Bugger
Posted on | February 10, 2009 | No Comments
Hi – I’m a flowering quince. Please ignore my lethally sharp thorns while you admire my sculptural branchy beauty. I’ve already extolled the perennial cuteness of the Hardenburgia vine that climbs up our side fence every February. But have I also mentioned its pernicious persistent clamouring up every vertical surface that offers the possibility of [...]
Warm and Woolly Lotus
Posted on | February 9, 2009 | No Comments
Just a reminder that Spring is right around the corner despite all evidence to the contrary! God forbid I should ever have a hot flash while wearing the Lotus cardigan – it is so thick and hairy (but in an attractive halo’d way, not in an unshaven, unkempt way) – because I swear it might [...]
Pajama Day
Posted on | February 8, 2009 | No Comments
The pajama day is vastly under-rated for its medicinal value. I’ve had a nasty case of flu for the last few days, and spent most of Saturday curled miserably on the family room sofa, shivering under four layers of quilts while my fever soared, sticking my wobbly head out only when the wracking coughs got [...]