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Unfurling
Posted on | March 30, 2009 | No Comments
When I planted ranunculus in the back garden bed, it was the fulfillment of a long-held dream. Those frilly petals! The glorious colors! Those feathery leaves! It never occurred that they would die off rather quickly and thus put an end to my adoration. Until this spring, that is. Suddenly whorls of those feathered leaves [...]
The Volunteer Spirit is Alive and Well
Posted on | March 27, 2009 | No Comments
So the other morning I trotted outside to collect the daily newspapers when something nestled deep in the shadows near the back gate caught my eye. Something tiny, with just a hinted spark of color that stood out from the cool shade. Something I had not planted there, but that had taken the initiative to [...]
Down the Primrose Path
Posted on | March 26, 2009 | No Comments
No new knitting content today. Instead, I had a deep tissue massage to try and soften up some of the knitting-related knots in my neck, shoulders, and back. But this was no spa treatment, lemme tell you, despite the ambient background nature sounds of birds twittering and waves breaking on the shore. This was hard-core, [...]
Iris’t My Case
Posted on | March 22, 2009 | No Comments
No new knitting pron today, I’m afraid. I’ve had to take the last few days off as my hands badly need a rest… the trigger finger locking and cramping activity on my left hand has been so bad that I’ve scheduled a masochistic pre-emptive visit to the hand surgeon in hope of persuading him to [...]
After Midnight…
Posted on | March 18, 2009 | No Comments
This arum, splendid in its isolation as if quarantined by a magic circle into a corner of the front garden, continues to astonish me with a velvety beauty that borders on mysterious oddity. I’m ready for my close-up… mwah-ha-ha-hah! And you might suspect it had taken its color cues from this hellebore that I call [...]
Guinevere Says Hello
Posted on | March 15, 2009 | No Comments
Advancement on this WIP goes slowly but steadily, with few photos that are post-worthy. The back is complete, as is the right front side. I love this waist-shaping technique for its front and center, in-your-face quality… no demure K2togs and SSKs hugging the side seams. Oh, no, not this time. And I love the spot [...]
Thumbelina
Posted on | March 13, 2009 | No Comments
Lavender post-shower, not yet in flower. The centers of the tiny narcissus (narcissi?) below are literally the size of my thumbnail – absolutely adorable, and popping up all over the front garden where I scattered their teeny-weeny bulbs in a moment of daffodilly and narcissculous abandon a couple of years ago. Their reappearance every spring [...]
Poppylicious
Posted on | March 11, 2009 | No Comments
Poppy #1 in full bloom Despite predictions of more rain, we’ve got the sun all to ourselves at the moment. And the garden likes that. Very much, from all the evidence around the grounds.
Sparkly
Posted on | March 9, 2009 | No Comments
I promised a sneak peek at the vintage buttons that will finally find a home on the Guinevere Evening Cardigan, my March NaKniSweMoDo work in progress. And because I’ve always been terrible at keeping secrets (except when it comes to surprise parties; ask my husband about that sometime…), here they are: These three are metal-backed, [...]
Incipient
Posted on | March 7, 2009 | No Comments
While outside weeding on this 65-degree, sunny day (Oh, so that’s what sunshine feels like… it has been raining so long, I’d forgotten how lovely the sun feels upon the pallid skin in early spring), I noticed all kinds of new growth around the garden. Weeding efforts focused on the California poppies that, living up [...]