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Vacations Are For Fun…
Posted on | July 11, 2010 | No Comments
…but there’s no place like home. My knitting is off-camera for the moment, so nothing new to share there. While I’m away from the blog, thought I’d treat you to a few photos snapped in the garden just before I left. Peaches still hard as rocks, but should be ripening by the time we return. [...]
Color Me Pink and Green
Posted on | June 26, 2010 | No Comments
I make a lot of bouquets out of whatever is blooming in my garden, and love having fresh flowers in the house as well as outside my windows. During the spring and summer months there are lots of possibilities, sometimes a seemingly infinite variety of options to combine. Friends of mine, aware of my flower obsession, have enabled [...]
Getting Old Is Not For Sissies
Posted on | June 12, 2010 | No Comments
I can say that because a) I just had another birthday and it made me wonder if it would be kosher to start subtracting rather than adding a year from this point forward, and b) tonight I’m on my way back to New York to spend another week helping out with my parents. New round-the-clock [...]
Up In The Air
Posted on | June 8, 2010 | 1 Comment
I’m no Ryan Bingham, and certainly no (spoiler alert!) cheatin’ Alex, but lately I’ve been up in the air way too often for my liking. Air travel takes on a whole new perspective when you’re doing it because you HAVE to instead of because you WANT to. While I’d do anything for my family, this [...]
Iris’t My Case
Posted on | April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments
Two titles in a row that feature bad puns… oy. Just couldn’t resist. Today’s garden extravaganza is the iris population that has overtaken the garden. While the roses are mustering their strength for the long haul of late spring/summer blooms, the irises stand proudly in full regalia right now. Some of them smell like grape [...]
The Wall Of The Roses
Posted on | April 28, 2010 | No Comments
Never one to resist the lure of a good pun (or are puns, by their very nature, bad?) I was stopped dead in my tracks on the way out to fetch the paper this morning by this: A wall of roses just waiting for the morning sun to hit them so they could release their [...]
Just Call Me Georgia
Posted on | April 1, 2010 | No Comments
And by that I mean this: And this: Not that I would ever compare my photos to the paintings of Georgia O’Keefe, but I do seem to be drawn irresistibly to take extreme close-ups of the flowers ripening in the garden. I love to study the abstract quality they assume, the new textures and colors they reveal, when [...]
Hello From No-Knitting Hell
Posted on | March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
With my right hand bandaged to resemble a catcher’s mitt, you’d think my entire hand had been spectacularly mangled in our blender rather than what are probably a total of ten stitches and a little bruising here and there on the two fingers that were fixed. Given this state of affairs, I obviously cannot knit. Nope, cannot knit [...]
Texture Is Everything
Posted on | February 20, 2010 | No Comments
And I am especially reminded of this in the spring, when carpets of green hills roll out all around me, dotted with the brilliant yellows of mustard and daffodils in bloom. Closer to home, my garden is a veritable encyclopedia of knitting inspiration; between the color combinations assembled by Mother Nature and the textures of [...]
I’m Knitting As Fast As I Can
Posted on | February 18, 2010 | No Comments
And I am doing so because in less than two weeks I’m having another – and I hope the last – hand surgery. How crazy is it to keep knitting when I’ve already had four of these surgeries? No, don’t answer that. The answer is obvious even to me, obsessed with strings and sticks as [...]