Knitting, cooking and other enthusiasms
Posted in Uncategorized, garden on Apr 15th, 2010
Doesn’t this look like a whole bunch of zombies are just going to rise up and eat your brainz? If you turn you head just so, you’d swear you can see an arm break through the dirt with the fingers stretching up to the sky.
Maybe not.
Maybe it’s just too many hours in front of a [...]
Remember this? My Laminaria shawl made last year with Misti Alpaca Lace, 100% Baby Alpaca.
Well, look at this:
This is from the MOPACA alpaca show that I went to a few weeks ago. I entered Laminaria in their fiber arts competition and it took first place in its category. Second place went to another Laminaria done [...]
Have I mentioned how much I like pansies?
They’re the first flowers I buy each spring. I can’t wait to plant them, even if they get buried under 6 inches of snow the day after.
They’re easy to care for, always bright and cheerful, come in more colors than daffodils, and a bed of them looks soft [...]
Posted in garden on Mar 20th, 2010
This:
and this:
and this:
and this:
Pansies that didn’t make it into their containers.
Like Norma, I spent yesterday at our local garden center since it was a warm spring day and my garden fever is at high pitch. While she was buying compost, I limited myself to this year’s supply of garden gloves and pansies for the [...]
The other day I had a bout of spring fever and went out into my patch of garden looking for some early green. I thought I might find some early daffodils foolishly poking up through the February snow. It took some scraping through the mulch but I did find the first green shoots. I covered [...]
Posted in garden on Jan 22nd, 2010
Local law enforcement officials are reporting the demise of Vera. Friends of this ingénue describe her as pleasing but very quiet and many had trouble remembering their last conversation. All commented on her remarkable beauty, and the tragedy of being cut down in her blossoming youth.
At this time, no witnesses to the incident have [...]
It continues gray and gloomy around here at least in the weather area. Snow melt has proceeded to the point that we’re left with dirty piles of gray stuff and mud in the garden, as evidenced by the tracks across the carpet made by the boy cat’s feet.
Thanks to the presence of Vera however, the [...]
Whatever these are, I imagine the birds finding them in the middle of winter and marveling at the feast.
I’ve cleaned the bird feeders after their summer use, bought new seed for the fall and opened the all-you-can-eat buffet for feathered patrons only in its normal location.
And waited.
For nothing.
Not a blue jay.
Not a cardinal.
Not a chickadee.
Not [...]
I do believe today was the nicest fall day we’ve had this year. It made it to 72 with little wind and lots of sun. A welcome contrast to the last month of cold and rain. A perfect afternoon to spend doing garden clean-up. I didn’t have the heart to cut back the cleome yet. [...]
Posted in garden on Sep 8th, 2009
The sweet autumn clematis is in full bloom and it’s wonderful.
Every spring I cut the clematis down nearly to the ground and string new twine on the 8-foot trellis to give it more room to twist and turn. Then I go up on the deck and string twine from the trellis around the railing supports [...]
