retro readers

oh, hooray!!!  I didn't need an excuse to read retro, but add to it that others whom I admire from afar are doing it and asked if I wanted to join, how could I say no?  I heart old-timey stories.  So, I joined!  Just like a club from childhood....  Wanna' join?  Who says you can't go back?

this moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. Inspired by Soulemama.

this moment

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.  Inspired by Soulemama.

travelin' blues

Before we left, the packing was what gave me the blues. Now that we're home, well, I'm missing the good company of my sister and her family. But while we were there, the only blues I noticed were the glorious ones provided Nature.

::: Spencer Spitt, Lopez Island, WA :::

::: Shark Reef, Lopez Island, WA :::


:::Bay view, Seattle, WA :::

It was a great vacation. We took in some real beauty: companionship, nature, and real, fresh crab! Thank you to my sister and her family for spending their week with us in their town(s), it was really a dream of a vacation!

this moment

{this moment} - a Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. (inspired by SouleMama)

bee season

Do you see that sweet bumble bee feasting in the sunflower below? He must have been completely drunk with pollen, he's hardly visible because he's covered in it! {This is a photo from last summer since this year's sunflower crop was enjoyed as salad by the deer. A few of the stalks which were left over from the deer's feast have sprouted some blossoms, but they're stragglers, late bloomers. Ah, well.}I have a thing for bees. Their buzz is among my favorite sounds, along with the sounds of the breath of a sleeping child, rainfall, chirping crickets, wind in the trees, laughter, waves.... I like achieving the point of quiet at which a bee can be heard.

I also have a thing for stripes.

Bees + stripes = happiness!These are my Skew socks in Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Bee Stripe. Socks only a bee-loving stripe-crazed knitter could love because they are busy in a dizzying way! Do they ever make me smile. I can hardly wait to sport them in my clogs this fall, but I will be patient as there is still a bunch of summer to enjoy.This pattern is genius, really. Mind bending. A leap of faith. Blind following is required. And the reward is plenty. Not entirely unlike the life of a bee, right? I really enjoyed knitting these and will probably make others. I highly recommend it to you! How are things with you? Bearing the heat ok here in the northern hemisphere? Just warming up down under? I'm wishing you well from my part of this wonderful internet bee-hive. Buzz... buzz... buzz...

signs of summer

::: fireworks :::

::: veggie patch :::

::: water play :::

::: watermelon :::

::: flower garden :::

::: baseball :::

::: sunflowers :::

::: sunflowers :::

::: sunflowers :::