Lately, I’ve been entranced by Ishbel, Ysolda’s lovely and popular shawl pattern. My own efforts to make an Ishbel shawl started out pretty well, but ended in knitting disaster. Snowy and Mithril helped me choose a gorgeous Malabrigo sock yarn in the Violeta Africana colorway, and I knitted happily away while vacationing in Hawaii. [Malabrigo yarn! […]
Spring Color
From my Wisconsin garden.
Orange
More color, more light.
Green
At home in Wisconsin, my living room is the color of a fresh Key Lime pie. I guess you could say I really like green. Especially in the wintertime. Now it’s that time of year again. Green time: bright chartreuse against the gray. For months, we’ve been waiting for it.
Flood waters
I went up to Fargo at Easter, and the flood waters were still high. But the crisis had just passed, leaving the entire city strangely static, as if it were a surreal, abandoned version of Venice. In North Dakota.
Christmas Fox
On Christmas morning, a fox came into our yard. It circled under the apricot tree… …then settled down to rest.
Road to Hana…
..and the north shore of Maui. We got to Hana on a twisty road that followed the north shore. There were bamboo groves in Haleakala National Park. Very Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Waimoku Falls–we hiked up to the falls through the bamboo forest. Dark sands at Hana: the view from our lanai. We saw mountains […]
Hawaiian Coastlines
I spent a lot of time on Maui taking pictures of the ocean. Big, crashing waves. And long shadows that stretched out to the sea.