I've been on vacation!

Yes, that's why there hasn't been anything new for the last couple of weeks. However, I have some really great pictures and stuff, so I will be posting again soon. :D

A walk in the park

We went for a lovely walk at Tynehead Park. The kids remember going last summer (I don't know why I don't take them more often.) and were very happy to walk along the path and look at the plants and wildlife. We also found some huckleberries which are my favorite berry, perhaps more for the memories than for their own merits.

We live in the Pacific Northwest in Canada, and our climate is Pacific Coast Rainforest. As expected, that means we get lots of rain. Even in the dryest part of the summer (ie. now), it is very green.

Unfortunately I didn't notice that the camera focussed on the trunk, not the canopy, but I like this picture anyways.
This one just shows the 'greeness' so well. The kind of light you get under a canopy of leaves is so neat. It makes you feel cool, even on a warm day.

Flowers and stuff...

I've been trying to take pictures of my yard as the flowers have been coming out, but I keep not posting them. So, here's a recap of the flowers in July.



The first summer blooming Anemone in July. There were lots more after this, but I forgot to take pictures, and then it got hot and dry and now they look a bit shrivelled....maybe I should have watered them more.

The first lily from my sister-in-law to open. Here it is just starting to open. It was such a lovely creamy colour with lots of fragrance.

Here is one of my 'fancy' sunflowers. I planted two different batches of mixed colour ornamental sunflowers and some old seed of the giant plain kind. I got quite a few different flower types out of that and I think I'll expand the garden a bit next year. I didn't fertilize or water as much as I should have, so they didn't get as big or as tall as they might have.

Here is one of the roses in my 'rose garden'. I love the contrast of the pink rose against the old gray fence behind it. I worked a lot more in this garden than I have in other years. My reward is the roses are doing really well and giving me many beautiful blooms.

This is my hydrangea. Usually it is covered in blue, but this year it was covered in Morning Glory. The nasty, invasive, suffocating weed kind. I've ripped out what I could and I'll have to go in and do it again soon. I really, really, really don't like it. My hydrangea's okay, though.

More adventures of Kitten...

...at least I got most of the clean dishes out of it before he climbed in.

Still here.....and craft update

Yeah, no motivation....whatever. That's why I haven't posted for so long.

Anyways, I do have stuff to blog about. I do. Really.

But my pictures are still on the camera. In the other room. And there's that lack of motivation thing. (grin)

I have pictures of lilies and sunflowers in my yard, and some pretty trees from a walk in Tynehead Park near where we live.

Craft stuff:
I've managed to complete the crochet part of the cardigan for monkey-girl! Just over month after my goal, but I'm okay with that. I was kind of sick of that project for a while after ripping the whole thing out and instead of working on it, I knit a winter hat for TKHubband. And then I bought some yarn from KnitPicks (which I am VERY happy with) and the new Options Needles set (which I also am very happy with) and have started a cute summer wrap top from the Garnstudio/DROPS website (so very cool how many free patterns they have!) with my KnitPicks Shine Worsted in Green Apple and Wave. It's so soft and slides super on my new needles! I've also started a pair of socks for me with the Parade yarn in Daffodil (sale!). I love that it's sport weight as it's going so quickly! Also, the colours are quite a bit prettier in person than on a computer screen. I have the "Learn to Knit Socks" book from the American School of Needlework and I'm just making the "Basic Socks" this time. All the patterns in this book use sport weight yarn, so I'd like to find more sport weight wool/nylon to make some of the other socks in it. Of course, my collection of sock yarn (fingering) has grown, so I should just use some of that up before I buy more.

So, I will update this with pictures (hopefully soon) so things won't be quite so boring around here!