Eye Candy Friday

It's been a long time since I did one of these.

Here are pictures from our recent trip to Hawaii featuring three things for which I am a sucker: palm trees, the ocean and sailboats.



Have a great weekend everyone!

Eye Candy Friday

Happy Friday the 13th, everyone!

I'm going to try for an actual, knitting-related post over the weekend. See you then, I hope.

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The Pacific. As seen from The Cliff House in San Francisco.

Have a great weekend.

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I'm craving red.

I adore how sunlight on a Japanese Maple illuminates the underside of the leaves so they shine bright red.

Ahhh...now I can go back to the blue shawl.
(I'm feeling optimistic about finishing on time, btw.)

Have a great weekend everyone!

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I had the idea for these dewdrop pictures last week, but didn't have the camera handy at the time. So I have to credit Ruth with beating me to it.

I thought about not posting these at all because I don't want to seem like a copy cat. But then I remembered we all enjoy looking at pictures of the same knitting pattern knit by different people. We each bring a piece of our own personality to everything we do. The different approaches to a pattern (decisions about yarns, colors, buttons, etc) make each knitted garment unique. Even the same yarn and needles in different hands produce different results. This is part of the magic of knitting. We are all individuals and with every stitch (or snap of the shutter) we share our own unique touch.

One of the things I love about knitting is the feeling of connectedness. I love thinking of all the millions of hands over thousands of years who have wrapped yarn around needles and pulled a loop through. All those different people, each with their own amazing story, each producing something unique. By sharing the simple act of using sticks and yarn to create fabric, I am connected to all of them.

I'm not the first person to take pictures of dewdrops gently clinging to flower buds. I'm certainly not the most artistic person to do so. But by sharing these pictures, I'm sharing my individuality and connecting myself to those who have gone before. To me, that is beautiful.









Coming soon: Actual knitting content!

Eye Candy Friday

(My First Ever) Eye Candy Friday

I can't promise Eye Candy Friday every week, but if I've got something I deem worthy, I'll share.

Like this picture I took a few days ago, outside my house, around 4pm. That white spot in the sky is, indeed, the moon.