scenes from the green space

pattern:  embossed leaves socks

designer: Mona Schmidt

book: Favorite Socks

yarn: Gems Opal sock yarn

needles: 2.50 mm

mods: none

Certain knits seem to go on for ever....this was definitely the case with my green socks. I started them with much anticipation on St. Patrick's day because green socks seemed like an appropriate project. However, since then these socks have languished about, adding much guilt to my day because I was ignoring them. When I picked them up again I pondered the real fact that I was never going to wear these...ever...not even on St. Patrick's day. They are too green. The pattern, on the other hand, is quite beautiful and I would knit these again in a different color and a different yarn. The Gems was not my favorite yarn to work with.

But, now that the leaves socks are finished, I can relax and start knitting stripey socks which are my most favorite knitting project for the summer. I have some beautiful Koigu laying around in summer-friendly colors calling my name. Now I just have to plant flowers that will match the yarn :)

Happy weekend everyone!

We all love our significant others, but I think we would all agree that having a 'girl weekend' is fabulous. The Babe went climbing with his man-friends over the long weekend and I was left at home to relish in the splendor of 'doing nothing'. The she-Gods were smiling at me because the weather was  warm and conducive to sitting out on the patio, drinking wine and eating grapes and strawberries. I felt like a spoiled Greek goddess of some kind. I had to upload the photo of my feast because the whole scene was like an impressionist painting and obviously needed to be captured for posterity and shared.

I have turned my focus almost completely on my garden this week - trying to decide if I dare plant anything yet. We have had the worst spring and even this week we had temps below freezing during the night. Typically by now I have boxes of new perennials awaiting planting - not so this year. In spite of the cold, my perennials are all coming alive and some are ready to show themselves. Hopefully, this is the week I can start filling in some of those empty spaces in my flower beds.

Happy weekend!

back to reality

Well, my vacation is over and it is definitely back to reality. Honestly, there is nothing worse than the first day back at work after a fabulous vacation!! I did have a great time in Las Vegas and absolutely shopped my heart out. Someone tell me why I needed three pairs of sun glasses and a pink Coach bag? I have to admit though that it is nice being at home. My garden sprung to life while I was absent, my cat is ecstatic that I am back... and, there is nothing more wonderful than my own bed. 

For some reason I feel the 'urge to purge'. My closet that is. I don't know if it's spring or just having purchased things I need to find a home for, I am going through all my clothes this weekend and anything that has not seen the light of day in two years is being discarded. Every now and then I go through this need to cleanse my environment of 'stuff'. I want to see empty surfaces and sparse closets and I go on a de-clutter frenzy. And...I want to finish these amazing green socks I started almost two months ago...ahem....gorgeous leaf pattern. I am also catching up on everyone's blogs... I feel like I dropped out of society - I did not look at a computer for 10 days. I AM glad to be home.