December 2011

knitting, travel

I’m back!!!

I couldn’t connect to the WIFI avalable in the flat that we rented for 10 days in Barcelona so I have a lot of catching up to do.  My two kids had no problem connecting with their Macs; but there was some sort of incompatibility with windows and a Dell program on my computer.  Believe me […]

reality

Five and change…?

Every once in a while I respond to a blogging challenge.  Writing is a little more time consuming than photography – unless you count chasing cars with reindeer ears and red noses (on the grill) – the nose not the antlers – they are on the roof somewhere….I need a photo for the heading “silly”

knitting

HB MPM

I said in an earlier post that I knew some interesting people, well Mary Pat is right up there on the list of “Interesting People I Have Known.”  MP is a knitter with a very eclectic sense of style. For example, I have never known her to wear a “pair” of earrings. She always wears

knitting

Rat-tat-tat……

A very big “RAT-TAT-TAT….” because this is what I posted for big in the photo scavenger hunt. It’s one of two woodpeckers on a metal “tree trunk” – a sculpture near the CNtower and the Skydome in Toronto. We were down there buying a “Blue Jay’s” (baseball) related gift for our daughter and I just couldn’t resist

knitting, photography

Family time

This is what I posted for “family” in the photo scavenger hunt.  They are in the little Estonian deli near where I work. We haven’t had a substantial snowfall yet so no “real” snowmen. But these are pretty cute. It always amazes me how different cultures interpret similar things. These are presumably a northern European

photography

Let there be lights

This is what I posted for Lights in the photo challenge.  It’s the cedar tree in front of our house, that we decorate every year with blue lights.  Actually, the tree is one of those “things” that just happened.  We once had a spreading cedar bush there and had to move it – taking up too much space – didn’t

gardening, words

A Rose by any other name……

….would still bloom in December….maybe.  These were still blooming outside the Second Cup on Mt. Pleasant today – Dec 7, 2011. I am in awe, obviously, that we still have these precious flowers when we really should be burying their shrubs under a foot or two of snow. Maybe I should change my name to

gardening, knitting

Gilding the Holly

This is the time of year when we try to make everything “shine.” We put frosting on ornaments and lights in trees. We put up beautiful glass decorations to enhance and reflect light.  Perhaps it’s because the days are short, that we need to get as much light as we can, from wherever we can.

knitting

The last roses of summer….

Well here they are.  I picked them about 5:30pm on Dec 2, 2011. This is absolutely that latest that I have had roses blooming in the garden.  Our last date prior to this one was Nov 27 a few years ago.  I am also in another photo challenge – hope you can stand it.  I

gardening

Holy Hollyhocks, Batman……

I hope that you can stand another scavenger hunt, because I’m in one again for December. This what I posted for “green.” It is very “ungreen” though, in an ecological sense, because it was taken on December 1, 2011 about 6 blocks south of the 44th parallel of latitude North. These are Hollyhocks blooming in

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