Spring?
Why yes, those are my favorite spring bulbs, and snow. Yesterday. You know, after my birthday. When it’s not supposed to snow anymore. Sigh. At least it’s gone today.
Stars of Darkover – ed. Deborah J. Ross and Elisabeth Waters
Is it bad that my overwhelming thought about this anthology is that I’m glad that there was no one story that was just so amateurish it completely threw me out of the world of the book? Most of the older anthologies had at least one of those stories, and I don’t know if the
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Knitting Notes
So this is Pyukkleen, so very close to being done, but for reasons that will soon be pictorially clear, will not be finished in April. This is three casts ons, and one slight rip back, in. Lesson number one of colorwork: if at all possible, print the pattern in color, for reference. Lesson
Mackworth Island State Park – Falmouth, ME
The greening of the forest, with bonus eiders.
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Phoenix and Ashes – Mercedes Lackey
This book is in Lackey’s Elemental Magic series, where fairy tales are told against the Edwardian era, with elemental magic (Air, Water, Earth and Fire) thrown into the mix. This book is Cinderella, but set in the time of World War I. Eleanor Robinson has been chained to the hearth of her home by
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Arthur – Stephen R. Lawhead
This in the final book I had read in the Pendragon Cycle, back in the day (aka, high school). It was also formerly the last book in the cycle – and it’s very much an end book, so it would appear that the two books that come after it take place in time frames
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Garden Notes
I moved the Swiss chard and Tuscan kale to bigger pots today. This means officially giving up on the nasturtiums and sorrel. I guess sorrel seed has about a two year shelf life. (Too bad mine never went to seed. It would be nice to be able to save seed – the
Two Lights State Park – Cape Elizabeth, ME
More crazy surf this weekend. Gotta love offshore storms!
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Knitting Notes
This is the beginnings of Pyukkleen, by Ysolda Teague. It’s the biggest colorwork project I’ve done to date. I don’t normally care too much about reproducing colorways exactly from patterns, but I actually really liked the combinations in the original pattern. I don’t have easy access to Jamieson’s, so I went with Knit