more weekend observations: blogs, books, knitting plans, and dog escapes

I quite enjoyed making a random list of observations last Saturday, so I think I’ll try that again. 1. Miriam Felton, the designer of the Icarus ShawlI recently completed, mentioned my shawl and linked to…

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Weekend Tidbits

Somewhat random observations over the weekend: 1. Sad to hear that Madeleine L’Engle died this weekend, but at 88, she’d had a full life. My younger sister introduced me to A Wrinkle in Time in…

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heading back to school

More of you participated in the “September changes” poll than any other I’ve held so far — partly just increasing traffic round these parts (yay!), but also just indicative of what a big deal “la…

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celebrating the seasons

Yesterday morning I woke early enough to watch this beautiful sunrise. Sitting on the deck with my tea, feeling spectacularly lucky, blessed, peaceful.In the photo below, the rising sun outlines our arbutus, the one on…

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yet another My Shoes Wednesday

(with acknowledgements to The Bangles — if you get the Manic Monday earworm, you can thank me!) and credit to Manolo, of course, for the original — Whose Shoes Wednesday— have you played today? so…

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