Lots to report, as you can see it has been a while. Never intended to allow such time to slip by between posts, but life does happen. The days fly by. Lots of exciting things have happened and I promise an attempt to catch up within the next couple dozen posts.
I’ll start simple. The Woodland [...]
Vintage crochet flower basket appliqué for creating a decorative pillow. Pattern included.
Library Afghan Square
The Penn Yan Library sponsors a knitting group on Thursdays. I’ve been attending now for a couple of months and it has been good in terms of keeping me on track and inspired with my knitting projects.
A group knitting project has started, the creation of a sampler afghan. Most of us are knitting [...]
Hummingbird and Hibiscus
In an earlier post, I mentioned having signed up for a china painting class. This class, or seminar, was last week as part of our visit to Georgia.
It was interesting. Even though I have an art background, I jumped into the seminar with zero experience with china painting. Though in all fairness I had called [...]
at a hangout in my hood with the sun dropping below my knees and spring just days away…
©Llewellyn Lafford@Zapix
Originally uploaded by LlewellynL
On a back road west of Geneva, chasing the setting sun toward Penn Yan, Laurel and I spotted this cat snoozing in the high window of a stone barn. Still warm in the fresh shadows, he appeared intent on completing his nap and remained supremely unintimidated by my approach and mumbles and clickings.
Originally uploaded by LlewellynL
–Ah, Nature!
–A gently meandering stream, its glassy surface reflects the verdant boughs and cirrus wisps of a late summer afternoon.
–Within its cool bosom: flitting minnows, marine ferns, mossy rocks, lily pads, semi-drowned shopping cart.
