We've done it! Our 4,000 miles from one coast to the other is quite a trek but it also provides a breather - a different environment, a different approach, a different daily effort. The beach is as beautiful as always even if those mosquitoes are crazy bad (as are the deer flies) and I am allergic enough to both that [...]
Photo by Nancy Olszewski - all rights reserved I was totally stuck the other day - couldn't think of anything to weave or any reason to weave it. It led to a bit of a funk and I was pretty vocal about it. In sympathy and support, my daughter suggested thinking about a butterfly. And then my [...]
raw materials Have I mentioned I love summer? I love the warm weather, the sudden storms, and the blue skies. I can't get enough of the colors of all the flowers - almost infinite in their variety but somehow also a really refined palette. Plus all the local fauna provide us with sounds and colors that don't [...]
I have been spinning a lot lately. I am determined to make a sizable dent in my fiber stash (ha!) which is clearly out of control and summer is the perfect time. First, and very importantly, I can spin outside.People in the Pacific Northwest are fanatic about gathering their sunbeams while they may - by which I mean we are [...]
A nearby house has been abandoned since before I moved into our neighborhood but lately someone mowed its lawn. Curiosity won the day - I went to look inside and, oh my! It took me back to my childhood and those imaginings about the results of an atomic war. Would this be what things would look like? This poor house [...]
