Finally a Finish!

 This pattern has the same name as our second daughter! It's not very easy, but it's interesting.

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Hope you all are having a nice summer!

Birds and Flowers!

We recently went to Cannon Beach in Oregon and saw lots of flocks of pelicans heading north, more pelicans that we've ever seen before.

Here's the prettiest Columbine.

This tiny little rose that makes me think of a candy cane!

Korean dogwood, and it's still blooming.

The Mock orange always makes me think of my Grandma Taylor.

We have several Hydrangeas.

Daisies from a plant give to us by a dear friend.

And last but not least this pretty lily that started blooming today!

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Now I need to get back to some knitting. I am working on a sock that's been fighting me as well as a summer sweater where I discovered an extra stitch when it was time to split it into 2 parts, so ripping on that one, too. Sigh. And then there's always yardwork waiting.... Hope you all had a nice weekend.

 

Our Afternoon at Coulon Beach

This past Tuesday the weather was beautiful, so we went to a nearby park called Coulon Beach. It's on Lake Washington, and there are lots of trails, a boat launch, and things to see. Luckily for us, this eagle was visiting!

We also saw this heron. Doesn't it look proud?

Then we saw this family of snow geese.

It's fun to see these statues and what they are wearing at the time. As you can probably see, they are celebrating Juneteenth.

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Enjoy the rest of the week!

Two Finishes and More Flowers

The babies' hats are done, and everyone is waiting for the new baby to arrive and discover whether it's a girl or boy! Hopefully by the time hat weather arrives they will fit, since now they look too big.  As you can see, it will be easy to tell them apart, and to make sure, I added a football button to the big brother's hat.

Our poppies bloomed right on time for Memorial Day and are still going strong. The two buds in the photo have bloomed along with the other buds you can't see.

All of our rhododendrons are blooming, but this one has the most blossoms.

And not to be forgotten are the roses that bloomed despite being pruned on their lower branches by some deer. Thankfully all of the rose blossoms are way up high this year!

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Have a nice weekend! It's supposed to be in the eighties here, and we are having a visit from our nephew who lives Massachusetts!

 

A Finish! And Our Indoor Plants Are Happy, Too.

This is just one of my violets that is blooming now.

Have you ever seen the Crown of Thorns plant? Supposedly this is the plant used to make the "crown" for Jesus, but I doubt that it was blooming then.  Those thorns are really wicked!

Here's my most recent finish. I made these short socks with the Vanilla Latte pattern. It was only when I finished them that I realized that I didn't follow the stitch pattern correctly! So now I am doing it again and also making the leg a bit longer.

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Hope you are having a nice Saturday! It's been raining off and on here, but it's supposed to be nice tomorrow. I hope so!

 

I Love Spring, Don't you?

Our golden chain tree is really happy this year!

Our irises have begun to bloom also, and you can see that we will soon have poppies.

I'd forgotten that there are irises so dark they look almost black!

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Hope you are enjoying the spring blooms at your house.

Guess what?

Do you remember the earlier corn plant picture?  Well, a few days ago we noticed a funny smell in our living room, and sure enough, that crazy plant had bloomed again without our noticing it! It had never bloomed twice before, and this time it was on a different part of the plant.

We quickly cut the flower off and threw it outside! Now we are thinking about pruning it.  We'll see.  

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Have a nice Memorial Day weekend!