Last Thursday's sky, and Eye Candy Monday

They keep promising us a bit of rain, but it hasn't happened in weeks, it seems. This was the edge of a front -- off to the right the clouds got thicker and darker, but they just passed over us without dropping any rain.

There's a school/park/old church combo not far from here, where an iron fence has huge rosebushes planted all along it. Just now it is a wall of pink! This looks sort of unnatural in the photos, but it was bright sun, bright pink, bright green!

It was impossible to get a bee to sit still for a photo!

I heart eye candy

Arthur went on a photographic tour of the garden. He loves the zoom, lemme tell you!

Bleeding heart!

Portulaca!

White things off a hedge!

And this one I took: toothless Elaine!
She's lost her first tooth! Many more to come...

It's still Friday

It's getting late, but not too late to add some Friday eye candy!

The kids and I joined KT and J-Rock for coffee at Alterknit this morning. Elaine got bored and wandered around with the camera. This is one of her masterpieces, a shot of the needle roll KT scored at a boot sale in England.

Could this be eye candy?

Elaine's looking for some new perfect parents. Know any?

Blue eye candy

My blue, grey and white earrings, for a Project Spectrum Eye Candy Friday!

I don't really go in for blue much, but once I found and took apart a necklace with those pale blue "pearls" and little snowball beads. Enough beads for way too many earrings!

The little Fimo fishies were made by the sister of a friend, way back in the 80s, I guess!

And there's a bit of greyish seashell, wrapped in wire and a few beads, that would dangle on its own, unpaired.

It's Friday again

Not blooming now, but in a few months... It's trying to snow today, just to cover up the icy, dirty, frozen slush of the last couple of days. I just hope the bulbs under the ground are doing the necessary whatever to bloom when spring comes!

On the needles now

Oh, it's Friday, so I shall find some Eye Candy for you.

I really wanted to show you the glorious decorated house sometime this season, but Mr Whosis, who decorates it, has not been in the usual mood. I hope he is not ill or something. This year, instead of a Nativity scene at the North Pole with light-up reindeer greeting Baby Jesus, we have a few push lawnmowers, a bunch of hay, and this ball peeking out. What's up?

But, things are getting a bit fancy -- the wooden fence bits are now protected from the elements by sheets of plastic. A never-ending source of delight, this...

And, what's getting knitted?
I am delighted to be turning the heel on this green sock. The first one was finished in June! Since I'm planning on finishing a pair of socks for each of the Project Spectrum 2-month periods, I'd better speed up! I did try the first one on Arthur again today, and it still fits, so at least he's not growing faster than I'm knitting!

His blue second sock will fit in with the Feb/March scheme, and so he should have 2 new pairs of wool socks just as sandal season rolls around. Sigh.

Funny, this Knit from Stash business. I've had
this beautiful ball of Lady Godiva wool/silk something-or-other for maybe 3 years. It may well be the nicest looking yarn in the whole closet. But since I am now knitting from stash, I simply must find something to do with it! Three guesses what the pattern is... Right in one, it's Branching Out. I hope it will be long enough!

That's really all I'm working on now, but I've started looking around for blue, white and grey projects for PS and find I have about seventy-million half-done bluish things lying around the house. I'm looking forward to these various blogiverse/ knitalong/ peer pressure things coalescing -- WIP Wipeout, Knit from Stash, and Project Spectrum to show the way. Come the end of September, things'll be different around here!