The new Knitty spring surprises are up. I love the socks and I can see me making and wearing the sweater but in shades of raspberry. So go and enjoy the new patterns. I need to write down yardage requirements to take with me to MDS&W which now about 72 hours away. Back to studying. [...]
Entries from April 2008
April 27, 2008
Friday Night Fun
Are is jsut a small sampling of some photos that I took Friday night during a training burn for a fire fghter 1 class at the training center. Te instructor for the class always tries to hold extra burns for his fire 1 students so that they may can build the skills and confidence they [...]
April 25, 2008
My Frederick
Some photos from around Frederick. Apples are big in the northern end of the county so as you drive up the highway you an see fields of white blossoms in the spring. (If you get out of the car, some of the older trees look they are wearing a veil of blossoms.) And in Frederick, [...]
April 23, 2008
Parlez Vous …
Sorry, I hit publish before adding the photos since this time here is the post with the photos.
Last week, I received a wonderful package from my new BFF Vivi. Vivi happens to e a semi-regular member of the cast on the Katia and Kylie Mac show. And the show is how I found her blog [...]
April 22, 2008
Earth Day
Happy Earth Day!!! Today is the official Earth Day although most places celebrated on Saturday. And in honoro of Earth Day, I am going to post some photos of what makes the Earth so wonderful and why we need to do everything we can to preserve it.
April 18, 2008
Eye Candy Friday
Well the spring flowers are finally out up here north of DC. And that means lots and lots of fun with the camera. And I am finally learning to become more comfortable with the manual focus on my camera. So I have been playing quite with the macro lens on the camera. So today’s post [...]
April 17, 2008
Playing Catch-Up
I have received two swap packages recently and I have been really bad about not posting them here. First up is are my mittens from the No More Hundrum Mitten Swap. My upstream partner was Kim of Woven ‘n’ Spun. She knit me a pair of mittens that have sheep on them. They are super [...]
April 15, 2008
Project Spectrum – Earth
I was up in the attic today and took the camera up there with me. You can really see the age of my house by looking at some the nails used in the rafters. And the colors of the beams are perfect for Project Spectrum Elements since the brown is an earth color.
And the reason [...]
April 14, 2008
Found
I found several of these this weekend while cleaning. And a few were much bigger than this one. We will not discuss how dusty the curtains were and how many baby bunnies were found near the floor.
April 9, 2008
Time Suck
I have found an even bigger time suck than Ravelry – Adobe Photoshop Express!!!! Okay it is a time suck if you like playing with your digital photos. And guess who likes playing with editing? And I haven’t even uploaded the photos I took yesterday evening from the garden where I was playing with the [...]
