I should be at the Mockingbird Cafe (left) this morning knitting and enjoying the rotating art hangings inspiring color combinations and more...however I am in a self imposed quarantine due to a flu-like cold. I am tempted to go anyway, but better to be safe... So I decided to post some pictures from my phone camera from a couple of months ago. Once more my friend Dilania's garden inspires with glimpses of color hidden in gorgeous leaves of greenery.

I wish I had a tenth of the knowledge she has about plants and their care. Her garden always has a surprise or two. (or three).

And one shot of a beautiful sunset. I missed the main blaze of color but still found these clouds so lovely, so pleasing.

One footnote, unrelated to the rest of this post: A while ago I posted some photos of a handspun yarn dyed with Spanish moss and turmeric. I am happy to report that I was working toward an entry for Spin-Off Magazine's Handspun Gallery of Natural Dyes for the Fall 2010 issue. While I didn't make the cut for the magazine my entry was chosen for the web page, so if you would like to see it you can go to http://www.spinoffmagazine.com/ and click on the Handspun Gallery of Natural Dyes and check out the details. It was fun to do and now I have the gorgeous yarn to play with. Hmmm.. what will it become?

Back at last...

Despite the silence I have been working away on Cookie A.'s Pomatomus socks and am happy to report that they feel as great on as they look. I took me awhile to get into enjoying the process on these as all knit stitches were knit tbl, but it was probably the first time I was really motivated to start the second sock right away.

I was able to finish these by the middle of August, and good thing, too, as I spent two weeks in an intensive Bible training course where I had absolutely no time to knit. But I did have a wonderful time and met people from all over, like Peru and Argentina, as well as the States.

Before heading off to school I found this shawl pattern on Ravelry, called Dianna, and find that it works beautifully with hand painted yarns. I am so looking forward to seeing what it looks like when finished and blocked.

I may have already mentioned the drop spindle class I taught at the Stitch Niche in Diamondhead. I was very pleased that almost every student was spinning quite well at the end of the class. A few of them are fired up to learn to spin on the wheel, so that will be taking place in the next week or so.

So many things to do!