A trip to Jackson

Sometime this last winter we had an opportunity of visiting Jackson Mississippi. It was a Sunday so we found that most everything was closed, but we enjoyed very much driving slowly through the streets and took snaps of what caught my eye. I love the ice blue of this glass building.

I like this chimney design a lot. Maybe its all the quilt blocks or afghan blocks I've admired over the years but this chimney maker seems to have been in the 'block mode' as well.

 One street closer to downtown had this colorful sign. We had a calico cat named Peaches once, so the name caught my eye too.

 

 Throwing this in here, although it temporarily interrupts our visit to Jackson. A neighbor here in Bay St. Louis with a wonderful vegetable garden brought both the zucchini and tomatoes. I was looking through French- Delicious classic cuisine made easy and saw a picture that looked just like this. I realized that I had the same type of shallow clay pot to bake it in so I got to work. What you don't see are the caramelized onions and garlic underneath the other vegies, cook those first, top with tomatoes and zucchini slices, sprinkle with parmesan and drizzle with olive oil. Bake. Yum.

 

 Back to Jackson, where we found Eudora Welty's house. One of my favorite books is her One Writer's Beginnings.

 This is the house ( I hope) I took lots of pictures of other houses, but if memory serves, this is it.

 

Somewhere around the Welty neighborhood.. this area was lovely, although a gray day. It made me think what a nice walking neighborhood this would be.

Someday I will get back to Jackson on a day when more things are open. In the meantime I enjoyed our brief visit very much.

362 days later, more or less...

Riding along the bay we frequently see this beauty. Often shadowing the fishermen, some days he gets a nice share of what is caught or even some bait. He was a little ragged after Hurricane Isaac went through, but managed to survive. How?

 Love driving by and seeing the pelicans and cormorants hanging out, sometimes we catch them diving, fishing. I have some more photos around this time that I will post very soon.

 A finished project, destined for a bride, a lovely lady. This is what I finally did with the beautiful dyed roving Martie did many moons ago, in her 'Roving Art' series, this based on a beautiful painting of an orchid. I loved knitting this. It is the Petal Shawlette from Sock Yarn-One Skein Wonders. I knitted an extra repeat of one of the charts to get it a little larger, and had what I think was a happy accident. I was running out of the handspun and was pretty sure I wouldn't have enough for the leaf border, so I started rummaging through my depleted stash and found this Rowan Kid Silk Haze in this perfectly matching 'greige-ed' off white. It truly 'finished' the shawl.

My stash has depleted deliberately as I sorted through it and donated bunches to different new knitters, those who had learned to knit with simple acrylics can have fun with bits and pieces of fun yarns.

 Another thing we did this year is to get a membership to the zoo; in our meanderings we came across these turtles, enjoying the sun together.

 Our group of knitters continues to meet at the Mockingbird Café. I loved the colors and the concentration of this little knitter. This is practically the only time I have to knit anymore, so I try to make it every week, although sometimes I don't make it.

 Here, my teddy bear, stuffed with lavender, has volunteered to model a baby sweater and hat I finished for one of the girls who used to come early and visit our knitting group. This is one of Jill Eaton's Minnowknits designs and was another fun knit.

I have lots of other photos to share (soon)(very soon), trips to Jackson, Mississippi, and New Orleans, a couple of other projects, more birds. Bear with me. Tee hee.