Rocks and a Hawk

Granite, moss, lichen, trees

Red-tailed Hawk

Glimpses of New Hampshire this weekend

Kreativ Blogger

While I was galavanting around the blogosphere this week,

The Dragon's Lair, Scarf A Day , Strikke - Og Vevebloggen and A Winding Thread nominated me for the Kreativ Blogger award.

Accepting this award means following some rules:

1. copy the Kreativ Blogger award to your blog
2. put a link to the person from whom you received the award
3. nominate 8 other blogs and
4. link to them
5. then leave a message on the blogs you nominated

Here are some blogs to visit:

(Many, many of the blogs I read have already received this award - which is how I could make my list shorter than 8!)

Finding the Real Me Jennifer and I have some unusual things in common including being engineers, having our houses built for us, and a fascination with tapestry

Hawthorne Works Weaving, woodworking, inventing - is there anything Tim can't do?

I Make Fish and Other Things Talented potter turning toward weaving in 2009

Macomber Looms and Me where Sarah plans to tell us everything about Macombers!

Shuttle Works Studio Drawlooms & other cool stuff in the north woods of Wisconsin

Wrapped in Threads New to blogging, but not to weaving!

Even though I would never forward an email chain letter, I find blog lists like this one very helpful in building our online weaving community - just another thread linking us all together.

Thanks for the award! Please visit my blogging buddies and blog on!

Vivid

Vivid color. Vivid Memories. Vivid Dreams. Vivid Emotions. Vivid Imagination.

My current assignment at Digital Photography School was just called "Vivid". I immediately thought of vivid color, the focus of my pictures for this assignment.

It's a pale time of year here in New Hampshire. No flowers yet. Brown grass. No fall foliage. (No foliage at all.)

Here are some pictures of some of the most vivid things in our house:

Stained Glass Mobile by Jennifer Mitchell

Japanese Figures from an Exchange Student

Sewing Thread

Puppet from Jim's Trip to Cambodia

Magnets on the Refrigerator

Stained Glass Window Panel

Bailey's Brightest Dog Toys

Surprisingly, my brightest weaving yarns didn't make the cut for this assignment. Not quite vivid enough!!

3 Weaving Milestones in 1 Day

That never happens to me.....Since it happened today, I just had to post about it!


Ta da!!! I have two shafts up and running on my Toika Liisa!! I just need to get a project on there now....but having the loom ready for a project is wonderful!!


I cut my tiny twill sample off the table loom.


Plus, I finished my tapestry!!!

I like to do a wrap-up post about each project - so you can be sure that more details are forthcoming on all three of these milestones!

Wow! What a day!

Restaurant Week Portsmouth

Today is the start of Restaurant Week Portsmouth. Many local restaurants are offering special menus for 3-course meals.

Tonight we had dinner with friends at the Dolphin Striker. Crowded and yummy!

Not sure we'll fit any other restaurant visits into our week - but I overheard a couple who had selected four different restaurants where they'll dine. Don't miss out!

2 Good Not 2 Share

2 orange things that brightened up my Saturday....One involves yarn, the other food!

First, the yarn. Look at the size of this kit I ordered from Knitpicks.com!! I pictured teeny tiny balls of yarn, but this is substantial! Bailey is having fun in his job as model! Too much fun!


What is all this yarn for? These cool knitted tote bags. Each kit makes 2 bags....and there are 3 colorways. The kits weren't available for the last month, but they're available now. Knitpicks says this is our last chance! So I wanted to let you know because I think these bags are so cool. (And no, I have no relationship with them except as a satisfied customer!)

Knitpicks.com

As if that weren't enough orange-y goodness for one day, I also tried a new recipe in my bread machine for tomato olive bread from King Arthur Flour. Smells good and tastes great!!


Orange yarn, orange food - quite a nice Saturday!! Hope your world is bright today too!

Vernal Equinox

The vernal equinox occurred this morning, when the center of the sun was directly over the equator.

In our tiny corner of New Hampshire, today we had 12 hours and 10 minutes of daylight, and 11 hours 50 minutes of twilight and night.

The equilux, when day and night are equal length, typically occurs several days before the equinox in the northern hemisphere.

Today is the first official day of spring, but it takes some work to notice actual signs of spring during our walk in the woods.

Bailey can find running water instead of just ice. (He loves to wallow!)

The ice is melting slowly.

Woodpeckers are searching for or building nest cavities.

Hungry woodpeckers ripped this tree apart, leaving a pile of splintered wood as insects started moving around in the tree.

Snow melts around the trees first.

Conifers and moss are the greenest parts of the woods right now.

An arrow left over from bow-hunting season is revealed when the snow melts.

OK, those of you who live where you have daffodils and green grass and budding leaves can feel just a wee bit smug. But spring is here now too!!