Thursday, February 13, 2014

Back At It

Lets take some time to talk about the weather.  I am from a small town in SE Alaska, and windy/rainy/gray is the norm.  Lately, though,we've had a stretch of high pressure giving us cold, clear, gorgeous days.  The blue sky is notable because its seen so rarely, and all the rain gives the trees a green that shines the most when hit with sunlight.  However, that sunlight is limited with Alaska's (still) shorter days, and my work schedule makes mornings the best/only time to be out in it.  So, here are Morning Forest Tromps with Milly, my 1 1/2 year old German Shorthaired Pointer.


 Looking north of town:

and towards the south.


This fall my town's most popular/controversial story involved the design of a new rain gauge.  Measuring 12-13 ft of rain a year is no laughing matter.  To me, all this means is that the sparse sunny days are not to be wasted.

So we hiked mountains,


went to the beach,

and got out on the water.

Glad we did, too, because now its back at it, this time with snow accumulation heading towards 9".




Saturday, February 8, 2014

The First One

Starting this thing off with photos of two of my favorites.  Undersea critters + knitting equals a result I am in love with.  A lot more tweaking to come in this blog, but the first post began to take on mythic proportions in my brain.  Might as well just start.

Patterns are Jellyfish and Kraken from Amigurumi Knits by Hansi Singh.