I’ve been seeing a lot of butterflies in the past couple of weeks, most of them appearing to be Western Tiger Swallowtails, which is very cool, since it seems like it’s been MANY years since I’ve seen any at all.
Tonight when we went to cover up the chicken coop, this one was sitting on the window ledge, looking a little worse for wear. When I put my hand on the ledge next to it, it climbed right up onto my hand and just sat there for about 15 minutes while I tried to get a decent picture of it.
Sadly, I don’t think it’s long for this world - its wings were pretty shredded, and there was the big chunk missing from the bottom of the right wing. I put my hand back to the window ledge and it crawled back off and just sat. It was awfully neat getting to be that up close and personal with it, though.
June 15th, 2007
No, these are not the photos you were looking for.
But oooh! Yummy handpainted sock yarn goodness, courtesy of Kirsten at Through The Loops (and I know you’re jealous of my consistently crap photography skills and inability to get any kind of lighting to ever work FOR me…):
And (no laughing, Lara), a genuine quilting injury (caught my arm on a pin while reaching across it, and rrrriiiiiiiiippppppppppp went the skin. Woot! And who knew it was that difficult to take a picture of your own forearm? Not I, certainly):
And, a truly rare (for me) good wildlife shot (mama seagull on the piling at the ferry dock - the babies are Not Cute anymore, sadly, but this picture makes me giggle):
That’s it for now. It’s been a tremendously fucked up couple of weeks, so not much has gotten done, and really, there’s just not much to tell. Things are picking back up and getting less crappy, so actual knitting content will return soon.
September 4th, 2006