*deep breath*
1) Stargazing Live - granted I didn't get to watch it actually live ('Kids! Go. To. Bed!') but either on delay or on iplayer, but ah, how I enjoyed it! Thought-provoking, funny, fascinating, intriguing. Shame it's so often cloudy here, particularly in January.
Oh, I took this picture last week on a clear evening (well, afternoon really).
I watched the 2nd programme on iplayer with the Boy yesterday and he was mostly fascinated and is quite keen that we take his telescope up to Granny and Grandpa's next time we go as we'll get more of a dark sky there.2) Flowers! Yes, more :-D. My tulips are past their best now but I've hung onto them for their weird sculptural shapes and rich colours:
but I've also got some daffs! Excuse my excessive enthusiasm for a moment but I love daffodils - the colour, the shape, the smell:
.. the shadows they cast on themselves..Buying flowers is a bit of an indulgence but so worth it when the sun comes out briefly and the windowsill just lights up with colour.
3) Shade cards:
That's the Jamieson's one
All those colours, all those possibilities! I've been playing about with knitters' graph paper this week, doing some Fair Isle/colourwork designs. It's not something I've really done before (the designing that is) but is very absorbing. I've got a few ideas in my head at the moment so the shade card, aside from being a thing of beauty in its own right, is a way of focussing the ideas a bit in terms of colours and how they work together. And seeing the colours is quite inspirational too. Sorry, went off in a daydream there..
Right, gotta go!
8 comments:
Lovely skies and flowers, really getting us set up for the arrival of Spring. I have the Jamieson shade card, isn't it inspiring? Oh for another 12 hours in each day to fit in everything we want to do!
Thanks for joining in! xxx
Star gazing has to be one of my all time favourite things and for sure makes me cheery. As for Spring flowers, I too find them impossible to resist and why should we anyway, especially when they can be quite reasonably priced :0)
I think if I had that shade card in my home I would find it hard to go to work! It's too gorgeous xox
Ah, shade cards ... one of life's true pleasures!
Ah, shade cards ... one of life's true pleasures!
I love shade cards, and paint samples, and lavender skies, and flowers (wilting as well as fresh). Great phrase - "the shadows they cast on themselves."
All very good reasons to be Cheerful. Looking forward to seeing your Fair Isle design!
P.S. I really thought I was following your blog but it seems to have disappeared from the radar. Will have to try again. Blogger confounds me.
I agree! Star gazing is wonderful - when you actually can see the stars. :) Love the shade card! How exciting! Happy week!
My oldest has been caught up with stargazing recently, inspired by cubs to get his astronomy badge.
I saw some daffs today in a hedge, I think ours may bloom soon at the top of the drive, I love seeing them bobbing about outside.
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