On this day of all days, I felt entitled to go outside early this morning and raid the garden…
Although I usually enjoy the roses ON the bush and seldom bring any into the house, today I picked myself a whopping armful of the most spectacular, wildly fragrant roses from every bush in the garden…
and arranged them into the most colorful, exuberant bouquet I could assemble, in my favorite antique etched glass vase.
Only my daughter’s phone call this morning to wish me a happy day (she’ll be home from college at the end of next week) gave me more pleasure than this riot of gorgeous blooms.
And to focus for just a moment on knitting (oh, yeah, this IS supposed to be a knitting blog, isn’t it?), I whipped up another sweet little baby cap during my plane ride home from NY on Friday. Blues, lavenders, and greens for this one, for which I used another skein of Koigu Kersti from my stash. Now to attend to the creation of a few crocheted flowers so it will have the proper embellishment for someone’s new babe…
Whoa, Momma, those are some gorgeous flowers! And to think you got them all from your yard. Jealous, I am. 🙂