This is the perfect time of year to study color.  Nature is pushing up bright and beautiful colors everywhere you look.  The following pictures are a sampling of some of the yellows.  I have others separated out as orange yellows.. apricots, that sort of thing.  Enjoy, and take some time to look around at all the yellow in your neck of the woods.

Monday, providing that I can find time to post, I will be looking back on the past three years of blogging.  It’s been a ride.  I’m taking off most of the week to go to Aspen.  Time for a break. I’m looking forward to it.  Traveling takes more effort than staying home, and this two step trip is no exception.   

I am still having trouble getting my comments via email.  Some come through now, some don’t.  I still miss some until I check the blog.  Sorry.  I have done what typepad suggested and tried different email addresses.  Some work more than others.  Gmail seems to have the best success right now.  I agree with Kellee when she says that telling your clients to change their addys if they want to get there mail is malarkey.  Come on, Typepad.. what’s up with that?  It appears that there is a new face to Typepad.  Whenever programs are changed, stuff happens.  Here’s hoping that it all works out soon. 

Today I give you pictures.  Inspiration for color combinations, light and joy from the garden.  I woke early and took my coffee onto the deck.  I sat with Bu listening to the birds and watching the ripples on the water.  A loon flew over calling.  That’s rare here.  This pond is too small, too narrow, too enclosed, too something.  They pass on by.  We took a walk in bare feet around the garden.  The grass was dripping with the summer’s heavy dew, cool, a perfect wake up.  I’m off to the Home Depot for more building materials.  It promises to be a hot day.   

If there ever was a day that I felt that I was spinning my wheels (not spinning on my wheels), it would be today.   It happens.  I started out skeining up the yarn I’d dyed yesterday so I could shoot pics for the blog.  Every batch is different.  I know this.  I need to learn this lesson everytime I get a batch done.  These singles have a much softer feel, they have less twist than the last batch.  When I hang them, they hang straight. Not underspun.. but less.  When I first started working with last years run, I thought it was overspun.  I learned how to work with it and love it.  That’s where I stand today.  I’m learning this twist.
I dyed three colors.  Two of the singles and one two ply.  It’s been a battle getting the colors to show right on the computer.

antique rose

merlot and cheese

The color is ‘twilight.  I waited 12 minutes for it to load, first try. Finally.