Lama's at petting zoo

Zinnia's at Petting Zoo

Mountain Spider Webs

Deep Creek Lake Wedding Weekend

Sunflower

Goldenrod

Seidling Hill or The Gap

We could see this for an hour before we suddenly realized we'd be driving through it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideling_Hill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncline

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Formation

Seidling Hill close up

I'm Back

I'm Back, through tropical storms, earthquakes and about 3 weeks of working everyday:
Earthquake Damage

Gosh, the entire month of August managed to slip by without a post. Work kept me away from the blog and also away from my needles and hooks for most of the month. The earthquake happened the day after my birthday, so I'm not responsible. Unlike the earthquake last year, this was was a shaking up and down. I liked the one last year better.

Current projects:

A large stash-busting granny square afghan. In short, can't really buy any more yarn until I use the yarn I have. Used all of my KP Creme Brulee Comfy Worsted (about 6 skeins); KP Eggplant Comfy Worsted (4 skeins); 70% of Caron One Pound acrylic and am plowing through a 787 yd cone of Pigsah 4/4 cotton in the Persimmon colourway. I think my 8 skeins of Vanna's choice will be next. This is my bed project. I try to crochet at least one side before I fall asleep.

Kat Coyle's Shirt Row Skirt: This is a project for the skirt KAL. I started it before the KAL kicked off in August because I suspected I wouldn't get to work on it much. Plan to start knitting this again this week.

I'm using Knit Picks Cotlin in the Loden colourway.

Ruffled Granny Rug

I signed up for two Craftsy classes in July: One intro to crochet; the other on fitting knits. Need to get back to both of them. But it was truly such a surprise to me Friday night that although I had work to complete, that I would be able to stay in all weekend to do it. So as part of my continuing stash busting drive, I started the Ruffled Granny Rug and am almost at the end of about 500 yards of Pigsah 4/4 cotton in the Desert Gold colorway. Being able to read the instructions to crochet this is such a boost. BTW if you haven't checked out Craftsy, do. The classes are superb and their daily email contains hidden treasures.

Purchased Knit One Knit All during the Knit Picks sale. What a delicious addition to the Elizabeth Zimmermann library. Interweave had a subscription sale, so I subscribed to Interweave Knits.

Netflix: Finally took the plunge and changed my subscription to one DVD with unlimited streaming.

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