June 18, 2009

marigolds and lettuces

Yesterday I spent some time with neighbors Garth, Dorina, Amelie, and Oliver. They have a small patch at the Waters School Community Garden (blogged about on the knit-a-log previously- I am a huge fan and frequent visitor of the Community Garden- its an oasis of awesome in the middle of our neighborhood) where they are growing veggies and herbs. Garth, Amelie and I stuck around at the garden for a while, as it was the one evening a week for volunteers and gardeners to get together and tend to things. We did a little bit of weeding, Amelie observed and tested edible plants for edibility. I took a bunch of photos, some of which are posted at my flickr page. Clickety click on the marigolds and/or the lettuces to go and have a look!

Plus, now my kitchen smells like dill, chives, and mint. Mostly dill! :)

Thanks again Garth, Dorina, Amelie, and Oliver for a really fun time!

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June 09, 2009

Amor Mundi

Ok, so I'm trying this blog posting from flickr thing, since I've been posting more photos on the flickrs than I have been updating the knit-a-log.

This is a painting I finished last year at Ragdale, which I'm pretty sure I never blogged about. In any event, I was looking at it, and thinking maybe I'm not really such a bad artist!

Anyway, enjoy!

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May 31, 2009

Critical Mass May and plus bonus dogs and knitting

Friday was pretty red lettuce!! That means it was good!
First I went down to Noble Square, to meet Oso. We stopped by at Lovely Bakeshop, (meeting place on Sundays for the ladies of Noble Square Stitch 'n' Bitch) for fortification- I didn't actually eat a cupcake (this time!) but I did eat a muffin. Ah, yes, rightly they named it Lovely!
Then I knitted a few rows on Oso's second sock. Because I have overcome Second Sock Syndrome, for, I am invincible that way. Sometimes.
A horizontal view-

I meant to take a picture of Oso's foot in the other one- it fits! Hourah!- and then forgot, oh well. Maybe when we have 2.

So anyway, yeah, then after Lovely we rode in May's Critical Mass. I took some photos of people I know-

Being handsome by the fountain!
And also these Frenchies who were cracking me up!

I'm not sure why they were pretending to be French, I didn't ask. So it was a don't ask, don't tell type of situation! But I asked them, in French, where was their bottle of vin rouge?? Their translator asked them in English and they responded with some vague gestures of cigarettes and baguettes. Meh, apparently they had grown bored of wine- this is when I knew they were impostors.

So then I photographed some random cute girls and now I am posting them on the internets without their permission, which is probably wrong but look, look at the cute-

And plus what can be cuter than a girl in a red polka dotted dress riding a bike with a balloon? (Okay, maybe if she had an awesome lucky cat squeaker and some handlebar streamers. Just sayin'.)
Speaking of handlebar streamers, this guy-

Charlie, ate one of mine!!! Pulled it out and ate it!! Before we could stop him. It was pretty funny, actually.
The Mass was its usual mostly merry, slightly scary self, with not any really angry confrontations with motorists that I saw, and very little interference except that somewhere along the line we got hijacked. So we never did go to Chinatown, which had been the plan, but Oso and I got a massed right back to his own front door, up by the Polish Triangle so that worked out fine.

So in case that's not enough pictures, here he is, in his summertime splendor, the real reason for this blog-

At the parkles! Looking for the cookies that he knows are in my pocket!

He knows they're in there! Which is the only reason why he will sit still for the camera-

Seriously. Cookies. Gimme.

Later on a friend came to visit, a uniquely handsome cattle-dog mix, who attempted to herd Marcel! Andy! He has a funny sideways face, which he was born with, although it looks like he had some sort of accident with a car or a wall or something. Nonetheless he's gorgeous in his own way, and plus when he is coming towards you there is this strange optical illusion that he is moving forwards and sideways at the same time.

I was only able to get one photo of him before my camera went kaput, as it is wont to do. And fridges, and modems, and sewing machines are also wont to do! Now that mercury is not retrograde anymore, and not a moment too soon, maybe, oh just maybe, I can hope for milk and lettuce in my life again. Sigh. Oh! Its a long, sad story!!
(and the camera is working again, and the modem is too, kind of! The sewing machine, well, its unclear!)

More later!! Really!!

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May 05, 2009

it smells like summer outside

This morning I smelled it, its a little bit of flowers, or earth, or rain, or the warming of a small dawg's ears in the sunshine, by the lillies of the valley, just beginning to grow and bloom-

If you listen to the internets too much it can seem like the whole world is in a kind of turmoil, and its easy to get sucked into believing that so much depends on these big collective hallucinations like money, geographical boundaries, economies such as they are, politicians in whom we place our faith, or not, loud-talking crazy radio people who will steal anyone's joy for enough fame and advertising revenue. Refuse! Resist! Because!
There's this!

A red tree with tiny white flowers that blooms quietly, out of reach of the world of human concerns, with its own concerns, certainly, but being a tree. Breathing in, breathing out. Looking at the sky. Holding up the birds.
I'd say these are reason enough to hold a parade in their honor-

The Purple Flowers Appreciation Day Parade. Complete with ecstatic dancing, giant puppets, marching bands with really big drums, perhaps a purple blimp overhead. To be followed by-

Pink Flowers Month.
This is what I'm thinking.

Did I post this before?
I've been trying to make a pair of socks for Oso out of these colors-

Thus far I've started over three times, but I like to think the 4th time is a charm. Updates to come.
In other interesting news, I've been cleaning my closet to make way for a new dresser, so I can take the clothes out of the suitcase where they have been for 2 years now- long story there- which I never really minded, because then it always felt like I could pick up and get on a plane and go someplace, which would make my life interesting and glamorous, not that it isn't. Anyway. So I got this Ikea dresser, because my old one is wedged in a closet at my Mom's, and won't be moved. And thus in the re-shuffling have come across more evidence.
Yes! Evidence. That the Big Dawg was an amazing genius, and plus he made so many very intriguing, beautiful, and inspired things. Thus, the idea for the Big Dawg Museum, possibly to come. At least an internet museum. But who knows. So many projects!!
Last night I had a funny dream, that I talked to the Big Dawg on a magic phone.
Another thing about another soul who is gone from us, May 2nd marked what would have been my Dad's 80th birthday.

Here is Marcel peeking out from behind the gate to see where I went, when I was taking flower pictures.

He seez what ur doing there. And it makes him cry.
No, not really!! He's fine.

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