September 07, 2004
fabulous destiny
Phew! I hope I didn't bring anybody down with that sad story!
And now back to our regularly scheduled Knit-A-Log!
I spent Labor Day weekend in Madison, Wisconsin with Kathrine, mind-reader, herbalist, and nature girl extraordinaire! I have gained new respect for the plants of the prairie after a guided tour of the wilds of one fabulously overgrown Madison backyard. Saturday Henry and I went to the farmer's market while Kathrine worked at the Food Hole (Hole Foods) where she is body care buyer. We got lemon cucumbers, little round yellow apple looking things with cucumber insides! We also got lettuce and heirloom tomatoes, plus a regular tomato from an exuberant young dreadlocked man that was handing them out from a box with the words "Grown In Real Dirt" on it in marker. It appeared he felt the need to underscore his enthusiasm for real dirt by wearing much of it on his person as well.
I also ate an antique apple, from a box that said "Alexander, Russia 1700s." For such an old apple it was well preserved and tasty, plus organically grown and thus safe to eat immediately, according to the nice apple lady.
There was more than one farmer with wool and/or hand-spun yarn for sale, all of it beautiful and more expensive than I could afford, but I patted it and sighed longingly.
After Henry and I got Kathrine from work, she and I tried to go to The Knitting Tree, but apparently they closed for the holiday weekend.
Sunday Kath and I rode bikes around Madison. There are so many vegetable gardens, and flowers everywhere! Especially sunflowers! Hippies, apparently can't get enough of sunflowers! There is also a garden called Olbrich Botanical Gardens, we saw it from the bike trail, it has a Thai pavillion that made me nearly swoon from the sheer beauty of it. It has ornated carved sides and peaks, and is painted gold and shines in the sun, it is truly magical! We sat on a bridge and watched ducks and looked at it for a long time. There is also quite a bit of enthusiasm for bicycles in general in Madison. Hourah!
We went to Taste of Madison and ate corn and saw a very funny (not on purpose!) band called Flaw, there was amazing people-watching, especially all the young people who were rocking out, they were so so rocking out!! And all making the little rock 'n roll finger thing in the air! I didn't know people really did that and I was laughing and laughing, I guess this goes to show how truly old and unhip I have become! Sigh. These young people and their modern music!
Sunday night we watched Amelie, as Kath hadn't seen it and I will always watch it again. I worked on the second orange hand warmer, which I finished the next day on the bus ride home.
It came out a little bit bigger than the first, but in general I am so pleased! They will be so warm and toasty in the winter. I have begun an orange scarf to match, so far doing seed stitch, which I have never used before.
Photos to come!
Posted by pippypippy at September 7, 2004 10:07 PM