Sit and sip a nice cup of tea with me, while we chat!
After refreshing my memory about the things I've posted this year (not much!) what I see is that I really need to get down to something interesting and uplifting for you to read.
The past month and a half, I have been working on a turquoise sweater for a friend and knitting patron who lives in Illinois. I'll write up a little more about that later this week - maybe, if I remember! I've got a couple of other projects just off the needles - but no pictures! I guess I'll have to round them all up and tell you about them.
In the meantime, I have been so busy, and this summer included so many things where I was either the hostess, or primarily responsible for the planning, or photographing it! In the past fourteen weeks, I believe we have had two weekends at home together. I know many people would think that's a lot, but I don't run well on busy. You know, I'm not going to say more about that; you wouldn't care to hear it and I don't care to recount it. I'm lucky to be where I am - in so many ways. Instead, I'll tell you this. Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to tour the big clock tower in downtown Denver, which I've been wanting to do for years! It was a paid tour, but it was well worth the ticket price. Here are a few of my finished shots:
clock gears
I toured the clock on my own, but the previous day, four of us went to see a bunch of things around Denver, including an architect firm, some historic buildings, the opera house which is part of our theater complex, and a couple of churches built in the late 1800s.
Ellie Caulkins Opera House seating
A trio of windows at Trinity Methodist Church, Denver
I've been working on reading more. I mentioned previously that I've been listening to this podcast, What Should I Read Next? and I'm challenged to get back to reading. One of the recent guests of WSIRN said that she realized that she used to fall asleep with a book in her hands and now it's a phone... I think many of us can relate to this shift in our lives over the last 10 years. I rarely go to bed with a digital companion but do have a tendency to get absorbed by things long after everyone else has gone to bed: like knitting one more row, or cutting out a pattern, or filling in one more genealogy chart.
I've also been enjoying this chatty genealogy podcast, Genealogy Gems, with Lisa Louise Cooke. There are so many fascinating aspects to genealogy, I'm finding that I've only just scraped the surface!
One unseasonably chilly summer evening, I picked up Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac, which my thoughtful husband had given me awhile back after I mentioned that I would like to have it. I'm really enjoying the journal-type voice of her writing, it's very cozy. That's suiting me just perfect at this transitional time of year. I find that a good book coaxes me away from all the other things, and helps me wrap up the night. And so now, I'm off to find it.
I hope you're heading into a nice month of autumn changes. Tell me what you have going on!?
Sounds like you've been terribly busy -- but having lots of fun. Your photos are beautiful, as always. And tap, tap, tap ... you forgot to post the pictures of the knitting LOL.
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