Beautiful Dribbles

Fascinating forms

Develop from changes in

Freezing and melting.

Patterns with Yarn

I'm having so much fun using YouTube to find new crochet patterns I can follow. I'm amazed at how 2 basic stitches, combined in different ways, can produce such different textures and outcomes.

This one is so simple really, with a 2 row repeat. I like that the pattern reforms itself each row, without having to count stitches even! It feels thrilling to me to find out that I can do this! 

I pick up discarded balls and cones of yarn from our "Take-it" shop, experiment with different needle sizes and color combinations, and make straight up and down shawls: no shaping needed.

This shawl grew so quickly! Completed in 6 days.

Each time I start a new pattern and color, I feel excited. It's the possibilities, the potential outcome that thrills me, and keeps me going. 

What Lies Beneath

I was lucky to be out this moody afternoon to see the clouds coating the sky like this. I'd stopped the car to take pictures of a 'phenomenon' I love observing on open landscapes after a snowfall, and was greeted by this splendor.

What I intended capturing was the unique way in which the snow surface becomes texturized by what lies BENEATH. There are no trees in this open area to drop dollops of snow and cause dimples everywhere, but yet there are dips and hollows without any footprints or snowmobiles having passed over it - t is pristine in that regard. But the warmth of vegetation stubs like grasses or crop residue beneath the snow cause warming, some melting and sinking. 

"I prefer winter and Fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape--the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. " -- Andrew Wyeth

 

Frosted Windows

Look at the amazingly beautiful frosting we found on some of our windows (those closest to our indoor plants) during the recent Arctic blast. We had temps down to -38°F  at one point (at this temperature Celsius and Fahrenheit scales merge).

The beauty of this occurrence had the added bonus of me not having to go outside to capture these filigreed growths on our window. Lucky me!