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Apr. 17th, 2004 02:35 pmI'm taking it easy at work today--mostly watering trees, and that's done for the day, so now I kill time until 4:30. I can't believe there are already cracks in the ground around the rootballs of my trees. It's way too early for this. If this is the weather pattern for rest of the growing season, Courtney & I are going to get very very sick of watering trees.
We're in between bloom cycles on the tree trail right now. The early stuff is done or nearly done: reticulated iris, yellowwood, early daffodils, witch hazel and parrotia. The mid-spring stuff is just getting going: flowering crabs, redbuds, chokecherries and wild cherries, silverbells, serviceberries, wild plums, American black currant and wild gooseberry. The Ohio and red buckeyes will bloom next week or the week after; the viburnums will bloom next week. After that it's the more subtle flowers: pawpaw, wild roses, false indido, persimmon, black locust, camissia. And iris, can't forget the iris. I do like watching things change this time of year. Someday, I'm going to keep a calender of what's blooming each week, maybe with pictures, and do a little book for myself. That'd be fun. I really ought to do that in my yard one of these years, too....catch all the different bulbs and herbs and iris I've planted in bloom. YAP--yet another project.
The Unsock Report: I brought the Stonington shawl with me to knit on, between moving hoses. I've started and finished the second of the four sides, and am not quite 2" into the 3rd side (so, about a third done with that part). That counts as much progress. I'm starting to get that twitchy, curious voice in my head that says, "so, what do we want to do with this yarn next?" I started with a 3-lb cone of this stuff, and this is 4th shawl, I believe, and two of those were really big. I probably will have enough for ne more decent-sized shawl out of it, and I've had way too much fun knitting shawls to use it for socks, as I originally intended. It's probably not the best choice for socks, either. Not spun tightly enough, not as soft against the skin as I prefer for socks, and not machine washable. We like machine washable.
We're in between bloom cycles on the tree trail right now. The early stuff is done or nearly done: reticulated iris, yellowwood, early daffodils, witch hazel and parrotia. The mid-spring stuff is just getting going: flowering crabs, redbuds, chokecherries and wild cherries, silverbells, serviceberries, wild plums, American black currant and wild gooseberry. The Ohio and red buckeyes will bloom next week or the week after; the viburnums will bloom next week. After that it's the more subtle flowers: pawpaw, wild roses, false indido, persimmon, black locust, camissia. And iris, can't forget the iris. I do like watching things change this time of year. Someday, I'm going to keep a calender of what's blooming each week, maybe with pictures, and do a little book for myself. That'd be fun. I really ought to do that in my yard one of these years, too....catch all the different bulbs and herbs and iris I've planted in bloom. YAP--yet another project.
The Unsock Report: I brought the Stonington shawl with me to knit on, between moving hoses. I've started and finished the second of the four sides, and am not quite 2" into the 3rd side (so, about a third done with that part). That counts as much progress. I'm starting to get that twitchy, curious voice in my head that says, "so, what do we want to do with this yarn next?" I started with a 3-lb cone of this stuff, and this is 4th shawl, I believe, and two of those were really big. I probably will have enough for ne more decent-sized shawl out of it, and I've had way too much fun knitting shawls to use it for socks, as I originally intended. It's probably not the best choice for socks, either. Not spun tightly enough, not as soft against the skin as I prefer for socks, and not machine washable. We like machine washable.
