Weekly Photo Challenge: Fun

Weekly Photo Challenge: Morning

The sun rising over Fairy Lake, BC.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Narrow

The wandering peacock was seen through the narrow opening between the trees this morning.

Apparently he moved into the neighborhood two weeks ago. I heard him crying this morning. He is alone. I suspect he wandered away from Hatley Castle and can not find his way home.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Details

A humble bee warming in the afternoon sun.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Look Up

I looked up the other day and saw these wisps of clouds.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Curve

I have always found the geometry of flowers to be delicious eye candy. Yesterday the sun brought out the radiant hues of purple. Couldn’t resist capturing this little gem.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

what a concept. Noticed these lawn ornaments chowing down on the morning glory – a pest devouring another pest. Both can look good though.

Today it was a breading pair that graced our backyards looking for the good stuff. Usually it is just the doe and perhaps a fawn or two. Hardly see the bucks.

Notice how the horns are velvet, this new growth that will soon be scraped off. 4 points and he still looks good. Urban life for the dear can be very harsh. I have seen several over the years with gashes and broken legs from jumping the fences. If there is food – they will jump and pretty much anything (except thistles) will tempt their pallet.

I rarely see older does – parenting is hard under the best of conditions. And this one is so young and small. I suspect her life will not be as long as the bucks. Though you never know she may beat the odds.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Pure

Last summer my partner and I discovered this pool at the top of a dry creek bed. It was amazing. In the heat of summer it was ice cold as it is pure water from the melting of the one of the many small glaciers on Vancouver Island. Where the water is splashing from the large rock that my partner tossed into the center it is over 6feet deep. It is so pure that it looks only to be a couple of inches until you try to touch the bottom!

This gem is called Fairy Creek. After the rains it is a torrent of water but at the height of the dry summer it is only a hidden gem.

Thanks for reading.

Weekly Photo Challege: Numbers

As always I went looking for a photo specific to numbers – as I was scrolling though the massive amount that i have on my computer I decided to take a screen shot of the lot. Numbers – here there are lots. The blue icons are raw images of the JPEG – I have the Sony take both – just in case i want to do some fine editing.

ZeeHood

I have a motto – it is “Let me try this”

In early January I took on a knitting protect with a delicious plum yarn ( found here: http://www.ravelry.com/yarns/library/mirasol-yarn-nuna).

So I stated the shawl and it looked good but didn’t feel right. So, it was frogged – the knitting term for starting over.

From my stash I had knit a similar hood in February – it was the beginning, neat yet not really something I would enjoy over time. So I picked up my needles, checked the gauge and cast on Turkish style.

With a lot of making 1, knit front and back, a couple of short rows I created my ZeeHoood.

I never liked the points of modern hoods so I made the top round like my head!

The front opening measures 46.5 inches so it wraps nicely around the neck when needed. It was finished in the stocking stitch for the nice rounding that complements the style of the hood.

The back of the neck is tapered to a front point that tapers nicely below the neck.

Yes, my model is a melon place on a large glass vase.