My mind and my photography have been on two tracks this week: berries and knitting. The wineberries have come in, and I think I’m doubly interested in them this year because I pretty much ignored wineberry season last year. I’m making up for lost time. Additionally, I’ve discovered some blackberries around my office and in my own yard. So that’s cool. I have a black thumb, so when things just grow wild around here it’s exciting. I kind of want to look for some more berries to plant, though. Or, more accurately, to get Neil to plant 😜 If I had blueberries, and then maybe something more unusual for this area, like boysenberries or loganberries, then I could just whip up a Wineberry Crisp without ever having to buy any fruit at all, and it would be full of less-than-typical berries! If there’s anything I like more than doing things in a less-than-typical way, I’m not sure what it is…
As for the knitting, I’m on a deadline because I want this sweater finished before I leave for Ireland next month. There should be no problem hitting that, as I only have sleeves left as of last night. So now I have a new self-imposed deadline of finishing the sleeves this weekend so that I can publish the pattern ASAP. Keep an eye out for that, because as long as I can convince my fingers to knit like the wind, the Fireside Cardigan pattern is coming out in the next seven days.
So, what is This Week in Pictures?
It’s a roundup of the microblogging I’ve done on Flickr and Instagram all week. This includes photos I shot for Project 365 and any other extra images I may have posted.
Photos taken with 📷 (Canon EOS 80D) or 📱 (Samsung Galaxy S7).
Ready? Cast your mind back to this time last week…
Saturday
I was going to take a picture of the lily, but this is actually more interesting. I’ve never seen such a pale dragonfly before.
Sometimes it makes me sad that my kids are no longer little and interested in spontaneous Summer fun. But you know what? You can actually stick a sparkler in the wet grass, light it, and have a fun little photo shoot all by yourself. And you can repeat as necessary without anybody getting impatient about all of the picture taking 📷. Fun night. Thank goodness I am easily entertained 😁
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Sunday
If the measure of a weekend can be found in the number of inches knit, then this has been a good weekend indeed.
Monday
It was chilly at my desk. And I was getting tired of canned air anyway. So I took my laptop outside to work for a while.
Tuesday
I went outside on my lunch hour to pick some wineberries from the brambles at the edge of the woods near our office building, and while there were plenty of those, I also found two other kinds of berries. My research tells me these are black raspberries, and the others (not pictured) are blackberries. I am curious if there’s a more specific variety that I can narrow it down to, though. More research is required!
Story for Tuesday
Wednesday
Last night, while picking wineberries in my back yard, I disturbed a robin, who was very angry about the whole thing. It turns out she had a nest about a foot away from where my head was! I went back this morning with my camera and zoom lens, and stood a respectable distance away to see if there was anybody in the nest. I found this guy, who appears to be fresh out of the shell! No wonder mama bird was annoyed with me.
Story for Wednesday
Thursday
A little bowl of homemade fruit crisp beats a breakfast bar any day.
Friday
Filling up my breakfast tray on this beautiful Friday morning.
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