Yet again, life mimics knitting mimics life mimics knitting mimics life....

There I was, once again, knitting along and all around seeing the same patterns and colors that were in the yarn in my hands.  There really wasn't much time for knitting while in Jackson and there was far too much ripping, reknitting, and repairing mistakes so, in the end, not much progress was made.  Since we were towing a big, heavy trailer full of furniture, C did all the driving, leaving plenty of time for knitting and gazing out the window.  It's the Ene's Shawl from Scarf Style, looking a little lumpy from being scrunched up in and pulled out of my bag all week, knit from Knit Picks' Lace Weight Merino Bare, dyed in the spring time with purple Cottonwood tree catkins from our place and along the river nearby, same as the trees seen growing along the river bottom in the distance in the left hand picture above, second row from the bottom.

It killed me not to stop and pick wild sunflowers and the yellow blooming rabbit brush to put in the dyepot when we returned home.  I know C would have stopped if I'd asked but the trip home was long enough as it was.  Besides, they both grow in a few spots around here, but in MUCH smaller quantities and sizes.   

Comments

[Lolly]

Siri, I love your posts! this one is particularly amazing - you have such a great eye for shapes, forms, and colors :)

[Miss T]

Very nice post. Love the photographs.

[sarai.]

Amazing groupings, even more so than usual.

Also, lovely pictures remind me of home... thank you.

[Amber]

I can't help but smile whenever I see those big rolls of hay. The feed on the coast where we used to live was always wrapped in plastic (to avoid all that rain) but it always seemed wrong to me---something so natural covered in plastic...

I love your knitting here----the pattern, the natural color, and yes, it does mimic the scenery.

Another smile producer in me: Sunflowers!

[lianne]

lovely photos! i just spent the summer working in yellowstone, and seeing these pictures just brought it all back. it's such a gorgeous area, (and so different from back here in singapore!)

[Katherine]

You never disappoint with your amazing talents. Your knitting and photographs are so inspirational. Thanks for the eye candy ;o)

[Heather]

I always enjoy the pictures that you post with your knitting pictures but these ones are especially lovely.

[Ellen]

Oh the big rolls of hay. When living in CT, several neighboring farmers would roll their hay like that and leave in the fields. My children & I loved it when it snowed; the big rolls of hay with snow on top always reminded us of glazed cinnamon rolls, hot from the oven!

[pamela wynne]

Oh, I love the hay photos! Such a keen eye you have. :)

[Laney]

love the combination of photos..

[Sabrina]

Thank you for such a pleasureful post, and very true title.

[Jennifer]

Awwww - I love the snails in the fields (that's what I always thought they looked like in the fields in Iowa). But you are too much. Your yarn miniature picture of the hay bales is just a hoot! You never fail to bring a smile to may face Thanks again for your fabulous photography and compositiong skills.

Happy knitting,
Jennifer

[melissa]

this is such a beautiful post, siri- amazing pictures as always.

[Judy]

I love this post. AS much as I enjoy all of your posts, this ONE, is perhaps my favorite.

[Becky]

You have such a wonderful way of connecting things together!

Thanks for a great blog; I enjoy your adventures!

[Jen]

Gasp! Just lovely. I don't think I'll ever look at a bale of hay in quite the same way again.

Jen