Secret Garden

If you keep your eyes open when you walk around the District, you’ll see many beautiful little nooks and crannies like this. My grandmother would have said these are the places where fairies live.
On another note: The thing about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) is that it saps your ability and desire to do [...]

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Inspiration is in the details…

How many details do you see? When I took this photo, I didn’t even notice the little checkerboard pattern beside the window. So when I downloaded the photos into my Mac, seeing it was a lovely surprise. Isn’t it funny, how we “see” or fail to “see” things, and simply imagine others?
Being an artist–of [...]

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Bad Yarn Karma Reversed!

First things first. Here’s some belated eye candy:
The image quality sucks–I snapped this with my cell phone camera yesterday–but those colors were just gorgeous.
Anyway, I’ve been away for a few days. Not feeling so hot. I had a medical issue last week (Maggie wasn’t the only one) and followed up with a doctor’s appointment yesterday. [...]

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Where do you find inspiration?

I find it in the gorgeous colors of a perfect spring day: Robin’s egg blue; pale, sandy beige; tart, fresh green; and the glorious colors of blossoming trees illuminated by the golden morning sun.
Looking at these photos, it’s obvious I’ve been in the mood for pastels mixed with brown. Pink and brown, pale green and [...]

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It’s Cherry Blossom Time: A Festivus for the Rest of Us!

The Cherry Blossom Festival is a yearly delight for those of us who worship long, balmy days, tender new foliage, the year’s first flowers, and all the other glories of spring…
Unfortunately (for us, that is) this delight is a bit tainted by crushing crowds of camera-toting tourists, but they’ve got a right to be [...]

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Cherry blossoms and so much more…

PS. Click on the first photo to enlarge – or, if you have very good eyes, just look closely – and you’ll see the White House at the end of 16th Street…
All photos (c) 2007, Hannah Six
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Grey Saturday…Warm Colourways

Hypothetical Situation: You have $60.00 to spend on yarn. What do you buy?The answers (if you’re me, and, like me, you have a “sweet tooth”):
1) A skein of Sundara Yarns’ luscious Cherry Blossom sock yarn. I live in Washington, DC, so this is a must-have, right? (Oh, Purly, puhleeeze tell me I can still get [...]

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Nor’easter

Beh.
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It was a gray day…

But not for this guy’s sweetheart!Happy Friday!
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Cold City, Warm Feet…and Barbara Albright’s Final Book

I am not knitting for charity. I am not knitting for Peace (though we need it NOW).
I am knitting for SPRING. It will come. I believe.
Here’s my expression of faith:These socks cheer me up a bit, even though they are going to be a present for someone (I won’t name names). The pattern is Simply [...]

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