August Break: Orange

I'm treating August Break as a challenge to improve my photos and also to post on my blog everyday. I take my daily photo before looking at any of the other amazing blogs so that I am not influenced. So here goes with Orange, a colour I don't like very much and certainly never wear. I do like it in nature though.

 I have two friends that love orange and wear it well, one of them has been waiting for this trio of washcloths to be ready. Each time she sees me I'm knitting on something else, so I hope that she will be pleasantly surprised when I give her these orange dishcloths later in the week.

That lovely orange flower is pole beans bursting in to bloom, followed by beans in a week or so I hope...........

I sprinkled the beans with the magic garden dust since some leaves were curling inwards a sure sign that all was not well, but after the weekend of rain, more powder needs to be applied.



Happy Monday.

August Break: Window

This is the window I look out of when I spend time knitting in my new studio, it was a dilapidated sunroom.

The lawn hasn't yet recovered from all the construction and a large pile of pine logs is awaiting removal. We had several white pines cut down earlier in the spring. In the vase, painted by one of my darling daughters (DDs) is the last of the purple gladiola from my garden this summer. These purple gladiolas have been making it through the winter in my Connecticut garden and multiplying, a bonus that I don't have to dig them up in the autumn.

It's been a rainy weekend so I'v enjoyed a lot of day time knitting. Please pop over to some of the other blogs participating in August Break 2014. The photography is impressive....I'm just using my iPhone 4S.

August Break: Lunch

Last night I harvested this beautiful cauliflower, it had keeled over in my raised bed in progress.

It has hues of purple and I must say I'm very proud, this is my first successful cauliflower. It's not lunch yet, in fact it's sitting in a jug of water adorning my kitchen.

Lunch today will probably be eaten at my desk, partly so that I can leave work early, after all it is Friday! Most days I bring my lunch to work and today it's coq au vin, parsley yoghurt mashed potatoes, French green beans and peas. Bon apetit.