resurrection fern

pussy willows, cat tails , soft winds and roses

 

Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses Rainbows in the woodland, water to my knees Shivering, quivering, the warm breath of spring Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses Catbirds and cornfields, daydreams together Riding on the roadside the dust gets in your eyes Reveling, disheveling, the summer nights can bring Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses Slanted rays and colored days, stark blue horizons Naked limbs and wheat bins, hazy afternoons Voicing, rejoicing, the wine cups do bring Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses Harsh nights and candle lights, wood fires a-blazin' Soft lips and fingertips resting in my soul Treasuring, remembering, the promise of spring Pussywillows, cat-tails, soft winds and roses picture taken on my way home from work tonight  lyrics by my old friend Gordon Lightfoot.

switching gears

March flew by so quickly and as it approaches the end of the month it seems I might be switching gears. I have started working a little more with wood and I am finishing up my pieces for the lost at sea show. All the etsy shop items that were sold are packaged up and mailed. The weather is amazing and I am just so excited to get to work on the garden this Easter weekend.  

 That is a crochet covered slice of wood from an orange osage tree.  I have had it for years but this winter it cracked and I decided it needed a little healing coat. 

  

Last photograph for today is a radiant pattern of thin ice on our little garden pond this morning. 

Amazing isn't it?

xo

margie 
 

a boy and his cat

 The boy, my son, benjamin jerzy, born this day, sunrise Easter morning, 24 years ago. The boy who brought so much joy, laughter and poetry to our lives. Oh and I can't forget he also brought edgar, the tabby cat from Quebec into our lives. Happy birthday son, so happy you are home for a few days and we get to celebrate the day together. xxoo

 

tea party by immersion

Remember when I decided on a whim to drop my poetry stone into my tea cup with some tea remaining in the bottom because I wanted to give it that antique look , well I loved the result so much that I decided to dig into my much ignored tea cupboard for more inspiration. 

I had already begun to crochet little coats for some of the tiny tea saucers I found in a bag at the salvation army shop. I will be making these into necklaces with a little liberty tana lawn. They were just staring at me begging for colorful dips in to auntie tea cups.

There are the little trio happily immersed in three different tea baths. Although the colors look quite similar in this photograph you will see later how very different they are.  In the little bowl are some Meyer lemons, my newly discovered love and soon to become a finale for our Easter feast. Just looking at their yellow-orange skin cheers me up.

Let me introduce little miss rooibos red tea, miss pomegranate green tea  and last but not least miss blueberry starfruit tea. These dainty little flowers actually smell as good as they look and sound. 

This is my favorite little detail.

Have a fantastic and colorful start to your week.     

  

four necklaces for the shop

These will be placed in my etsy shop tomorrow, Monday, March 29th at 4 pm eastern standard time. One is made with a very delicate and beautiful sea snail shell, one with a piece of pottery smoothed by the sea and the other two are small flat sea stones. The fabric in the necklaces is liberty tana lawn and is silky soft to the touch.

Hope you are all having a relaxing weekend. Now I really must get back to working on my last piece for the lost at sea show.

     

pretty girl

she glances to the right

and then to the left

not a boy cat anywhere in sight

deep purr 

and then

the perfect pose

starting to plan the easter feast 

and dust off the eggs, bunnies and chicks

don't forget earth hour tonight

hoping the sky will clear for a little frosty star gazing

( tea staining a poetry stone)    

spring frost refreshes

I know at this time of year we all feel like moving on from snow, ice and frost but there is something delightfully refreshing about an early morning walk in the forest where the newly awakening earth is lightly frosted. Here is my walk in pictures. 

I love the diamonds on the sporophytes glistening in the morning sun and the ghost leaves still remaining on the trees are also such a delight. The last picture was taken just before getting back into my car and heading off to work. 

I just wanted to say thank you so much again for a very quick and successful etsy shop update. The stones were all gone in less than 3 minutes!!!! I am sorry if anyone missed out but I will try my best to have another update before long.                    

etsy shop update thursday, march 25, 4pm eastern standard time

etsy shop update thursday, march 25, 4pm eastern standard time, originally uploaded by knitalatte11.

Here is a preview of what will be in the shop tomorrow.
I didn't have enough time to string the necklaces and
photograph them so I will add them to the shop in
a day or two.

connection

A series of photographs most from my recent trip to Boston. I think they are somehow connected and I wonder if anyone else sees it. Feel free to comment if you would like.

  
 

 

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early happy birthday wishes for lisa

 I do believe it is my dear friend in transit, lisa aaron, the famous mother of invention behind the blog and shop lou lou and oscar's birthday tomorrow, the 24th of March. She has been a little hidden from sight lately because she and her wonderful family are in the process of moving to Scotland. I hope you will all join me in wishing her the best birthday ever and an even better relocation. I can't wait to see what treasures she will find in this fair land and I am even more excited to see what Ishi (her darling son) fills his pockets with from his new homeland. 

Lisa and I share a love for all things related to the vast sea. I thought this was a great day to share a few of my favorite photographs from the new england aquarium. I was smitten by the sea dragons and I am sure lisa would have loved them.

Almost all of these pictures were taken by my youngest daughter, Deborah.