yellow

Yipes, I'm quite late posting today.

And busy! I'm off to dinner at a friend's new home.

So here's just a few:














Okay, I kind of just raided my photostream because I was short on time today. But I do have a yellow post from a while back I can share: here.

And did you see this on flickr?

Who else has some yellow in their lives?

Theresa of course.
And Rebecca.
Amy has the best mirrors in the world.
And Vanessa has yellow by coincidence.
Liesl is in too.

Azzy has red and orange up. and now yellow, too!
And Amanda has orange too. and now yellow!

And Mindee has joined in.

Have a great weekend everyone, get plenty of Green shots for Monday!

orange

What I'm reading,



my new shopping tote,

the lining of my rainjacket,

and yes, my very last package. (It's not like they go bad....)

Who else has orange?

See Amy's doll! Too cute.

And Liesl is in today too!

And Theresa of affectioknit!

Come on Cheryl, join tomorrow? And where are you Azzy?

red

Okay red is admittedly not my favourite colour. I don't wear it, I don't really buy it but somehow it does sneak into my home in little places.

A jar of marbles that was my Nana's.

Harry's little truck from Auntie Amy.


My beaded purse.


My old scissors, also Nana's.


and my cupcake carrier.

and of course, yummo, jam.

Who else is playing today?

Amy is in.

and Amanda,

and affectioknit, (I don't know your real name!)

and Laura's way ahead of schedule.

she comes in colours everywhere....

Yay! I'm so glad so many people are interested in this rainbow colour study.

Here's a little graphic/icon/thing. (You can grab it at flickr, just click.)

Tada! Now, we're official.

Let's start tomorrow, and go into next week:

Wednesday - Red
Thursday - Orange
Friday - Yellow

Monday - Green
Tuesday - Blue
Wednesday - Purple
Thursday - Rainbow
Friday - Linkfest!

All you have to do is go out, and click away, and post your shots for the colour of the day. Leave me a comment that you're in for the day, and I'll link to your post.

On the last Thursday, post things that are multi-coloured or one of your shots from each day.

On Friday, link to some of your favourites on other player's blogs.

This is going to be fun, I'm off to hunt down some red around me now. Get clicking, people.
(Azzy, this means you, too.)

Hello!

I'm back from vacation but more of that later, there's much more important things!

See this!



Do you know what it is?

Guess!

That's right! The first zucchini of the summer! Hooray!

I think it looks like a smile...





And this, a whole bowl of Asian peas for dinner tomorrow. Yippee!

I have a ton of photos to share from vacation, and lots of links and places to share.

And a question. I was clicking about all vaca and in the yard this afternoon and in wonder at all the colours at this time of year and I thought would anyone be interested in doing a color-study week, like a rainbow week, Monday:Red, Tuesday: Orange, etc? (Pardon the run-on sentence, people who know me in "real life" know this is how I talk when I'm excited about something.)

So what do you all think? I could make some cute rainbow-y logo and you could mention it on your blog? I'd be mighty obliged. We could start Monday. Or another day, let me know.

I hope you get to see fireworks

Australia Day - fireworks
Originally uploaded by Allyeska

Today I am grateful for:

*My husband and I understanding each other.
*My brother and our annual walk around the artisan fair downtown.
*Throwing together dinner with what's left in the fridge and having it be awesome.
*Water fights.
*My brother and his wife nearby.
*Another whole day to celebrate.
*A wonderful person to watch my house.
*Vacation starts Monday! Vermont and Maine and family that we miss, here we come!

I hope your day was just as great. I'll try to pop in during the week, otherwise, be back in a bit.

right now

We're into our second day of dark and stormy around here so we're snuggled down, with books and favourite movies and crochet. And candles at the ready for power outages, the thunder has been incredible.

I'll be back with some pretty, bright photos when the sun is out enough to not warrant the flash. Until then, I'll be baking and Netflix-ing, and otherwise inside-ing, thankyouverymuch.

Is summer ever coming to New England?

under my pillow, etc

*Okay, I practically inhaled Mudbound, I read it so quickly. It was a good story and the ending wasn't completely predictable so I'm pleased with it.
*A Homemade Life is something I've been eyeing since Jessica posted about it awhile back, I'm halfway through and now I'm kind of rationing it out, too.
*And that cheese book has a date with me and Kathryn some Friday night soon.

And last week's books? Read We Took to the Woods. It's written so perfectly, the voice is so casual, it's like listening to someone you've known forever. I definitely need to own it. And I NEED to get Vegetable Love. Three words: Avocado. Ice. Cream.


And I'm grannyaday-ing again, this time some sunbursts. That's actually navy, not black but the sun was so bright the camera was overwhelmed, I guess. I want to make something big enough for my bed, we'll see how long until I get bored, haha, as always

(pattern here, scroll and click on the left)

Check out this afghan. Love it. I'll be glad if mine is half as cute.
and this one.
Okay, one more.

Everything lately is lovely like flowers. Like this little bouquet of sage blossoms and the tops of radishes. It's been old friends over for dinner and eating leftover blueberry pie for breakfast. Fast hard thunderstorms and walking street fairs. And the weekend still has another whole day.

circus!

Okay, we didn't see the show, I don't think they boys could sit for the whole thing just yet, but we did get to go see the elephants pull up the tent poles on the big top.