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I rarely join swaps and knitalongs but I couldn’t pass up a seemingly quick-and-dirty swap Beth blogged about yesterday.
It’s called Dish Rag Tag and it seems to hold the promise of great fun for minimal effort. Click here and sign up by the end of the day today and maybe the dishrag I knit will find its way to your mailbox.
Since I can’t really show you the knitting project that’s been consuming my time lately, I’ll show you some photos of my garden. (click on the photos if you want larger versions)
Here’s the first of my lavender that I cut yesterday and set out to dry. The hot, dry spring resulted in a bumper crop:
Next, is a portion of a flowerbed in the front of the house taken at 9:20 p.m. with no artificial lighting. You gotta love living on the western edge of a time zone.
[Pay no attention to my daughter's headband nestled in the dirt or the hosta that's been ravaged by the snails.]
Oh, and here’s the sunset that same night about ten minutes later.
If you know what you’re looking for, you can actually see the Great Salt Lake in that photo.
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Susan | knitting
I’m already signed up for Dish Rag Tag. I think it’s going to be lots of fun!
Very cool photograph of the lake (I think I can see it!)
So is that last one from your house? You can see the Lake from home? (Practically lakefront property…. LOL)
looooooooove lavender. has to be my favorite scent. reminds me of southern france.
btw, on that slug problem, you can put saucers of beer overnight under your hastas which will attract the slugs and then they will drown in it (learned that trick from my cousin in germany!).
That beer thing works really well…
Beautiful photos! What are the little reddish orange flowers? cosmos? Your garden is especially lovely…great lavender.
Thank you!
There are lots of things to keep the slugs away from hostas (mulch, unfortunately, actually attracts them!) but not much that work for deer. They eat the hostas for DESSERT after they finish with the azaleas, roses and daylilies. They don’t eat lavender, however, so I should go get some! Great picture of GSL!
Ok. This is a first for me. I actually signed up for the dishrag thingy! I’m going to practice making some dishrags before it all starts. Gotta buy the yarn for the swap. This sounds like fun.
Is that a Japanese Maple peeking in at the left side of the photo?
Hubby and I recently drove west to east across country, including through the Great Salt Lake…what an amazing experience…seeing it for the first time took my breath away, I was so glad not to be driving at that time!
You have a beautiful garden, thanks for the pictures.
Thanks for the Dish Rag Tag linkage!!
Lovely garden too.
Love your garden photos. I lost my mature lavender this winter due to unusually long cold snap.
My lavendar hasn’t bloomed yet, maybe we’ve been overwatering it. I’m knitting a dishrag too! It’ll be my first. Maybe I should practice or something.
How fun! I just signed up for Dish Rag Tag myself.
Wasn’t the sunset last night fantastic? Cary called me out onto the porch to see it. I love the lake shining like a silver stripe. Did you see the actual sun, just north of your picture? It was a big orange glow, not a ball at all. Very cool.
I’m only sort of sad to see Destash go - I can only imagine the tip of the management nightmare of it, I’d bet. And I really need NO MORE YARN, even if it is a good deal.
Tee hee, this is the second blog I’ve read about the dish rag tag - looks really fun. Gorgeous pictures.
Your garden is lovely! I’m tempted to join…
The beer trick does work ….. but then you have a bunch of drunk snails!
Ohhh… seeing that photo of the lake makes me nostalgic! How can it be two months already since my last visit? I am thinking about flying back for Great Basin… I miss you guys. You didn’t go to Estes…. maybe next year? Any interest in going to Taos with me this fall?