Today we walked at Morden Colliery Park. It was grey with a light drizzle – lovely walking weather. The paths were edged in brilliant green and the tree branches were greening up overhead! The side paths looked like fairy lanes! Such an alive walk!
We saw two new (to us) flowers! The most exciting were yellow lilies, a member of the Fawn Lily family, but with larger leaves and a more clustered growth pattern. Curly Lilies have all separate leaves and stems, no clumping; the yellow lilies all seemed to grow in clumps or clusters. In 20 years of walking around Nanaimo I have never seen the yellow lilies! Today our timing was perfect!
It was a perfect walk in other ways as well – so many flowers were coming into bloom or just finishing their season!
We saw lots of Pacific Bleeding Heart, Trilliums in all colours – pure white to deep purple. I don’t often see so many perfect “old” trilliums! And we saw another new flower. This one is called Hookers Fairy Bell. It is another small white flower, perfectly beautiful!
Though they are struggling to handle the rain that has been falling pretty continuously since about 7 days ago!
They say that the rain promises to hang around for at least five more days. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t mind the rain, there is something comforting about the sound of rainfall, and beauty in the greenery dappled with raindrops – and there have been random glimpses of blue skies and sunshine – but we want more! The flowers want more and my muddy, construction zone yard wants sun too – only then can it be finished!
The flooded basement is still awaiting carpets and nothing can be moved back until the carpets are in the trim is replaced – current date for carpets is April 19th! Patience is not really my strong suit! LOL! I am finding lots of yarn I had forgotten and coming up with new ideas for the yarn I am finding!
The upside to everything being upside down!
I have been knitting a lot right now – and starting a lot of new projects right now – I have Spring Startitus! And my current projects all seem to be packed in boxes waiting for the basement to be finished with the finishing!
What is on your needles? Do you suffer from wanting to start multiple projects in the Spring? I suffer it every year! It is like my brain is exploding with ideas! My hands can’t keep up!
As well as a Chunky Shrug for the painting class this Summer and the list just goes on!
Today we walked in the rain at Colliery Dam Park. The old fruit trees are blossoming and the leaves on the lupine look like they have been sprinkled with sugar – the drops are so tiny and numerous!
No wonder I love beads on my knitting everyone dapples the knitting just like the rain on the plants!
Have a wonderful day!
Happy Knitting
Lynette
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Random Thoughts and Minor Musing of another Knitter – compulsively addicted to the craft!