new journeys

Happy New Year!!

I hope you all had a fantastic holiday!

I was a busy girl...

...I opened an Etsy shop. 

It is stocked with the two desktop calendars you see here.

the whimsical pixel

I'm not sure where this little adventure will take me.

I do know that failure is assured if I don't even try.

And that's what I've been up to.

I have thought about a few goals for the coming year.

Getting my blogging in order is one of them.

Hopefully you will see me again before next month.

xo

Success is not a place at which one arrives,

but rather the spirit with which one 

undertakes and continues the journey.

~ Alex Noble 

heart paths

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: 

Does this path have a heart? 

If it does, then the path is good. 

If it doesn't, it is of no use.

~ Carlos Castaneda

 

path of gold

The clearest way to the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

~John Muir 

 

happy halloween

As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, 

Let loose upon the Earth till it be light.

~Nicholas Gordon

reflection

A sock and a thought to send you off into the weekend!

I hope you all have a fabulous last weekend in October!!

xoxo

The real man smiles in trouble,

gathers strength from distress,

and grows brave by reflection.

~ Thomas Paine 

arriving

We went for a little road trip this past weekend.

We explored two states and 5 counties.

I shot everything from street to moon by the time we headed home.

I took socks with me just in case there was an opportunity for a glamour shot!

Below is the view of Cape Horn in Washington State.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

~ Lao Tzu  

wordless wednesday

wordless (almost) wednesday

sometimes you thought you got one shot, 

just to find out

you got something totally different.

too cute. love. her.

re-entry

And we're back!

The sheep and wool festival was a blast!

The weather was perfect for the show,

and exploring the neighborhoods and cafes around town.

I have over 2000 images to sort through!

Somebody's shutter finger is pooped-out!

I'll be back with some pics of the show and Baltimore as soon as I can

get myself all caught up!

I hope you have a great weekend!!

If you're a mom to two legged (or four legged!!) kids - 

Happy Mother's Day!! xoxo

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes.

~Marcel Proust  

pixels 'n prose

We ourselves feel that what we are doing 

is just a drop in the ocean. 

But the ocean would be less

because of that missing drop.

~Mother Teresa of Calcutta   

pixels 'n prose

A person's maturity consists in having found again

the seriousness one had as a child, 

at play.

~Friedrich Nietzsche  

energy

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

~Aristotle  We did a little traveling this past weekend. I so love these wind turbines. Those little black spots are cows. Yep, those turbines are HUUUUGE! I hope you all had a great weekend and that your week is off to a grand start! Happy Tuesday!

socktober

It just wouldn't be Socktober without a new pair of socks on the needles.

'Leaf Pile' from Lisa Souza...too perfect a color for Socktober.

Vorticity by Alice Yu.

Can't you just see whirling and swirling leaves in these socks?

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



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I had a good weekend, I hope you did, too!
No travel for me, except for around homebase.
If you went somewhere fun, I'd love to hear about it!

 I cleaned house, and organized various cupboards and drawers.
I gardened (the local nursery had its annuals on sale!).

I test-painted new colors for the trim and front door of the house (too fun!!).

I knit.
I breakfasted with a dear friend.

I skyped.

I'm rested and ready for the week.

Happy Monday!

a summer palette

Beauty seen is never lost,
God's colors all are fast.

~John Greenleaf Whittier 

past present

We must always change,

renew, rejuvenate ourselves;

otherwise we harden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

wordless wednesday

happy things

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself,
but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean,
so must I never live my life for itself,
but always in the experience which is going on around me.
~Albert Schweitzer

I was tagged by the lovely Carolyn to list 10 things that make me happy.

A tough task, but here goes:

1. being at the beach with Mr. NK

2. all things autumn

3. hot cocoa and whipped cream

4. running at sunrise

5. creating

6. detective fiction

7. sunday morning breakfast at the cafe with Mr. NK

8. getting up early in the morning, sitting alone with my coffee and knitting

9. having a curled up kitty sleeping on me

10. northern exposure re-runs

If you're reading this...consider yourself tagged...go forth and list!!

Look who's got the shutterbug now!? Be still my beating heart!!

Happy Friday-eve!!

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images were captured at the beach this weekend.

I still had time to knit a bit. Cotty sock nbr. 2 is well on its way to completion!

The weather was fantastic!! I'll share more pics with you after my shutter/mouse/knitting finger recovers a wee bit!

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
~John Muir