seasonal tree

I know I ought to continue to use the same angle for taking the tree photo, but the angle I started out with doesn't show the thinning as well as this one does. You can see here, how the inside is mostly naked, but the outer leaves remain.

I have to stand in the street to get this shot. The others have mostly been taken from the front porch. But I think I will continue to brave the street and the stares of the passing traffic. This is a much better angle.

I live in a nice blue-collar neighborhood, and by the time there's enough daylight for photography, people are up and headed to work. There's a guy in a blue pickup that has started to wave when he passes me, standing in the cold with my camera, in my bathrobe and slippers, hair a froth of bed-head fuzz, and face still creased from the pillow. He seems to get genuine amusement from the sight of me. hey, if i have done something to brighten someone's day, then good for me!!


As you can see, it was a bit foggy Friday morning. I love living here!!


I am knitting a seed stitch silk scarf, using up three partial balls of yarn. You knit a row with one color, drop it and pick up the second color and knit the next row, drop it and pick up the third color, drop it, and the first color is waiting for you to go on. It's mindless, but not as fast as I could wish because the three strands of yarn tend to braid themselves together as I work and every few roes I have to stop and untangle. I put each ball inti a seperate zip-lock baggie and that helps a lot, but next project is gonna be one skein of yarn at a time!!

The cats still refuse to use the Magic Genie self-cleaning litterbox. They will crap on the bare floor beside it, and they will use the special litter if I put it in one of their regular litterboxes, but they refuse to set paw in the self-cleaning thing. Poor DH. He thought the Magic Genie was going to solve all our litterbox problems. For his sake, I wish the crapweasles would at least make an effort!