Awakening

grass art, originally uploaded by robayre.

You may not be able to really tell what is going on in this picture, but it is momentous. This is me getting to paint outside, something I haven’t done in years and years and years. In fact, skip the painting. Just sitting outside and enjoying the outdoors…that is something I haven’t been able to do for years and years and years. It almost brought me to tears. Sure, I would go over to my folks’ house to mow, but I didn’t lounge around or really stop to appreciate the outdoors. Now I can just go right out my patio doors and plop myself down on some wooden benches and just lay there. And I do.
Matt and I have been hearing all sorts of bird this spring and mimicking their call. It was a while before I thought to myself “You know, I don’t recall hearing, or at least ever consciously listening to birds’ calls the entire time I lived in that dungeon apartment.”
It’s spring, and the plants and wildlife are not the only things coming back to life.

I’ve added a yellow framed yoyo set to my etsy shop today.

And, this weekend I finally decided to devote some time to making a scarf from a pattern in the Happy Hooker book. It went by so quickly, I made two! The more green one was made using my own handspun yarn. The great thing about this pattern is that it goes so quickly and it doesn’t use much yarn. You could probably make two from one skein of yarn. Plus it looks so cute. Of course, there is the problem now that it really isn’t scarf season anymore.