Fiberrant

At last, I’ve gone over to the other side – I got a Mac. (And an iPad, but that’s a story for another day.)

Rock cress

Setting up the new machine, and playing with years of digital memories in iPhoto, has gotten my creativity raging again, and since the weather is so incredible, I’ve been out in the garden. NOTE: “Setting up the new machine” actually consisted of copying my photos, music, and knitting patterns.

The rock cress, phlox and late primroses are in full bloom. I love the carpets of color in the rock garden! Everything now is in shades of pink and purple, except for a few tulips hanging on. I’ll never be rid of the grape hyacinths – they’re pretty, but there are so many of them.

The daffodils are nearly all gone – it’s time to clean up the spent blossoms. Our tiny azalea is showing some magenta, though it looks dead 11 1/2 months of the year. The roses are budding, and wisteria is blooming. Though nearly every lilac in the city is in full bloom (today is the best day to visit Highland Park, but the Lilac Festival isn’t until next week) ours is at least a week away.

Yesterday, we went south to Cumming Nature Center in Naples, NY. The boys had fun herding snakes, tracking muskrats in the pond, and generally horsing around. The place is a bit meh, though the location is interesting – there’s a beaver pond, a stand of Norway pine, wetland, grasses, and more. A woodpecker (or yellow-bellied sapsucker? don’t know, never saw it) was working away somewhere in the treetops, and a pair of Canada geese were having some kind of debate on a log in the middle of the pond. The beavers moved on decades ago, but we spotted a muskrat building his cattail lodge.

Today is heavy, waiting for the rain. We’ll be visiting Corrie & Bowden later this afternoon, and Staffan is rehearsing his newscast for homework. Meantime, I’ve got Faces to confirm.