Sprucing up.....

I've been cleaning up outside the last few days. Last week's windstorm left broken branches and twigs everywhere. One of my trees is completely bare. So, I've been picking up for days. The grass has been browned out mostly but there were some long weedy spots that needed mowing. And pulled out the last of the tomatoes in the kitchen garden and weeded it out again. Today i picked up a truck load of gorgeous Scarlet, Orange and Golden Yellow mums, Purple cabbages and TallPurple and Green Millet and arranged them around the two porches and around the barn. The mini pumpkings from the big garden went into wheel barrels and baskets too. A few green gourds came out of the garden too but most of them are not ready. Will plant them earlier next year. Well it got too dark for pictures but here's the front door lit from above. Will take some more pics tomorrow. Also decided to give the old blog a fall look too.

Henna's wool

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Henna, whose portrait is my logo right now, has given me the loveliest tricolor wool. It ranges from a tawny gold to rich auborn. I have worked it different ways to blend or not blend and have found that if I comb each lock out separately, I can keep the variation to make a truly naturally variegated yarn. Here it is in a two ply nubby weight and below I mixed it with robbins egg blue merino. I'm also experimenting with a mix of soft green cormo. Also on my lazy kate is a pumpkin and brown nubby mix of merino and agora that i got from spinner friend Fuzzarelly.