One Day at a Time

UPDATED with pictures at the end....

[title to be sung to the childhood taunt that ends with neener, neener, neener :-) ]

It all started when Tracy visited the Rocy Mountains and posted these lovely pictures of the columbine. I left her a comment saying that I'd be happy to share some of the seeds from my blue columbine; not the Rocky Mountain version, but definitely columbine, blue, and gosh-darn prolific.

Well, when I got the seeds gathered, a few other things kind of found their way into the box to go out to her. I really just meant to send her the seeds, but when the recipient is a spinner and you happen to find beautiful roving, well, what was I to do?

I don't have pictures because my camera is upstairs in the boiling sauna of our study and I haven't dared venture up there. But I'll include some soon, I promise.

UPDATED pictures:

My felted columbine

Complete package from Tracy

Yarn and felted bowl with shells

The yarn is from Mama Llama and I seem to have lost the label. However, it is the "Twisted Yarn" color, which is exclusive to the Texas shop from which Tracy purchased it. I don't think any of my LYSs have an exclusive color. While small, the color in these shots is fairly accurate. It reminds me a bit of the ocean, with the beach sand and several shades of water. Think of those remote Caribbean islands with the turquoise water. I'm making these socks out of it, and it seems to be handling beautifully.

The bowl is one Tracy felted herself (I really want to do this sometime), and the shells came from Matagorda Beach, which I believe is the one Tracy went to in this post. Just an FYI, sea shells in a little hand-knit/hand-felted bowl makes for a very charming gift.

card and Bluebonnet seeds

I actually can't believe that Tracy chose this particular card to send. I was researching Indian Paintbrush, which is the Wyoming state flower, to see if I could grow it here for a bit of home. Turns out the Paintbrush is a parasitic plant, and the Texas Bluebonnet is frequently a host. This card shows both Paintbrush and bluebonnet. So I'm going to try it next spring. I'll order some Paintbrush seeds now, because they have to be chilled before they'll grow; the instructions seem to be to overwinter the seeds in the fridge the first year, then plant indoors with the host seeds in early spring, and move them outdoors after the frost season. We'll see how that goes. But I'm also going to hold back some bluebonnet seeds and plant them by themselves to see what happens there.