British Columbia has since the 2010 Winter Olympics used the tagline: Super, Natural British Columbia. From my POV this is totally appropriate. The mountains, the water, the trees, the beaches, the sky, all that natural beauty is impossible to be taken for granted. The summer away made me long for the evergreen, maple and oak trees of my home in B.C. which are an interesting contrast to my city dwelling in Minneapolis.
As it became time to return I started looking forward to the walk I can do just outside my door in British Columbia. There is an inlet to watch, often the smell of cedar in the air from the log processing done close by, and then there is the woods I can slip into and feel as if I am very, very far away from a city of 2.5 million. That 45 minute walk per day gives me plenty of time to think, take in the sights and enjoy nature all wrapped up into one experience.
Recently the weather has become slightly cooler and leaves are becoming fall-like in colour. We don´t get much of the brilliant reds other places get, but today on my walk I vowed to pick up any leaves with red in them. After 45 minutes in trees I found three leaves with red and decided to showcase my latest knitting with them as well as the more traditional goldenrod and autumn brown leaves that were much easier to find.
Don´t these colours just absolutely shout Autumn? Several years ago I bought an array of Rowan Purelife DK Organic Cotton in earth tone colours for something, I don´t remember what now. As the leaves started changing colours I had to add these seasonally appropriate hues to my knitting and thus came up with the idea to make some old-fashioned dish clothes. (The pattern can be found here.) I get two dish clothes out of each 50 gram skein with a bit left over. So I weighed each of the three colours featured here and made one striped cloth as well. It´s the top of the stack below.
Yes, Autumn is in the air here in BC and my home, both outside and in my knitting.
As it became time to return I started looking forward to the walk I can do just outside my door in British Columbia. There is an inlet to watch, often the smell of cedar in the air from the log processing done close by, and then there is the woods I can slip into and feel as if I am very, very far away from a city of 2.5 million. That 45 minute walk per day gives me plenty of time to think, take in the sights and enjoy nature all wrapped up into one experience.
Recently the weather has become slightly cooler and leaves are becoming fall-like in colour. We don´t get much of the brilliant reds other places get, but today on my walk I vowed to pick up any leaves with red in them. After 45 minutes in trees I found three leaves with red and decided to showcase my latest knitting with them as well as the more traditional goldenrod and autumn brown leaves that were much easier to find.
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| My autumn-coloured dish clothes |
Don´t these colours just absolutely shout Autumn? Several years ago I bought an array of Rowan Purelife DK Organic Cotton in earth tone colours for something, I don´t remember what now. As the leaves started changing colours I had to add these seasonally appropriate hues to my knitting and thus came up with the idea to make some old-fashioned dish clothes. (The pattern can be found here.) I get two dish clothes out of each 50 gram skein with a bit left over. So I weighed each of the three colours featured here and made one striped cloth as well. It´s the top of the stack below.
Yes, Autumn is in the air here in BC and my home, both outside and in my knitting.
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