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Sun´s Out!!!

The Pacific Northwest can arguably be a bit bleak during the rainy winter months.  It seems as if the sun will never come out to play.  But now that we are in the midst of Spring, the sun is out and it is wonderful.  The temperatures are still very mild, 40-70 degrees F or 4-19 C, but with the sun shining it seems so much warmer.

During my morning walk the crows and Western Jays were having a battle over something or about my being around and there was a cacophony of bird cawing going on.  It was great to have an excuse to be outside.  But the weekend was even more fun.

For years it was a challenge to find a weekend when the tulips were out in near perfect display south of here about 1.5 hours and when it was not raining so hard that decent pictures could be taken.  It seems we only managed one weekend in about 13 years.  But this last Easter weekend we hit the jackpot near LaConner, Washington.  This is such eye candy I get excited to reexperience the beauty. Here´s a few pics:

The daffodils were on their last legs, but up against those mountains, such a stunning contrast

Someone is enjoying the view

Just to prove we were on a real farm


Someone has the skill and arm length to take a nice selfie

In addition we travelled on to Seattle and saw the play, Worse than Tigers and a Madeleine Peyroux concert, where she played a 2 hour concert including a couple of my favs and a big hit for her, Don´t Wait too Long as well as her interpretation of the Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love.   Paul selected this concert with me in mind since I particularly enjoy Peyroux.  It was a wonderful weekend.

BTW I said I would update you regarding the latest version of socks.  The yarn is Nova Plus Sock in colour 529 -- Carnival.  This yarn has very short colourways so there is no real need to worry about matching the stripes.  I have someone in mind for this pair and to me the colours will suit this person to a T.  As you can see Carnival #1 is complete and #2 has the ribbing done and I am working my way to the heel.  Again I am using a basic sock pattern from Ann Budd´s book Getting Started Knitting Socks.  The hope is #2 will be done by next weekend that will make three pair of socks in three months, keeping me right on track for 12 pair this year.
The heel is the very typical s1, K1 and I think I like it better than other options.  I know the picture appears blurry, but it isn´t.  That colourway is wicked.
There has been some bead bracelet wrap making as well.  It will be revealed soon.

I just want you to note in each of the photos in this post the sun was shining in full force.  It is so great to have it back!

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