Macro Monday :: Cloudberry Flowers

Macro Monday :: Nature Notes 

The Cloudberries are in full bloom on the marshes, so hopefully there will be lots of berries to pick in a few months :)

On the Needles :: Zigzagular Socks

What are you knitting and reading this week?
Joining Ginny and Nicole

Knitting: So I couldn't stay away from sock knitting very long ;) To make them a bit more interesting and not just the standard vanilla sock, I casted on a pair of Zigzagular Socks. The yarn is Regia Fluormania. The Saga Eskimo kofte is off the needles - so I just have to be brave and steek it!!

Reading: Still enjoying Drums of Autumn :)

It began at an ancient Scottish stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Dr. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became a legend--a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in the American colonies. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna...
Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the circle of stones and terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...

And my Clivia is blooming :) It's been many years since last time.

Macro Monday :: Lykkekløver or False Shamrock

This is one of my favorite houseplants!

I bought it a few years ago and every winter I am 

afraid it will die due to lack of sunlight during our polar nights.

But every spring it burst with new leaves and flowers like this :)

Macro Monday :: I Heart Macro :: Makro Montag

Macro Monday :: Zucchini Flower

The greenhouse is finally warm enough for my plants.
So today I have been planting among other things some zucchini plants.
One of them already has a big flower bud :)

Macro Monday :: I Heart Macro :: Makro Montag

Snow, Seedlings & Socks

It's been a while since I posted something, but I'm here. Still knitting a lot, but there's also been a lot of

SNOW.
So I've been shoveling more than knitting the last couple of weeks...
Hopefully we've gotten our share of snow for now. I long for spring!

Endre is standing on a hill of snow that's been buildt up by the snow blower.
Perfect for sledding and digging snow caves :)

Before                                            After

We had to do a lot of shoveling on saturday to find our fire pit and benches.

And lunch tastes so much better after some hard work outside.

I've also planted some seeds.

And it only took a week from seeds to seedlings!!
So far the borlotti beans are winning the race ;)

And of course there has been some knitting, although mostly of the mindless type ;)
My Nancy jacket is done, but I need to but some buttons. Eirin's Holmenkollen sweater is also done, I just need to sew in the ends. So there will be some FO post coming :)
This pair of socks are for my sister, who has just as cold feet as I do, so I know they will get a lot of wear.

Ravelry project page
Pattern: 60 sts 2x2 rib and a short row heel
Yarn: 82 g Rauma Fagstrikk #4730 Multi Orange
Needles: 2,75 mm / US 2
Made for: Monica
Size: About an european 37/38
Started: March 23, 2014
Completed: April 3, 2014

Wordless Wednesday :: Chives

Wordless Wednesday :: Outdoor Wednesday

It's been a while

Since I've been writing here... It was not planned, but it felt great with a short break from blogging.
So far this Summer has been a rainy one. I'm not lying if I tell you it has been raining for almost two weeks witout a break. But today the sun is shining and it looks like she's here to stay for a couple of days :) Here's a little of what we've been up to these last weeks :)



Knitting



Demolishing, building and painting - we've knocked down the wall underneat the stairs, made a floor were the stairs down to the cellar was and now we have a much bigger hall. And I have a wall filled with book shelves which I call my library :)



Harvesting - Borage flowers, sugar peas, chives, radish and lettuce



Cloudberry picking

Watching our squirrel kids grow. We haven't seen them for days now, and I'm a bit worried that a cat that has been sneaking around here has scared them away :(

Running throug high grass chasing butterflies

Celebrated 7 :) Can you imagine he is 7 already...

Bogbean :: Bukkeblad

Our plank path over the bog is surrounded by Bogbeans - beautiful!
This little flower seem to multiply more and more each year. 

Firts a tiny pink/purple bud

That become tiny white flowerbuds

Before they opens up into these fluffy white flowers.

I'm here, just being busy

Enjoying the sun

Tending the vegetable garden

Painting pallets.

I've knitted a few rows every now and then too, so I'll stop by to show you a pair of socks soon :)

Pink wildflowers

August is pink/purple in Project Spectrum (flickr link, Ravelry link). So when we were berry picking yesterday I was looking for pink wildflowers. I found some. This is a thistle. When I was little we used to use these as a shaving brush when we played ;) It grew a lot of these near a creak at my grandma's house.

Heather - I love this little plant.

Fireweed. Here in Norway we can see how far Fall is away by looking at how far up the flowers has sprung on the Fireweed. The further up the closer the Fall is... So by the look of this fireweed, Fall must be just around the corner...

Berry picking

Hard to hide that we've been picking blueberries today...

The weather has change and it's a bit chilly with only 10 C these days. The air hasn't got that sharp, crisp smell of fall yet, but I guess it's just around the corner... I look forward to it though as it's my favourite season :) It's great to be out in the forest without all the flies

The forest was full of blueberries, and I came over a path were they was big :)

We picked black crowberries to. I plan to make "saft" from it. It's a juice you mix with water.

No I need to find the energy to clean all the berries so I can start to make "saft" and perhaps some jam tomorrow. I'll freeze the biggest blueberries as they are so we can make pai from it :)

We also came across some indians in the forest :) I think they were hunting bears and wolves.

The next berry to pick is lingonberries. But they need a few weeks before they are ripe.