28.09.2021 This year has been a blur. We managed to get some camping in and one of the first was Cascade River State Park in Lutsen, MN, where the water looks like root beer. It's so beautiful there and I particularly love the hiking trails. Gus did great coming down the "ladder" stairs. Our first day hiking was beautifully sunny, but I have to say I really enjoyed the second day of hiking in the fog.
Since then, we added a few more pins to our MN state park map including Scenic, Whitewater, Split Rock Creek and Blue Mounds. There was also a trip to Ohio using Harvest Host sites along the way including an aviation museum, and a heritage museum in Iowa, two wineries and a farm in Illinois and a farm and private property in Ohio. We recently returned from the Camp-Inn Campout in Wisconsin and it was nice to see familiar faces and meet some new folks.
There was and is lots of fiberwork happening with spindle spinning more colors to use in tapestry weavings, a dive into the Shetland yarn stash for this year's Wool Week hat designed by Wilma Malcolmson.
I went back to plein air painting briefly, but the cool weather did not last long and the bugs came out early this year. We have had a hot and dry summer. Lately, there has been some much-needed rain with cooler temperatures and shorter days. We have a day or so of warmer weather and then it will once again be cool. I am ready for sweater weather. Bring on autumn!🍁
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Cascade Falls
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| The "Ladder" |
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| Spinning little skeins |
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| For little tapestries. Perfect projects for deck time under the umbrella. |
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Wool Week 2021 hat. My color way was inspired by my favorite outfit,
blue jeans and a white tee. |
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| Houndstooth fabric on the home loom, Buttercup |
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Knitting a Strange Brew cardigan. As of this writing, I still have to cut the steek,
finish the bands and block...buttons. Must choose the perfect buttons. |
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| Springtime plein air painting in progress. |
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