june gris

early summer. may grey never really happened, but instead we are enjoying june gloom (june grey, gris i say!). our heat wave was replaced with dense fog. fog that has ebbed and flowed, rolling in and out different times of the day, cooling down the sea and the shore. if i'm lucky i get out as early as i can, at first light. sometimes the fog is like a giant curtain, just like in narnia, you have to pass through it to get to where you want to go, either to home or to the beach. i love being enveloped in it where ever it is.

i've been working lately and making small preparations for my summer trip. (i am so sorry if i'm talking about this too much!) i have to share just one thing this post. while demonstrating to chuck how i would pack my carry on, he asked 'where will your knitting go?' aww so sweet! do not worry honey, there is room!

around the house, a project that's needed attention, are photos. i have one million photographs per child. and then there are the travel photos and knitting photos and pet photos and just because photos. many many photos. (this does not include digital files,these are all physical photographs i'm sorting right now). i think i've finally figured a way to organize them, and have been chipping away, seeing the end in sight. yay! following are photos that were sitting undeveloped in one of my vintage (thrift shop) cameras. finally got all the orphaned rolls done and sorted. except for the first one, that is an iphone photo (and oh i have a LOT of those too! more sorting...)   :)

these were taken with a (very old) canon ae-1 and a new to me vintage pentax. if you are on instagram you may have seen one or two already. yes i succumbed. but back to the cameras, oh how i love this pentax. i ordered film for it to bring on my trip, i hope it will help in capturing a tiny bit of shetland magic. i've finished my dress, the bressay. hopefully it will be photographed soon. thank you so much for the kind words for the hap shawl. oh my goodness that was a fun pattern to make, if you would like an easy lovely shawl ~ blanket i can't recommend the hansel enough. with a baby on the way in our family, i get to make another!

 my husband's commute

chuck came home after working a week out at the islands, i surprised him and met his boat. :) :) :) we went to yummy thai food and got all caught up on the weeks activities (i worked i knit i hiked. he worked he hiked, he did not knit, nor will he ever. darn!). here is an article he wrote on california's channel island national park for american forest magazine. if you look closely you might see me in there. hee hee :)

have a wonderful week friends!

TO THE WEDDING

 THE DAY BEFORE

 WE'VE ARRIVED!

STOUT'S ISLAND LODGE, WISCONSIN

PREPARATIONS HAVE BEGUN!

A CABIN NAMED CLARA

 GIRLS OF MINE

 GOING TO REHEARSAL DINNER

BACK TO THE ISLAND, TILL TOMORROW...

THE WEDDING DAY

EVIDENCE OF FAIRIES (AND FROGS) ON THIS ENCHANTED ISLAND

(SHH...MADE BY A CERTAIN DARLING GRANDDAUGHTER)

GETTING READY

NEWLY WED

(OUR WEDDING DAY SHAWLS)

A PERFECT END TO THE DAY

THE FOLLOWING MORNING, RISING EARLY, WE'LL BE LEAVING SOON, BUT FIRST...

WE DRINK COFFEE AT THE WATER'S EDGE

AND PEACEFULLY KNIT ONE LAST TIME...

GOODBYE STOUT'S ISLAND, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

ON THE WAY BACK TO THE AIRPORT, WE TOOK CORN FIELD PHOTOS

TAG! YOUR TURN!

BEAUTIFUL WISCONSIN AND MINNESOTA

FOR THE CHILDREN (HANNAH AND THE GRANDS), THE MALL OF AMERICA

MY THRILLED GRANDCHILDREN!

TO THE NEWLYWEDS
congratulations my beautiful daughter and new son (in law). i didn't take any photographs of the ceremony, thank goodness there was a professional photographer, since i did spend the entire time in tears.
you chose the perfect place to wed, on this island of happy days. i'm wishing you a lifetime of joyful happy days ahead and all the love your hearts can hold. i love you, mom.

 MR. & MRS. Z

THANK YOU DEAR FRIENDS AND FAMILY FOR SHARING THIS MOST 

SPECIAL TIME WITH US!

XXXXX lori