Knitters ahoy! And reading, with junk food for thought

Yesterday was a great knitting group, a full house, with work like this

Beautiful, no? S is a great knitter. Someone pointed out that you could tell who was knitting what, from the color choices which they'd dressed in, too. 

S was wearing an outfit in the warm mellow shades of the foreground hat, M in the blues and greys of the shawl she's working on, and I was in bright green and toned in with the current socks. 

At home, a sleepless night made me glad of junk reading, like this hugely enjoyable box o' gossip

Earlier, in contrasting,  I'd read this really serious examination of the history of monarchy as a concept and whether it has a future, very well written with the inside information of a reporter now free to write what his paper was obliged to suppress at the time. Not gossip, serious consideration of the concepts.

And here's the current book group selection

She wrote the Olive Kitteridge books, and I keep on thinking that's the writer, forgetting the actual writers name. This one promises to be as episodic and provocative and touching as earlier books featuring the main character here,  Lucy Barton. 

Yesterday on the way to the knitting group, I saw a double crested cormorant at the lake, sitting on a fallen tree snag, wings held out to dry in the sun. No place safe to pull over for a picture, but here's the pose

They're fishing birds, whose wings are not waterproof, because they dive and need  to be not too buoyant, or they wouldn't be able to stay under water to hunt. So when they surface,  they have to dry out like this.

They look primitive, like dinosaurs, which I guess they are.

Happy day everyone, today's plans include bringing in the ficus, the nights getting chilly now, sorting out the houseplants with a view to Freecycling duplicates, likewise  a few other household items, and a bit of urgent food shopping. If I get the current jigsaw puzzle completed, nearly there, I'll Freecycle it, share the wealth.

Doing pretty well at the moment, the knitting group being a great timely infusion of good company. 

May all your company be good today!