Spring hopes. And dreams

The seed catalog season is here. I, with a few square feet of territory, already crammed with trees, shrubs and groundcover, study the current catalog as seriously as if I had acres of land. 

Note the indoor gloves, telling you the season.  I already plan on flower seeds in containers, since they worked out well before. 

Then outdoors, the lovely reality is at work. First sighting of snowdrops 

I'll take it. Tired day after busy Tuesday, reading and dozing. 

I'm letting other people resist today.

Textiles and Tea, stir fry, Sock and Glove Ministry, Breck

Today's Textiles and Tea featured this weaver

Fourth generation of a family of weavers, based in Oaxaca, Mexico. He works with family members in their home-based weaving and natural dyeing enterprise 

His parents here at work

They create rugs, and are particularly insistent on processes that don't harm the environment, minimal use of electric power, preferring natural to synthetic dyes.

They're now opening a rug showroom, to bring more visibility to their products. They teach basic weaving techniques, too.

He has an engineering degree, and as you see, an eye for color and form. He has also studied the color theories of Josef Albers.

I'm so happy Textiles and Tea has got more into the sources of textile arts, and is showcasing the people whose designs and traditions are often the forerunners of north American weaving.

More humbly, I spun some, more, finished the current gloves

And  more spinning, different spindle because one was full of the current knitting yarn

I'll be using this with, I think, two strands of white cotton.

In other news, stir fry happened, onions, bok choy, scallions, over jasmine rice.

I often forget how stir fry goes so well over rice.

And on the snowdrop front, Breck got back to me, said they don't issue refunds, but here's a voucher in the amount of the purchase, to apply to any other items on their site.  

White Flower Farm issues refunds where necessary, being a reputable place, so I think I'll use this voucher at Breck, then cross them off my list.  Back to White Flower Farm.

And I have to report a landspeed record Freecycle. I put these up this morning about 11am

I checked back around noon, already an excited reply, could they pick up at 1pm? Which they did. Done.  My kind of transaction.

Are you up for a Haggard Hawks puzzle?

Go!!

Happy evening everyone, I hope your day's been productive, or fun, or peaceful, or any permutation thereof.