sunday walk on the high line

 it was windy and cold today, and very grey. but it still felt like spring . . 

 a very early brown and grey spring.

 it felt wonderful to be on the high line again, admiring the birch trees,

 and not seeing any snow.

new jersey

 fourteenth street . . 

fifteenth street . . 

 later in the day, after a visit with friends, chanda continued to finish up her european geography lesson book work.

 i think she still has the government and economy of italy to write up.

 i made ugali soup again, this time with the green peppers the recipe called for.

 and we brought out the cards we got for christmas for a few rounds of "may i."

korrina worked on a yarn swap gift for a ravelry anime group at the same time. she had decided to make a red kiki bow (from kiki's delivery service). 

the rest of friday

chanda worked on her math today before running off to ballet class . .

and korrina came by for her package from her yarn swap and we sat on stools in the kitchen and ate sopressata and provolone and like the walrus and the carpenter we talked of many things, "of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings, and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings."

all things local swap

i received my all things local swap package yesterday. everything is so wonderful. a beautiful handmade bag from rabecca in rockford, illinois (it is really exquisite!), beautiful local hand dyed yarn from gypsy girl yarns, yummy chocolate and the official rockford red heel socks for a sock monkey. thanks so much rabecca!

the swap package . . !

the package from my swap yarn partner came late this afternoon! c wanted me to open it right away, but we had just arrived home from shopping at the coop and needed to first unpack frozen food bags before they defrosted, produce before it wilted, and chicken before jack could eat it. and then i made her practice her violin! finally as it was getting dark out i said, ok! let's open it! we found two beautiful skeins of purple and pink yarn, pretty buttons and beads, a cute little bear candle, and two very yummy cognac marzipan bars! oh la la! (i think that's my favorite!) c was also very excited about the stationery christine used, as it's her favorite (it is very pretty!) i already have wonderful ideas for what i would like to do with the yarn. i'm thinking of using the duo purple merino for the boneyard shawl by stephen west, and the pink angora silk tweed (it's a beautiful combination. . i love silk and tweed) for ysolda's ishbel. thanks so much, christine, for putting together such a lovely package for me! i especially enjoyed thinking of you all the way in frederiksberg, denmark, putting together personal special samples of your life for me in nyc.

the little candle bear christine sent graced our dinner table last night.