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Leaves!

192Hello Yarnies,

I must share this.  This wonderful, wonderful green.

It is really, really spring.  We have left winter behind us.  I know, we’re weeks into spring, but I’m so heady with it not being winter, that each change is a new revelation.

For instance, my morning bikeride is actually cooler than it was a week ago.  The reason why?  A week ago there were not leaves on the trees.  Now there are, and the shadows cast in the morning don’t help me get any warmer.

I’m actually quite OK with that.

In other news, I’ve got a few things in the works.  Swirl socks are being test-knit, another pattern is in the pipeline, while another one is still in the designing stages.  Plus, I think I’m going to be able to score a dress form over the summer, which will make sizing things SO much easier.
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There’s also a whole bunch of things going on behind the scenes that I can’t really talk about, but just you wait.  As they come to fruition, I’ll keep y’all posted.

Until later,
Jen

First Spring in Metro DC (Or, An Exuse to Post a Bunch of Pictures)

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April 042As you might have gathered by now, I’m a Northerner at heart.  Or as Boyfriend would say, a Yankee.  I grew up always looking forward to Fall.  It’s when school started, and I loved school.  I loved the leaves turning color, I loved the hot summers and the smell of sticky popsicles and suntan lotion fading to the crisp Fall air with the hint of woodfires.  To me, Fall was characterized by going hot cider doughnuts, apple picking, cider in my thermos instead of milk on Fridays, and making leaf crowns.  Fall is prime crafting time.  I could never understand why people might love Spring instead of Fall.

205And then I met the Boyfriend, who couldn’t imagine me liking Fall instead of Spring.  Spring had always been mud for me.  Mud, and weather that was not quite Winter but not really early Summer either.  My first Spring in North Carolina in 2006 was a revelation.

But let me tell you.  North Carolina has nothing on DC when it comes to Spring.  I’ve never seen so many flowering trees in my LIFE.
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201I’ve been taking pictures like crazy, because if I tried to tell anyone back north about this, they’d fall off their seats laughing.  There’s been times where our few flowering trees haven’t started until the beginning of Summer.  Never mind in April.  April we’re still sometimes getting snow.

Yarnies, if you’ve never been to DC in the Spring, you have to come.

Maybe the Boyfriend has something.  I’m not saying I like Spring more than Fall, but maybe, just maybe, I can understand why some people like Spring better than  Fall.

What’s your favorite season?