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inside and out

inside and out: celebrating spring

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Inside, homemade chocolate croissants from the neighbors, delivered while still warm and gooey.  Eggs dyed with red cabbgage, turmeric, beets and coffee - and just about every combination thereof.   
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Outside, more new snow.  Melting ice boulders on the shore.  The far-off horn of one of the shipping season's first arrivals into the port.

May the weekend have brought you and yours many signs and much celebrating of this new season.

blues: inside and out

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Outside, steam rises off the deep blue lake.  Heat is all relative when the air temperature is -18 degrees F.  Needless to say I didn't stay outside for long.

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Inside, the blue cable sweater is finished.  For the second time.  I ended up getting help at the local knitting shop, thanks in part to all of the encouraging comments and emails.  Picking up stitches isn't that scary after all.  Even if there are over thirty to pick up...

blues: inside and out

Outside the grasses beckon us to the lake for one of the last days of bare feet.Grasses

Inside I work through the first cable of yet another sweater from this book.   

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Hiker Picnic_2 Outside we stroll and picnic on a new section of the Superior Hiking Trail with the littlest of hikers.

Sister_gift_2Crayon_roll_2Inside (or at least back at home) packages are wrapped for mailing.  The bag is a modified ballerina bag from Celine Dupuy's book, and the crayon roll came to fruition thanks to this great tutorial by Skip To My Lou.

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A sudden trip to the cities brought us to the new library for an afternoon this week.  Outside, stark yet organic landscaping.  LandscaprInside, whimsy at the information desk.Information