Garden phenomena and a little hat...

Happy Birthday Em!! I am thinking that 33 is going to be a good year! Here is a special picture for you...a sunflower and a friend!

Has anyone else noticed bees sleeping in their flowers?? I noticed this both in my dahlias and on these echinacea this summer. I can go out at dusk to cut flowers (I know you are supposed to cut them in the morning, but....) and they will "bee" full of these fuzzy fuzzy bees. Isn't that weird??

Here is my finished Peabody hat. It was fun and an easy way to get back in to the knitting groove. My inspiration initially was the Giving Flower blog. She knits the most beautiful things, and it SOOOO prolific. I am in awe.

Peabody is my own pattern, from the olden days, you know, before children. It knit up so fast that I think that I am going to be able to get through all the yarn that I have purchased at garage sales over the past 5 years. Hooray!

I also "love" the fact that all of my garden is getting ripe, just as I prepare to go to Stockholm and Tallinn. I hope that everything will just be done with this week so that I can eat it or get it frozen or preserved. My sweet husband just is not given to picking food out of the garden, eating it yes, but we all have our gifts...

JMB