Jeannie Marie & Company

The Snow photos that are everywhere this weekend are delightful, especially since they are far far away!  The whole world isn't covered in snow however.    I took a walk around the yard yesterday and took photos of some of the plants that had flowers on them.  Some I rarely notice so it was especially fun.   This one is wonderful with a cane stem.  It's just starting for the spring season, but it blooms all year around. This one is an odd duck of a plant.  The blooms hang upside down and really aren't pretty unless  photographed from the underside!  It only blooms in winter. This one is all buds.  It's ready to pop into a cluster of sweet little flowers. It currently has zero foliage, the Schefflera next to it crowds out the sun.  I always think it is on it's last legs but for four years it has hung in there.  Never more than two clusters at any time.   Begonias wint...

I used to always feel blue in January...  ...but no longer.  It's sunny here and although cold this week, the weekend promises to be warm and toasty.  Even overnight temps of 25 degrees don't scare me one bit.  So, since January has always felt blue, I'll embrace it.  Even here. In a new way. My knitting is blue.  My unfinished knitting.  It's Pomp a Doddle and is supposed to knit up fast but there is a little problem.  It doesn't pull out of the skein nicely.  I tried to roll it into a ball but began knitting when I realized a ball probably would not unroll well.   Well, the skein is now a tangled mess and will require time to find the end and I'll have to roll from the back end!  The Seafoam Shawl has not progressed as I hoped.  It was to be done by Christmas yet it isn't too much further than this.  I could be blue over it, but I'm not.  I was earlier this month.  I was going to just frog it and use ...