Reflections on Jackson Lake

In organizing my photos recently I keep coming across images that bring back so many memories. I plan to blog about lots more of them here mostly to create a record for myself but you (any readers) are welcome to come along.

I took this picture on our last day on the lake last summer. It was such a lovely day without wind so the water was like a mirror. The mountain straight ahead it Mt Moran which is just to the north of Grand Teton. At the base of Mt Moran is a small bay that is peaceful and stunning.That is true especially in the fall when the slopes are blazing with gold, orange and red.

That day it was just Jim and I taking the boat out one last time before taking it from the buoy we kept it on and hauling it home to be stored for the winter. It was a day of gratitude for the weather and for Jim's great recovery from his heart attack. Jackson Lake is a place very dear to me and if you ever get a chance to explore it do so and I think you will find yourself falling in love like I did.

Jackson Lake, Grand Teton National Park 2017

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Art in Mazatlan

One thing I was enthralled by in Mazatlan during our single day there on the cruise was the amount of art everywhere you looked. It was on the sides of buildings, sculptures along sidewalks and of course in shops. I saw these figures in a parking area close to the cruise ship port. I found them fascinating.

Come on over to the blog and click on this picture to zoom in and see the details.

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 Once long ago I made a ladder yarn shawl. It was the first time I had ever made this pattern and it turned out big, very big. It would be the perfect size for and 8 foot tall person. So over time I found other things to do with it. It has, at one time or another, been a mantle scarf at a fireplace, a dining room curtain and currently it is a second layer over a shower curtain in a guest bath. If you click to enlarge the picture you can see that is has lots of pretty colors in it including a soft yellow along with pinks and orange and a frosty aqua.

Not wanting a pink bathroom or orange or aqua the aforementioned yellow led me to a search for yellow bath rugs. I already have some yellow towels so the search was on to complete the look in my head. I had no luck finding anything I liked. Being in need of more projects to get done or put off like I always do I decided to dig up my old puff stitch rug pattern. The problem? I couldn't find the pattern but I had made it before. So after buying some lemon yellow Red Heart yarn cause that stuff wears like iron and playing with a couple hook sizes and beginning a couple times and frogging I was on my way. I came up with a long rug to go in front of the sink and a hexagon to step onto getting out of the tub.

Next for this bathroom? I want some decor for the walls and I have some crafty ideas in mind. If I get them made I'll post here later.



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Wednesday not Wordless

Taken on a day that we first got up close and personal with bison in Jackson in 2011. We were safely watching from inside a vehicle. I recently moved to this open air natural zoo and was in love and in awe. The animals, the mountains, the lakes and waterways, I love it all.

I was going to make this wordles and failed.

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Over the Weekend

I was given a couple dozen Reader's Digest books. I have lined the up on a shelf to be my bedtime reading for the next little or probably long while. I keep you informed here about progress and recording it for my own satisfaction.

When I was a kid these were some of the best books I ever read. That was at a time when I was moving from children's books to adult novels and biographies. A kind neighbor subscribed to receive the Reader's Digest volumes and let me borrow them. The first time I read "Roots" by Alex Haley it was the condensed version in one of these volumes. That was years before the miniseries came to television.

Anyway I recently posted about reading "Lake News" by Barbara Delinsky. Over the weekend on Sunday and then on Monday I read the other three books in this volume which is #6 from 1999.

Jeffery Deaver's "The Devil's Teardrop" keep surprising me with plot twists right up until the end. Nicholas Sparks wrote another tearjerker with "A Walk to Remember". The last story was "Thunderhead" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It was a great story about a mysterious hidden city in the Southwest.

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Lake News by Barbara Delinsky

Compared to From Here to Eternity this was a quick and enjoyable read. The outcome of happily ever after was predictable but that is not always a bad thing, is it? I was interested in how the childish views of parents were changed as adult children interacted with their parents in difficult times.

The main story involved misinformation in print media. How fitting today. I read a lot of news and bias is easy to spot but does bias mean untruth? Sometimes yes and sometimes no.Facts are facts and digging down to them through all the noise on television and online is so hard. I say don't give up, just keep reading. Lily ( the character in the book ) didn't give up. She got to know her mother, she got an apology, she got the boy, she got happily ever after.

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From Here to Eternity by James Jones

I was given a copy of "From Here to Eternity" by a friend and have been reading it over the last month or so. At different times I read passages to Jim. He spent 20 years in the Navy and found parallels between shipboard life in the Navy and barracks life in the Army. I don't know about the movie, I've never seen it, but I am sure it doesn't come close to the in depth lives exposed in the story found in the pages of a ragged 60 year old copy. Alcohol, punishment, loneliness in a crowd, shallow relationships that are easily walked away from, living in the moment or rather living on paydays and then enduring the tedium until the next one.

The story takes place in peace time Hawaii and ends in the first days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. There are no happy endings here but life does go on.

The linked picture below is through Amazon and I get a little bit if you click and then make a purchase. Not much but you might help me knit a hat or two and I say thanks.




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