
Portrait of happier times. It’s astonishing how fast the decades go by.

Portrait of happier times. It’s astonishing how fast the decades go by.
Here is my Sequences Shrug as of today

It’s going pretty well. I am about two-thirds finished and on target to have sufficient yarn. During the long hours staying with my mom, working on this project has provided comfort to me.

Tools for my daily journal.
A parental health crisis has brought me to Ohio for a month. Traveling light, I left my laptop at home. Because of these two facts, updating this blog is awkward and not currently a priority. I am continuing to read the work of those I follow. My ever present knitting gives me comfort.
It’s been a long and eventful two weeks. No arts or crafts were done in the interval. I think I’ll just post some photos of our trip to Alaska.
The Westerdam

Seattle in our wake.

View from veranda

Mendenhall Park from the visitor’s center

https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/tongass/about-forest/offices/?cid=stelprdb5400800
Hubbard glacier

https://www.nps.gov/wrst/planyourvisit/yakutat-and-coast.htm
Beautiful Sitka

More mountains surrounding Sitka. We are on a whale-watching excursion.

Potlatch Park in Ketchikan.

https://www.experienceketchikan.com/native-american-totem-poles-1.html
After returning to Seattle, we rented a car and drove to Olympia. The following day we hiked in Millersylvania State Park, Tumwater, WA

https://www.parks.wa.gov/546/Millersylvania
This trip gave us so many experiences and created beautiful memories. It was well worth waiting three full years to finally go.