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Apl catching up on some news while we wait
2012 November 4 · 12:29PM · Sunday

Ruby reading about upcoming music shows
2012 November 4 · 12:32PM · Sunday

the girls on a bench
2012 November 4 · 12:32PM · Sunday

Tanya at the arboretum
2012 November 4 · 1:35PM · Sunday

Katy and Tyler chatting
2012 November 4 · 1:37PM · Sunday

Ravenna and C in the spiral
2012 November 4 · 1:40PM · Sunday

tiny shroomies
2012 November 4 · 1:52PM · Sunday

Tanya said “nobody bothered” checking to see if these were edible because they were so tiny. We found a lot of them, though!
Wil-Chris, a kind of holly
2012 November 4 · 2:19PM · Sunday

Chris and I both thought this said “Hex aquifolium” but it says “Ilex”! Bad kerning! Also, Chris thought it was cool that it was called ’Wil-Chris’.
what Wil-Chris looks like
2012 November 4 · 2:19PM · Sunday

kids on the hill
2012 November 4 · 2:20PM · Sunday

fall colors
2012 November 4 · 2:20PM · Sunday

C sitting by himself
2012 November 4 · 2:21PM · Sunday

At first C wanted all the children to sit spread out while they ate their candy, then he decided that everyone should sit together and share.
No, I don’t think C cared what the girls were doing… he just wanted some space. Then Big Boss Ruby decided that everyone should sit separately, so they did. (Of course, once C saw this, he wanted to sit next to Apl.)
Katy and Tyler still chatting
2012 November 4 · 2:24PM · Sunday

That guy knows some interesting stuff!
showing tongue colors
2012 November 4 · 2:25PM · Sunday

Apl’s is purple
2012 November 4 · 2:25PM · Sunday

This one is great at the full size; click it!
Love it!
Tanya looking for mushrooms!
2012 November 4 · 2:26PM · Sunday

Chris in front of the clouds
2012 November 4 · 2:29PM · Sunday

Chris again
2012 November 4 · 2:30PM · Sunday

I particularly like this one.
Tanya and Chris
2012 November 4 · 2:30PM · Sunday

Katy feeling silly
2012 November 4 · 2:33PM · Sunday

I always feel stupidly self-conscious when modelling my knitted items… doesn’t help when Chris says “Don’t do that thing you do when I try to take your picture!”
But… doesn’t it sort of sound helpful, on the surface?
No??
He’s talking about your adorable dimples.
Katy modelling her hat and mitts
2012 November 4 · 2:33PM · Sunday

My stylist should have pointed out that the twist on my hat was twisting wonky! It’s hard to be the model and the stylist.
Katy’s Sideways Grande Cloche
2012 November 4 · 2:34PM · Sunday

Johannes gave me this fabulous yarn last time he was here, thank you so much! I made Sideways Grande Cloche from Boutique Knits. I like it a lot! It’s knit sideways, as the name implies, with the last few inches knit on a smaller needle to draw the fabric in. This makes the hat comfortably slouchy in the back, but pulling it up off the face. Brilliant! The “cable” is just two stips wrapped around each other and sewn down. The book says 3 twists, and I thought I did 3, but it looks different than the book. I guess I count my twists differently. I should have given mine an extra twist because it doesn’t seem quite firm enough (it occassionally comes untwisted slightly).
All in all, a fast satisfying knit!
Apl holding a slug, wearing her Totoro hat
2012 November 4 · 3:16PM · Sunday

Totoro, of course.
what a look!
2012 November 4 · 3:16PM · Sunday

Ruby in the Totoro hat!
2012 November 4 · 3:18PM · Sunday

Every once in a while, I take a photo of Ruby, and only one word comes to mind:
“nerdlet”
Katy’s hat again
2012 November 4 · 3:20PM · Sunday

upside down mushrooms
2012 November 4 · 3:23PM · Sunday

It even seemed like they had gills on top!
field of mushrooms
2012 November 4 · 3:24PM · Sunday

mushroom proliferation
2012 November 4 · 3:25PM · Sunday

There were a ton of these in a big circle around several of the trees in this one area. Thousands!
leaf colors
2012 November 4 · 3:32PM · Sunday

water drops on leaves
2012 November 4 · 3:52PM · Sunday

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2012 November 4 · 2:29PM · Sunday

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2012 November 4 · 2:29PM · Sunday

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2012 November 4 · 2:25PM · Sunday

We went up to the arboretum to look for mushrooms with the Jarviks. We knew it probably wouldn’t be a good haul, because the summer was so dry and most of the shroomies would just be hiding down in the dirt still. We did find a few boletes that we could take home and devour, and a few others that were interesting academically. The kids had a great time running around like maniacs, working off the sugar rush from the last of the Halloween candy.