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eye candy friday

This edition of Eye Candy Friday is brought to you by the silly decision to start a 36-exposure roll of film halfway through a day of hiking (when I also had a digital camera with me).  All of the pictures here are from wandering around Philly in the last week of June, trying to use up the roll of film before my hiking companions forgot that I'd taken more pictures. 

I'm also declaring this to be my 007 post for June despite the fact that two of these pictures are actually from July 1st.

I love sidewalk weeds.

eye candy friday: rose of sharon

These photos were taken on my block, on the 3rd.  They're especially appropriate for today, since there's a shape-note sing tonight, as the name reminds me of the song called "Rose of Sharon".  And I suppose they'll have to suffice, in that regard, because I'm going to a concert instead of the sing...  (There are two accessible-to-me shape-note sings every month, perhaps soon to be three.  Mirah hasn't performed in Philly for a few years.  On the other hand, it's amazing how often I don't attend things that occur every month or every week.)

eye candy friday: ice

on my front porch, last Saturday

eye candy saturday

My computer is still not fixed, although I was told it should be ready by Monday.  Work is also crazy-making busy.  So here, a day late, are a couple of photos from last Friday (the 9th), when I took most of the day off to run errands and decompress a bit.

 

These are both pictures of the Schuylkill, frozen over and partially covered with snow, taken from the Walnut Street bridge.  (The ice has since melted at least some, but I haven't crossed the river in days, so I don't know what it looks like now.)

 

eye candy friday

Last Saturday, Jill and Ella braved the cold with their cameras and thereby got me out of lab and into the sunshine to join them.  These are a few of the pictures I took, all in the cemetery near my lab.

more biopond

This is another pic from Wednesday, showing the sunlight.

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My January photo for the Shoot a Dozen Days thingy is from the biopond (this afternoon).  Just a little wintery without being completely frozen, the way this month has been. 

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This was the view out my front window this morning.  Snow!  Enough to stick!  The best part was that there was just barely enough to crunch under my sneakers, but not enough to make it tricky to walk to work.

I played around with kool-aid dyeing again last week.  This is about 3oz of Amy Boogie's wool blend, with several packets of various flavors of kool-aid.  Lesson for next time: grape is really powerful. 

I've also been knitting away on the second fire sock.  Most of the ribbing was knit during the Värttinä (Finnish folk-rock) concert I saw last Thursday--they were excellent, and I'd highly recommend seeing them if you get the chance. 

And that's it for me for today.  Work is really busy, and I haven't had the energy for a lot of fiber stuff, but there'll be fiber night this week, at least. 

another sunset

sunset over West Philadelphia (on Tuesday)

saturday sky, from lab

sunset (around 5pm), from the lab next door to mine.  (click for big)