Knititude

I'd like to thank...

Susan and Sally for nominating me for the Kreativ Blogger award-- I'm honored!  I'm not sure what it means, or who created it, but nevertheless, I appreciate it, and judging from others who have received it, I'm in good company.  It does come with a few strings:

1.  Copy the award to your site
2.  Link to the person from whom you received the award 
3.  Nominate 7 other bloggers 
4.  Link to the award recipients on your blog 
5.  Leave a message on the blogs you nominate  

Seems to me that if everyone who receives the award nominates 7 other blogs, eventually we'll all get Kreativ-- and hey, why not?  Everyone who blogs is creative to some extent, right?  Although I suppose some blogs would get nominated over and over....

Anyhoo, I don't think I'm going to nominate 7 others, because I'm feeling lazy and I don't like to follow chain-letter-ish rules.  But I do nominate:

1)  Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm:  the cuteness! The cool links!  The lovely yarn!  The great design! 

2)  Marnie MacLean.com:  Original knitting patterns!  Great tutorials!  Fun layout!  Vicarious romps on the beach with adorable dogs!

3) Techknitter:  Ingenious techniques!  Awesome graphics!  Super-hi-res photos!

4) PieKnits:  Yummy knitting patterns!  Yummy recipes!  Don't leave 'til you try a piece o' cherry pie!

5) Through the Loops!:  More great knitting patterns!  No one should be allowed to have this much fun with their teenaged kids!  LOVE that amazing banner photo! 

Cowl with pasties?

I've been trying to decide whether this-- this-- cowl-necked dickie (??) came with the jeweled pasties, or whether some window dresser decided that some big dangly jewels (carefully located) were just what this knit needed!  The entire ensemble is to die for, don't you think?  Oy.

(Actually, I do like the knit itself, senza pasties-- over a down vest, maybe?)

Snow on Palm Trees

(La neve sulle palme)

This is the entrance to one of the public middle schools in Como; the small building in the back that looks a bit like a temple is actually all that remains of a medieval museum which was located on this site, centuries ago.

Quest' e' l'ingresso di una delle scuole medie comasche; il piccolo edificio in fondo che sembra come un tempio e' tutto che rimane dal museo medievale che era qui sul questo sito, qualche secoli fa.