Snow White... in April

Last weekend I took this picture of a bud on the dogwood tree in my yard. I was so excited by the obvious sign of spring. At the time, it was about 80 degrees outside and I was walking around, surveying the work that the gardeners were doing with the spring clean up in shorts, a t-shirt and my bare feet. I was thinking about how beautiful the dogwood tree would look shortly - a vision in white.

This was not what I had in mind. These are the same dogwood tree buds covered with snow. On Saturday morning I awoke to find a dusting of snow covering our yard. I'm usually a fan of snow but not this time. It's not supposed to snow in April. Certainly not in Virginia.

It was all gone by mid-day but I suspect the damage was done. You may remember me mentioning a little planting I had done last weekend. I was waiting to share it - hoping that the plants would settle in and start to really look pretty before I took a picture for you. I suspect that the snow took the bloom off of my snapdragons and... I forget what the others were but they were pretty before the snow arrived.

I'm not a huge fan of the cold and there was nothing really major that had to get done this weekend so I stayed home. The girls came and went with their friends and hubbo went to a meeting on Saturday but I stayed home and caught up with laundry and played with fiber. I actually finished 2 socks, plied some of my Magic Carpet Ride and spun some Blue Faced Leicester that I call Violet.

Here's the plied yarn still on the niddy noddy. The carpet in my living room seemed a great place to display my Magic Carpet Ride yarn. This skein is hanging to dry at home right now but I can't wait to start knitting with it. It's still not super even but it's much better than earlier spinning and I think that the plying has improved quite a lot. I could really feel the difference as I wound it off onto the niddy noddy. It feels substantial and yarn-like. I love the way the colors change and combine.

I had quite a bit left on one bobbin and it's very even and thin so the plan is to continue it with the rest of the unspun fiber and Navajo Ply that portion. I can't wait to compare the 2 versions of the same fiber. I still think that this will become socks - very cushy socks.